40 Remarks on the Sequel to the [Jan, 



circumstance, viz., to the branches having the fruit on them, when 

 brought for sale, that Arrian alludes when he describes them by the 

 term i&tiaiMrc\ivwv t or in other words, as being in external appearance, 

 like the early fruit of the vine. The Thinse or Assamese having peeled 

 the branches of the Cassia tree [literally the quills or pipes called Pe- 

 tros] proceeded next to prepare Malabathrum. For this purpose they 

 picked the leaves, and folding them double, they rolled them into small 

 balls and passed a cord or string, made of the fibres of the bark through 



them iTriAeirrov iin.dnr\u)(ravTeS rb. (pvKXa koX o(paiposi§r\ ttoiovvt^s, Sieipovat anb 



Ttav KaAdfxwv foais. These balls, which appear to have consisted each of a 

 single leaf, were made of three sorts, which were designated according 

 to their size, the large, the middle-sized, and the small yiverai 5e yiu-q rpla 



4k [xtv rov /xei^ovos cpvAXov. rb adp6(T<patpou jxaKafiaQpov Aeyopevov. e« 8e rod vtto- 

 dseszpov, rb fxeo-oscpaipoi/, eK 5e fiiKporepov ro ixiKpo<T(r<paipov — a distinction 



which seems to indicate that three varieties or species of the genus Cinna- 

 momum, differing from each other, in the size of the leaf, or in the strength 

 of its aromatic flavor, were used for the preparation of Malabathrum. Dr. 

 Buchanan has described three species of Tejpata, and it is probable that 

 the three kinds of Malabathrum, here referred to, consisted of the Cin- 

 namomum Albinorum, the Cinnamomum Tamala, and the Cinnamomum 

 Zeylanicum.* The term Malabathrum is generallysupposed to be a com- 

 pound of Tamala (one of the Sanscrit names of C. albinorum) an&putra 

 (a leaf) : — the original word Tamalapatra having been corrupted by 

 Greek and Latin writers into fj.aAdfia6poi>, and this again into Malabathrum. 

 Garcias first suggested this as its probable derivation : " Appellant autem 

 Inch, Folium Tamalapatra quam vocem Greeci ad Latini imitantes corrupte 

 Malabathrum nuncuparunt." It has been conjectured by others, that 

 Malabathrum is derived from " Malabar," and the word " bathrum," 

 which is supposed to have been the name given to betel in that province. 

 " Ferunt apud Indos nasci in ea regione quae Malabar dicitur : verna- 

 cula ipsorum lingua bathrum sive bethrum appelari inde Grsecos compo- 

 sitavoce nominasse." (H. Stephani Thesaurus Linguae Grsecae, Vol. IV. 

 1412.) It is very evident, however, that this cannot be regarded as the 

 origin of the term, for it is stated in the Periplus, that the name was 

 given to the article on the confines of Thina where it was obtained, and 



* Dr. Buchanan has described several species of Malabathrum leaf or Tejapatra. 

 (See Trans. Linnean Soc. Vol. XITI. p. 556.) 



