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these, there are other species of this genus with aromatic 
bark, and that ten varieties are described of both the 
Ceylon and China Cinnamon, it will not appear surprising 
that we are unable to distinguish accurately the Canella, 
Cassia lignea, and Cassia fistula, or achy, sigir, mosylites, 
aphysemon, kitto, dacar, as the varieties of Cassia, nor 
mosylon, xylocinnamomum, xylodes, &c. as those of 
Cinnamon. It is not an accidental coincidence, that both 
ancients andmoderns mention a great variety of each ; but none 
as growing elsewhere than in southern latitudes. Another 
produce of the same family is the Malabathrum leaf of the 
ancients (v. p. 32), which appears to be a corrupted form of 
writing Tamala-patra (Tamala leaf.) This, in Arabic 
works, is described under the name sa<iw7,with malatroon as 
the Greek, and tuj and tej-pat as the Hindee synonymes. 
By the latter names may be obtained every where in the bazars 
of India, the leaves of Cinnamomum Tamala and of 
C. albiflorum ; being as commonly used there as bay-leaves 
are in Europe. Their being brought out of the forests 
stript from the branches, or picked up after they have 
fallen, may have given origin to the fables with which their 
early accounts were accompanied. 
These leaves having frequently been described simply as 
Folium or Folium indicum; some authors have been led (v. 
Bodaeus in Theophr. p. 1035) to suppose, that they might 
be the betelAeai or pan of the Hindoos, Pers. tumbol, 
Ar. tunbol, Sans, tumbolee, the produce of Piper Betle, 
which is extensively cultivated in all the southern parts of 
India. The plant has probably been introduced from some 
of the Tropical Islands (India aquosa of old writers), as no 
botanist has yet found it in a wild state in Continental 
India. Being used by the natives in its fresh state, it is not 
likely to have been an article of commerce to the West. 
So, Cubebs, kubabeh of the Arabs, and kubab-chini of the 
