The entire tree contains an aromatic flavor of cinnamon and no part of it is lost, as the entire tree is used for some purpose, every part of it having a distinct flavor. It is impossible to discover the cause or causes by means of which different qualities are produced from the same branch, since the shoots and the same tree are found to yield cinnamon of different qualities. The quality of a cinnamon tree is often determined by the size of the leaves, as well as by tasting the inner bark; the larger the leaf the better bark the tree will afford. The quality of the bark varies very much with local conditions, some being so inferior as to be harvested only for the purpose of adulterations. Two of these inferior varieties are the korahedi and the velli, the latter growing more quickly than any other cinnamon known, being often at two years’ growth four to five inches in girth and eight to ten feet high. It has a very coarse bark and takes its name from sand velli because it grits under the teeth. The bark is often so hard that it will turn the edge of a peeling knife. There are several varieties of cinnamon. Next in order after Ceylon are the following: 1. _Penne or Rosse Kuroondu_ (which signifies honey or sweet cinnamon). 2. _Naya Kuroondu_ (or snake cinnamon). 3. _Kapooru Kuroondu_ (or camphor). 4. _Kabatte Kuroondu_ (or astringent cinnamon). 5. _Sevel Kuroondu_ (or mucilaginous cinnamon). 6. _Dowool Kuroondu_ (flat or drum cinnamon). 7. _Nika Kuroondu_ (or wild cinnamon, whose leaf resembles that of nicaso or vitex negundo). 8. _Mal Kuroondu_ (or bloom or flower cinnamon). 9. _Tompat K._ (or trefoil cinnamon). Only the first four are strictly varieties of the Laurus Cinnamomum, and as the names given are only known by the planters of cinnamon or by the native Sinhalese, I will not refer to them again except by the names known to commerce. The true cinnamon is a native of the Island of Ceylon and it adds sweetness to the breezes which “blow softly o’er Ceylon’s Isle,” and nowhere else has it been found growing so well or so spontaneously. The large trees scattered through the older forests of the interior are every year gorgeous in bloom of every shade of pink from a faint rose to blood red. The Ceylon variety is the best in the world, and the product in 1904 was 9,216 hundreds, valued at $278,430. It grows up six or seven feet, like willows, and the twigs are cut down for exportation; the smaller the twigs the finer the quality.