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when Miers described it and classed it in the small genus 

 Cinnamodendron, which is nearly allied to the genus Canella. It 

 flourishes in the mountainous woods of Saint-Thomas-en- Vallee 

 and Saint John. 



It is remarkable that this tree should ever have been confounded 

 with the Canella alba, from which it differs not only in the form 

 of its leaves, but also in the disposition of its flowers, they being 

 axillary, while those of Canella edha are terminal. It is described 

 and figured in Bentley and Trimens Med. Plants, t. 27. 



The bark of Cinnamodendron corticosum has been 

 imported as "Winter's bark and mixed with Ceinella alba, which 

 it resembles both in colour and taste, but is of darker reddish- 

 brown colour on both surfaces, and the inner surface is much more 

 fibrous and rough ; also, it contains tannin. A decoction of it is 

 blackened by ferric chloride, a reaction which distinguishes it from 

 Canella. It is distinguished from Drimys (the true Winter's bark) 

 by its decoction being turned intensely purple by tincture of iodine, 

 a reaction which a decoction of true Winter's bark is not 

 subject to. 



Canella de Cheiro. It may be opportune in this place to 

 remark that this name is applied to a plant of very different 

 character to any of the above-mentioned, viz., the Oreodaphne 

 opifera, Xees (Syn. Ocotea opifera, Martins), belonging to the 

 Natural Order Lauracece, a large tree found on the Orinoco, 

 yielding an abundance of volatile oil from incisions made into its 

 trunk. Another essential oil is also obtained from its fruits by 

 distillation ; this is very limpid, of a pale sherry colour, of 

 aromatic, acrid taste, and an odour resembling a mixture of old 

 oil of orange-peel and oil of rosemary. The leaves of this tree are 

 oblong, cuspidate, tapering into the petiole, silky on the outer side. 

 The panicles are compact, divaricating, silky. 



Oreodaphne cupularis, Nees, Laurin. 438 (Syn. Laurus 

 cupularis, Lam. Enc. iii., 447; 111. gen., t. 321; "Bois de Canelle," 

 Aubl. Guian., i., p. 363), is a very large tree found in Bourbon and 

 Madagascar, producing a very strongly-scented wood. It is 

 called the " Cinnamon of the Isle of France," also " Mauritius 

 Cinnamon." Its leaves are ovate-elliptical, acute at each end 

 (sometimes blunt at the apex), ending in a channelled stalk, 



