558 MEDICAL BOTANY. 



Med. 332 ; C. eucalyptoides, Nees, Wallich, PI. Asiat. ii. 73; Laurus ma- 

 labathrica, Roxburgh, Hort. Cole. 30. 



Inhabits India, Ceylon, Java, &c. This is one of the species which pro- 

 bably furnishes part of the Malabar Cassia, and is the principal source 

 of the Folia malabathri of the older Pharmacologists ; these, however, 

 appear to have consisted of the leaves of several species. They were for- 

 merly much used, but are now obsolete. 



4. C. tamala, Nees. — Branches nearly round ; younger with a rough down. Leaves ob- 

 long-lanceolate, acuminate, acute at the base, smooth, triple-nerved. Midrib with lateral 

 veins at the apex. Panicle somewhat terminal and axillary, divaricate. Calyx campanu- 

 late. Segments obovate, rather sharp-pointed, silky on either side, deciduous belpw the 

 middle. 



Nees, Laurin. 56 ; Nees 1 and Ebermaier, Handbuch, ii. 426 ; Lindley, Fl. 

 Med. 330. 



Indigenous to many parts of India. The leaves are said by Nees and 

 Esenbeck to form part of the Malabathri leaves, but Blume states that he 

 never was able to detect any in the. samples he examined. 



5. C. loureirii, Nees. — Branches compressed-quadrangular, smooth. Leaves somewhat 

 oval, tapering to both ends, acuminate or pointed, minutely scaly beneath, triple-nerved. 

 Midrib with lateral veins below the middle. 



Nees, Laurin, 65 ; Lindley, Fl. Med. 330 ; Laurus cinnamomum, Lou- 

 reiro, Flor. Cochin, i. 305. 



A native of Cochin China and Japan. Lindley states that Cassia buds or 

 Flowers of Cassia are the product of this species, but Royle is of opinion that 

 they are derived from the same source as the Chinese Cinnamon. They are 

 now seldom used. Loureiro says that the middle-sized shoots of this tree 

 furnish a bark superior to the Ceylon Cinnamon ; and Poivre, in corrobora- 

 tion, observes, that a Cinnamon is collected in Cochin China of better quality 

 than any other. 



6. C. culilawan, Blume. — Leaves ovate or lanceolate-oblong, finely acuminate, rather 

 acute at base, smooth, obscurely reticulated beneath, with the lateral veins vanishing at 

 the point. Racemes compound, or rather trichotomous cymes, terminal or axillary, few- 

 flowered. Segments of calyx deciduous below the middle. 



Blume, Rumpkia, 26, t. 9, f. 1 ; Lindley, Fl. Med. 3^0 ; Laurus culi- 

 lawan, Linn. Sp. PI. 530 ; L. culilawang, Nees, Disp. de Oinn. 61. 



This species is found in Amboyna and some other East Indian islands. It 

 affords an aromatic bark, having the odour of cloves, but less pungent and 

 more saccharine, with a bitter and mucilaginous taste. This bark was used 

 in Europe about the close of the 17th century, and was considered to be a 

 useful remedy in cases requiring a carminative and stomachic, as atonic gout, 

 dyspepsia, &c. It was known as " Culilawan Bark," and was at one time 

 much employed, but is now seldom to be met with. 



Blume states that what is sold as Culilawan consists of a mixture of several 

 different barks, but having the same properties ; he enumerates as their origin, 

 C. sintoCj javanicum, and xanthoneuron. The bark of the first of these has 

 been described under the name of" Sintoc,"and Blume states that the second 

 is well deserving of attention, on account of its powerful effects in spasmodic 

 colic and the after-pains of lying-in women. Another bark has been described, 

 of somewhat analogous characters, called " Massoy," and has been attributed 

 to one or more trees of this genus ; but Blume states that it is not the product 



