DRUGS. 



Cinnamomum nitidum. Blume. 

 Cinnamomum Tamala. AW*. 



Linn. Syst. Enneandria Monogynia. 



The leaf, Folia Malabathri, F. Talamapathri, F. Indi. 



Vernacular. Tamalaputra, Sans. Putruj (bark), Sadrus, Hind. 

 Tej-pat, Beng. Cadegi-hindi, Arab. 



Habitat. C. nitidum, India, Ceylon, Java. C. Tamala, India. 



Remarks. Supposed to be the Folia malabathri of the ancients de- 

 scribed by Dioscorides and Pliny, but pan (Piper betel} has also been 

 said to be this article, C. nitidum above is the same as Laurus Mala- 

 bathrica, Rox. and C. eucalyptoides, Nees ; and must not be confounded 

 with C. nitidum, Nees, or true Cinnamon tree. 



Cinnamomum zeylanicum. Nees. 



Linn. Syst. Enneandria Monogynia. 



The bark, Cinnamon. 



Vernacular. Barasita, Sans. Dalchinee, Hind., Beng., Dec. Ka- 

 tukarua, Mai. Karruwa, Tarn. Sanalinga, Tel. Kurunda, 

 Rassu-coronde, Cacin-nama, Cey. Darchini, Pers. Theet-kya- 

 boh, Burmah. Caymanis, Malaya. Kinman t Hebrew. Akimoona, 

 Yonanee. 



Habitat. The Troglodyte country. Cultivated in Ceylon and Java. 



Remarks. Most assuredly included under the head of KivvdpafMov by 

 Dioscorides. It is not to be doubted also that it is the Xylocinnamum of 

 Pliny, Lib. xii. ch. 42; although he probably confounds some other 

 aromatic with Cinnamon when speaking of it in ch. 63 of the same book. 

 Cinnamon is before this, however, mentioned in the Bible (Exodus xxx. 

 ver. 23), and by Hippocrates and Herodotus (Bk. iii. ck. 1 11). No doubt 

 by all the ancients, as yet by the moderns, Cinnamon was never very care- 

 fully distinguished from Cassia-lignea ; yet the ancients speak both of 

 Cinnamon and Cassia, and not a little remarkable is it, that in the passage, 

 from Herodotus above noticed, Cinnamon and Cassia are separately men- 

 tioned within a line of each other. In the English version of the Bible 

 Cassia is also mentioned in the verse succeeding that in which Cinnamon 

 occurs in Exod. xxx. But some may regard this as a mere coincidence, 

 the Hebrew word kiddeh in verse 2*4 being, as before stated, rendered by 

 ipis in the Septuagint, although St. Jerome (Calmet) and Sprengel trans- 

 late it Cassiai In Psalm xlv. ver. 8 the word, however, occurs in the 

 Septuagint version 2/iupra, /cat a-raxr?;, KOL Kcuna; stacte here too being 

 thought to mean not the best myrrh but eagle-wood. It is strange that 

 both Herodotus when writing of Cassia, and Pliny of Cinnamon, have been 

 thought to refer to Nutmeg, but on no other ground than because in 

 the eyes of their critics Cassia-lignea is not sufficiently pronounced. 

 The same reasoning would be good for thistles or figs. The habitat of 

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