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“ORDER 116. LAURIN E. Sweet's Hort. Brit. p. 344, 
Tue Laurer Trise. Lind. Nut. syst. p. 29, 
605, CINNAMOMUM. R,. Br. Enneandria Monogynia. 
Said to be derived fromthe Arabic; or perhapsa contraction of China, Amo- 
t 
mum. Gaert. 2. ¢, 92. Tourn. ¢. 367. Lam. t. 321. 
1266. C. Aromaticum. Nees in Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2. p. 74. Wicht’s 
Icon, ¢. 136. Laurus cinnamonum, Bot Rep. t. 596. Persea cassia. Spren- 
gel’s syst. 2, p. 207, Laurus cinnamomum. Bot. Mag, ¢. 2023. Wight’s Icones 
#129. Rox. Flora. 2. p. 295. 
The China Cinnamon tree. In gardens Bombay;—rare. 
C, Zeylanicum, Wight’s Icones. ¢. 123. is cultivated to a great extent 
in Ceylon, for the sake of its aromatic bark so well known in commerce. 
Several species produce it, of different qualities, 
Frequent mention is made of Cinnamon in the Sacred Scriptures, and it 
would appear to have been used as a spice from the earliest ages. 
‘fake thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred 
shekels and of sweet Cinnamon half so much.” (Numbers 30-23,) 
“{- have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and Cinnamon” (Pro- 
verbs 7—1!7.) ‘*Calamusand Cinnamon.” (Song of Solomon 4-14.) 
‘* To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba and the sweet 
cane (Septuagint Cinnanonum) from a far country’ (Jer.6. 20.) 
This is a very doubtful quotation, and ailudes most probably to some of 
the Scitamineous tribe. 
“And Cinnamon and odours and ointment.” (Rev. 13-18.) 
1257. C. Ivers. Nees in Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2. p. 73. Wight’s Icones, 
#. 122. and-é. 180. 
Carua. Rheed. Mal. 1. ¢. 75. Hamilt. in Linn. Trans. 13. p. 555. 
Ohez. Bojevar. Wild Cinnaamon.—A pretty large, and elegant tree, with 
broad lanceolate, three-nerved leaves, which have a strong spicy smell on be- 
ing bruized. It grows along the great rauge of Ghauts, and in the hilly parts 
of the Concans and Malabar, and in ai! probability is the tree whieh furnish 
ed the Cassia of the ancients. The name is said to come from a Hebrew 
word, siguifving a scraping: in allusion to the bark being stript from the 
tree, and used as aspice.— Tie natives do so at this day, and put it in their 
curries &c. Billets from the tree, are,often sold together with other kinds of 
firewood, by the Woodcutters, both here andin Malabar. N. 
A few trees grow in the ravines about Kandalla, but it is not common on 
that part of the Ghauts,. 
Milton makes several allusions to Cussia. 
‘“and now is come 
Into the blissfal field, through groves of myrrh 
And flowering odours, cassia, nard and balm.” 
Paradise Lost, Book 5. 
‘¢ There eternal summer dwells, 
And west winds with musky wing, 
About the cedar’d allies fling 
Nard and cassia’s balmy smells.” 
Comns. 
** Sleen in thy peace that bed of spice, 
And make this place all paradise; 
Let baim and cassia send their scent 
From outthy maiden monument.” 
Herrick’s Dirge of Jeptha, 
