duties
4.
The report upon Cassia lignea
of
very great value.
For the first time the
source
of
this important article of
Commerce in the East has been definitely
ascertained.
The copious specernens which
112 Ford has sent have been
car
refully
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it
apparently known that the plant
yielding the Cassia lignea of Cheria was
cultivated for the purpose.
5.
It is remarkable that the Kew Museurn
contains.
no authentic specime no
Centie
of Chinese
Casua ligne a
or of Cassia buds or leaves.
Fluckiger and Hanbury describe the former
·tigated by Professor Oliver and there
no doubt that they
are
correctly
referred to Cinnamomum Cassed. This
嫁
ao
made up into
omall bundleo about a
and a pound en
pound in weight,
foot in length and a
" the pieces of bark being held together with
&
Ja va
where it was
But it was
is the species cultivated by the Dutch in
introduced from China.
not certainly known tell now
that the Java cultivated plant
bando
of
bamboo.
A set of the implemento
and that
vree
grow.
ax
DL
source of Cassia legned in
South China were one and the same
Int Ford in his report
in the preparation of Cassia leynew have
been received from her and have been
exhibited with the dried specimens at the
Linnean
described
by
ao used
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