202 PHILIPPINE RESINS, GUMS, AND OILS 
CINNAMON 
The bark of this species is collected and sold as cinnamon of 
commerce. 
Bacon * examined the bark, and reported as follows: 
* *  * The tree is very close to Cinnamomum zeylanicum Nees and 
the bark in appearance, taste, and odor is just like the cinnamon of com- 
merce. Fifty kilos of the ground bark were distilled with steam, yielding 
200 grams of oil of a yellow color and of a strong cinnamon odor and 
taste. 
This probably does not represent by any means all of the oil which it 
is possible to obtain by commercial distillation from this bark, the propor- 
tion being less because of the small amount of material at my disposal. 
The oil had the following properties: Refractive index, NAO" 1.5800; optical 
rotation, Aes specific gravity, pa 0.960. 
Ten grams of the oil gave 9.2 grams of the dry sodium bisulphite com- 
pound of cinnamic aldehyde, corresponding to an aldehyde content of ap- 
proximately 60 per cent. 
This oil does not agree very closely in its physical properties with the 
Ceylon cinnamon oil from C. zeylanicum. 
Cinnamomum mindanaense is usually a small tree, about 10 
meters in height. The leaves are opposite or sub-opposite, smooth, 
leathery, pointed at both ends, and from 7 to 15 centimeters in 
length. The flowers are greenish, about 5 millimeters long, and 
borne on compound inflorescences. The fruits when mature are 
shining steel-blue, 1.25 centimeters long, and 7.5 millimeters in 
width. 
This species is known only from Mindanao, where it is fairly 
abundant in some places. 
Family LEGUMINOSAE 
Genus ACACIA 
ACACIA FARNESIANA Willd. (Fig. 66). CASSIE FLOWER or AROMA. 
CASSIE-FLOWER OIL 
A gum which resembles gum arabic exudes from the bark of 
this tree. The flowers are known commercially as cassie flowers. 
Acacia farnesiana is grown extensively in France for the fra- 
grant perfume obtained from the flowers. The odor of this 
perfume resembles that of violets, but is more intense. Piesse + 
states that cassie perfume is one of those fine odors which are 

* Bacon, R. F., Philippine terpenes and essential oils, IV. Philippine 
Journal of Science, Section A, Volume 5 (1910), page 257. 
+ Piesse, C. H., Art of perfumery, (1891). 
