On these drawings I must observe, that his drawing of the Cinnamon of Ceylon agrees with no one specimen in the British Museum; and scarcely is one leaf to be found of the shape, which he gives. The first figure, which I shall produce, is a drawing which I procured from the ingenious Mr. Ehret in the year 1754: which, as I am informed by Mr. Empson, was from a specimen, given to Mr. Ehret by him in that year, of the Cinnamon of Ceylon. _See Fig._ 1. 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. _Fig._ 11. The flower of the first specimen. _Fig._ 12. In the rudiment of the seed before formed, in the state given in Burman’s first drawing. _Note_, It is to be observed also, that the specimens of the Cinnamon of Ceylon are probably of cultivated plants. From all these specimens it plainly appears, that the distinction of _foliis ovatis & lanceolatis_ does not appear well founded. But were it otherwise, and that the leaves of the plants differed, it would by no means be a proof of any material difference in the nature or quality of the plants; as is well known to persons conversant in natural history.