Abstract
Histological examinations were made on cinnamon and allied barks in the market of Jawa, Indonesia. Barks marketed as"kayu manis"and"manis jangan"have a sweet taste and smell of cinnamaldehyde. Barks commercially designated as"sintok"or"kayu sintok"are pungent and/or astringent. Fourteen samples of such a bark were examined and classified into six types, with one of them further divided into two subtypes. Types A-α and A-β were identified respectively as the Tjibodas type and Padang type of Cinnamomum burmanni BL., and types B and C were identified as the bark of C. cassia PRESL. and C. sintoc BL., respectively. The remaining three types, D, E, and F were not identified.
