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Show LAUREL*LEAVED CANELLA. A65 two sorts of canella in the shops, differing from each other in the length andthickness of the quills: they are both the bark of the same tree, the thicker being taken from the trunk, and the thinner from the branches. It was introduced into Europe, according to Clusius, in 1605, and is brought to us rolled up in long quills, or flat pieces, thicker than cinnamon, and both outwardly and inwardly of a whitish colour, lightly inclining to yellow. It isa warm pun. gent aromatic, and in distillation with water it yields a large proportion of a very active volatile oil, of a yellow, or rather reddish colour, and of a sweet odour approaching to that of cinnamon. It must not be confounded with the bark of the Wintera aromatica. MEDICAL USE. Canella alba is sometimes employed, from ten to fifteen grains, where a warm stimulant to the stomachis necessary. In America it is considered to be a powerful antiscorbutic. It is also added as a corrigent to other medicines. a ai LAUREL-LEAVED CA NELLA. CANELLA ALBA, ag Class XT, Dodecandr ia, Order I, Monogyni a. Essent. Gen, Cmar, . Calyx three-lobed: Peta ls five: Anthers sixteen, attached to the pitcherlike nectary, a . DESCRIPTION, HIS tree rises fifty fee t in height, branching only at the top. ueaves ” footstalks, alternate, oblong, very obtuse, Gre,eand thick. FloOwe eno werrs s small, div idi ividi ng ng in j clusters, of a vio i let HISTORY. This is a tall tree, which is ye ry other West India island s, common in Jamaica, and aeThe ecan rs ella is the inte nior bark, freed from the epidermis, eea is thin and rough, and dried “in the shade. There are |