CLOVE BARK. 



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and dried; and possess the cinnamon flavour in addition to 

 a most agreeable sweetness. The flowers of the cinnamon 

 are borne in loose terminal bunches or panicles ; they are 

 white in colour, and are succeeded by black berries about the 

 the size of a sloe, the calyx remaining at the bottom ; these 

 calyces are often mixed with the unexpanded flowers for 

 Cassia-buds. According to some authors, the buds of other 

 species of cinnamon, and especially those of C, Loureiri, are 

 afeo dried and sold as Cassia-buds. 



There are several species of cinnamon which yield fragrant 

 aromatic barks, but they do not often occur in commerce, 

 and only in very small quantities ; they are 



The Culilawan Bark, produced by C. Ctdilawan, a native 

 of Amboyna, often called Clove Bark, in consequence of its 

 flavour resembling somewhat that of cloves. It must not 

 be confounded with the Clove Bark of South America, 

 which is not produced by any species of cinnamon. It is 

 in rather thick flat pieces, of a brownish-red colour. Cinna- 

 momum mhrum,, C, Javanicum, C, Siiitoc, and C, xantho- 

 neuron^ also yield barks similar to the Culilawan. 



Clove Baek. — This bark is the produce of BicT/joellium 

 caryopliyllatum, (Nat. Ord. Lanrace^e.) 



A large tree, which, according to Martins, is the finest of 



