This agrees in every thing with the drawing of the Cinnamon of Malabar in the Hort. Malab. fig. 54. fol. 107. and there called Carua; except that it wants the fruit: but that defect is supplied by Mr. Ray’s description of the Cinnamon of Ceylon above mentioned. See fig. of the fruit, Fig. [2.]
In the figure in the Hort. Malabar. it may be observed, that the nerves do not go quite to the bottom of the leaf. But this is merely accidental, as will appear by the leaves of the same plant brought from Sumatra, which I shall produce; in which, part of the leaves have veins going quite to the bottom, and united there, and the others not so. See Fig. [3.]
The next drawing I shall produce contains that of the leaves of the Cinnamon plant, from specimens in the British Museum.
Fig. [4]. A specimen, with the flower, from the collection of Mr. Courteen, who lived long in Ceylon. These leaves were more pointed, but were broke at the end.
Fig. [5]. A whole leaf, with its point, in the same collection, growing on a branch, on which are the rudiments of the fruit.
Fig. [6]. A leaf in Plukenet’s specimens.
Fig. [7]. Another leaf of the same collection, and of the same plant.
Fig. [8]. A leaf of a large specimen from Boerhaave’s collection.
Fig. [9]. Another leaf on the same branch.
Fig. [10]. A specimen from Petiver’s collection. The points of the leaves are broken off.