ii 



5G7 



-Ke/. — " Cortex Cinnamomi " in Pharmacograpliia, Fliickiger 

 ; Hanbury, pp. 



Cinnamomiiyn zeylanicum," in Med. Plants, Bentley & Trimen, 



No. 224, 51 pp. " All about Cinnamon," in All about Spices, 



Ferguson, pp. 201-274 (A. M. & J. Ferguson, Colombo, 1889). 



■" Cinnamon Bark from the Gold Coast, in Bull. Imp. Inst. 



V. 1907, p. 184. "Qnnamon Bark Oil," I.e. vi. 1908, pp. 



111-112, from Seychelles. " C innamomum zeylanicum" in 



Commercial Products of India, Watt, pp. 313-316.- " Cinna- 

 mon Bark & Leaves," in BuU. Imp. Inst. viii. 1910. n. 2. samnles 

 from Mauritius.— 



mnamon 



in American Jonrn. Pharmacy, Ixxxiv. 1912, pp. 496-499 with 

 analyses of " Broken China,"' " Ceylon Chips," " Broken Bata- 

 via," "Saigon," " Sej^chelle," " Pakhoi Rolls," " Kwangsi 

 Rolls " and " Coarse Corintjie." " Cinnamon " in Spices, 



..XX 205-226 



it 



Cinnamon : Its History, Botany, Cultivation and Commerce/' 

 illustrated with Plantation Photographs — Cutting, Peeling, Dry- 

 ing and Sorting Cinnamon, in the Chemist and Druggist, March 

 8th, 1913, pp. 391-393 (or pp. 115-117). ^^ Further Investi- 

 gations on the Valued Cinnamon Bark from the Gold Coast/' 



xvii 



Persea, Gaertn. 



Persea gratissima, Gaertn. /. Fruct. iii. (1805), p. 222. 



A tree, 20-30 ft. or more high, trunk 12-18 in. diam. Leaves 

 alternate, coriaceous, oblong. Flowers in panicles. Fruit pear- 

 shaped or more or less globular. ; 3-4 in. long, about 2 in. 

 through, containing one large seed, 



/ZZ.— Sloane, Voy. Jamaica, ii. p. 132, t. 222, f. 2 {Priinifera 

 arbor); Gaertner, Fruct. Sem. PL iii. t. 221; Diet. Sc. Nat. 

 t. 13; Tussac. Ant. iii, t. 3 {Laurus Persea); Bot. Reg. (1829) 

 t. 1258; Desc. Ant. viii. t, 579 (Laurus Persea); Wight, Ic. 

 PI. Ind. or. V. t. 1823 ; Lemaire, Le Jard. FL t. 252 ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 4580; Martins, Fl, Bras. v. pt. 2, t. 105, f. 1 (fruit); 111. 

 Hort. xxxvi. 1889, t. 75 (fruit) ; Agric. Gaz. N. S. Wales ii. 

 Aug. 1891, t. 45; Rev. Hort. 1900, pp. 546 (fl. br., fruit), 566- 

 667; Transv. Agric. Journ. ii. Oct. 1903, t. 22; Freeman, in 

 Journ. Roy. Hort, Soc. xxix. 1904, p. 640, f, 196; Bol. Mus. 

 Paraense, vi, 1909, p. 58 (leaves) ; Cellon, Comm. Cult. Avocado 

 & Mango, pp. 2, 9 (" Trapp '' Avocado ; habit), p. 25 {'' PoUock,'' 

 fruit), p. 29 {'' Trapp," fruit), p. 33 ('' Solano," fruit). 



Ver7iac. names. — Aguacate or Aliuacate (Mexico, Pose) ; . 



Aguacate (Porto Rico, Cook & Collins), — Avocado Pear, Alligator 

 Pear. 



Native of Tropical America and widely spread in the Tropics. 

 In Africa it has been grown in Nigeria — there are specimens of 

 fruit in the Kew Museum collected by Barter on the Niger 

 Expedition (1850) ; the tree was growing at Old Calabar in 



