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kilogram, according to quality. The average price of 
cultivated Ann am cassia is only about 80 francs the 
kilogram. 
M. Eberhardt found the tree growing pretty nearly 
all over Indo-China, and a general consensus of opinion 
that Annam cassia was the best. He is doubtful as to 
whether the cultivation would ever pay the European, 
as the age to which it requires to develop before ex- 
ploiting is great. It could, however, be well utilised as 
an accessory cultivation.^ It is very probable from 
these researches that the Chinese cassia, which is not 
known in a truly wild state, is an introduction from 
Annam, or other parts of Indo-China, by the Chinese, 
and that it is a cultivated form of C, ohtusifolium, a 
plant of rather wide distribution. As mentioned in 
dealing with cinnamon, these aromatic barks vary much 
in value according to the strain or variety, and 
according to climate and soil. It might be well worth 
trying if the fine strain of Thank Hoa would not keep 
true under cultivation, and if it could not be cultivated 
in Indo-China by the same method as cinnamon is in 
Ceylon. 
OTHER CASSIA BARKS 
There are several other species of Cinnamon which 
grow wild in the Malay Peninsula and Islands, of which 
the bark is collected by natives and sold in the local 
markets, or used locally. None, however, so far as I 
am aware, are at present cultivated, and indeed even 
yet but little is known as to the origin of some of these 
barks, or the habits of the tree. 
Cinnamomum iners, Eeinw. — Kayu Manis hutan 
(Malay, lit. wild cinnamon) is a very common tree in 
low swampy ground in the Malay Peninsula. It is 
closely allied to, if not actually a form of, the true 
cinnamon, but is much less aromatic. The bark is used 
in curries, but is not much sought after. ^ 
Cinnamomum Kulit Lawan, Bl. — The clove bark, 
^ Journal d' agriculture tropicale, May 1910, p. 158. 
