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3,000 to 7,000, ft. it grows very well at Sibpur, in shady lo- 

 calities, and the tree is worth growing in moist and well shaded 

 localities, as the use of tejpdtd as a spice is almost universal 

 in India. A couple of small trees supply all the tejpdtd 

 needed for one family. The tree should be propagated from 

 seed imported from Sylhet. Seedlings should be grown in 

 seed-beds and in 2 or 3 years, transplanted into fields 10 ft. 

 apart. The leaves can be plucked after the 5th year and the 

 tree goes on yielding for fifty or a hundred years. But as 

 shed leaves are just as aromatic, if not more so than, the 

 green leaves, stripping of green leaves which weakens the 

 trees is not necessary. 



673. The true Cinnamon tree from the inner bark of the 

 twigs of which the valuable spice is obtained, is the Cinnamo- 

 mum Zeylanicum. This also grows at Sibpur. The bark of 

 the twigs roots may be scraped and dried and used instead 

 of Ceylon Cinnamon, which, of course, is the richest in 

 aromatic properties. The oil obtained by distillation from 

 Cinnamon leaves and roots of all kinds is almost identical 

 with clove-oil consisting chiefly of Eugenol or Engenic acid. 

 The roots of C. Zeylanicum, also of C. Tamala and C. Obtusifo- 

 lium, yield some camphor, though the true camphor tree (C. 

 Camphora) is different. 



CHAPTER LXXIL 



OTHER SPICES. 



73 LACK-PEPPER or gol-marich (Piper nigrum). Like pipul 

 (Piper longum) gol-tnarich grows on a creeper and the 

 habits of the two vines are very much like each other. As 

 pipul is grown in many parts of Lower Bengal under the 

 shade of mango, jack and betel-nut trees the growing of got- 



