THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 



prized. This is the case with the cinnamon-trees, which 

 are an element of prosperity for places where, like Cey- 

 lon, they are cultivated to a certain extent. 



244. Cinnamon-tree — Lauras Hnnamomuni (Linnreus). 



tions ; they therefore decided to try it on some of the common people in anima 

 ■vili, and it was only after they had cured with the corregidor's bark some poor 

 Spanish beggars, shattei-ed with fever, that the vice-queen took it and was cured. 



" The inhabitants of the town of Lima, being astonished at this, sent a deputa- 

 tion to the convalescent, begging her to send to Loxa for a stock of the bark, a 

 request which was complied with. The countess herself distributed the remedy 

 to all who required it, and from this time it began to be known by the name of 

 the countess's powder. Some months afterwards she gave up the task, handing 

 over what remained to the Jesuit fathers, who, to their praise be it said, continued 

 to give it gi-atuitously, and hence it acquired the name of Jesuits' powder, which 

 it long bore both in America and Europe." 



We may add here that Humboldt and Tee have shaken the confidence felt iu 



