CLASS IX. ORDER I. OR CLASS XXII. ORDER VII. _ENNEANDRIA MONOGYNIA_, or _DIŒCIA POLYANDRIA_. Nine Stamens. One Style, or Male and Female Flowers on different Plants. Stamens more than Seven. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX nullus. Corolla 6-partita, glandulis tribus germen cingentibus. Filamenta interiora glandulifera. Drupa 1-sperma. CUP none. Blossom 6-parted. Glands three, surrounding the germen. Inner filaments bearing glands. Berry dry, one-seeded. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. LAURUS foliis trinerviis ovato-oblongis, nervis versus apicem evanescentibus. _Willdenow, Sp. Pl. vol. 2. p. 477._ LEAVES three nerved, oval-oblong, nerves vanishing towards the point of the leaf. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower spread open, shown from the outer side. 2. The same shown from the inner side. 3. The pointal. * * * * * For the first tolerable figure of the Cinnamon tree we are indebted to Dr. Hermann, Professor of Botany at Leyden who had also the honour of introducing it to Europe, having brought living plants with him, on his return from Ceylon, which vegetated in the Leyden Academy’s garden, and in the gardens of Mynheers Benting and Beverning between two and three years, until a severe winter destroyed them. See his Catalogue of the Plants in the Leyden Garden (Horti Academici Lugduno-Batavi Catalogus), page 130, plates 665 and 666. This fact is the more curious, as Linnæus, describing the Cinnamon from dried specimens in his noble patron Clifford’s collection, fifty years after, speaks of it as a plant forbidden to our shores; which Europe had never seen alive, and could hardly hope to see, or to retain even if it could be procured.