CARVALHOA 121 



Carpet plant, lonopsidium acaule ; -weed (Am.), Mollugo. 



Carpha Banks et Soland. Cyperaceae (i). 48. temp. 



Carphalea Ju>s. Kubiaceae (i. 2). i Madag. 



Carphephorus Cass. Composi'ae (2). 5 E. U.S. 



Carphobolus Sch-itt= Piptocarpha K. Br. (Comp.) 



Carpnochaete A. Gray. Compositae (2). 4 S.W. U. S., Mex. 



Carpinus L. Betulaceae (i). 21 N. temp., chiefly E. As. C. Betitlus 

 L. Brit, (hornbeam). The young 1. hang downwards as the shoot 

 expands. The ? catkins are term, on long shoots, the cT are them- 

 selves short shoots. In the axil of each scale of the latter are 4 12 

 sta each split almost to the base. No bracteoles are present, so that 

 it is doubtlul huw many rls. of the possible 3 (see fam.) are repies. 

 In the there arc the 2 lat. fls. with all 6 biacieoles. On the top 

 of the 2-loc. ovary is a small P. Fi. a i -seeded nut with a 3-lobed 

 leafy wing on one side, whose centre lobe corresponds to the nract a 

 or /3, the lat. lobes to the bra< teoles a', /3'; these unite and grow large 

 after fert. The timber is little used. 



Carpoceras Link. = Thlaspi Tourn. (Crucif.). 



Carp^detus Foist. Saxiiragai eae (v). i New Zealand. 



Carpodinus R. Br. ex Sabine. Ap<>cyn. (i. i). 50 trop. Afr. Rubber 

 is obtained by grating and boiling from the rhiz. of C. lanceolatus K. 

 Sch. &c. (cf. Clitandra; Bot. Centr. 72, p. 116). 



Carpodiptera Griseb. Til aceae. 6 E Afr , Cuba. 



Carpolobia G. Don. Polygalaceae. 6 trop. W. Air. 



Carpolyza Salisb. (Hessea B^rg.). Amaryllidaceae (i). 4 S. Afr. 



Carponema Eckl. et Zeyh. Cruciferae (i). 4 S. Afr. 



Carpopogon Rox >. = Muruna Adans. (Legum.). 



Carpotroche Endl. Flacourtiaceae (2). 6 trop. Am. 



Carpoxylon H. Wendl. et Diude. 1'almae (iv. i). i New Hebrides. 



Carrichtera Adans. Cruciferae (2). i Medit. 



Carrierea Franch. Flacourtiaceae (4). i China. 



Carrion-flower (Am.), Smilax herbacea L, ; -flowers, fls. with a smell of 

 carrion, visited esp. by carrion-loving flies, Amorphophallus, Araceae, 

 Stapelia, &c. 



Carronia F. Muell. Menispermaceae. i New S. Wales. 



Carrot, Daucns Carola L. 



Carruthersia Seem. Apocynaceae (n. i). 4 Polynes a. 



Carsonia Greene (Cleomn p. p.). Cappaiid. (v). i N. Am. 



Cartagena bark, Cinchona cordifulia Mutis. 



Carteria Small. Orchidaceae (n. 2) i Florida, Bahamas. 



Cartnamus (Tourn.) L. Compositae (u). 25 Medit., Afr., As. C. 

 tinctoruis L. (safflouer) cult, in Asia, &c. ; iis fls. are used in dyeing ; 

 powdered and mixed with talc they form rouge. 



Cartiera Greene (St replant hits p.p.). Cru if (i). 6 N. Am. 



Cartilaginous, firm and tough ; endosp. of Liliaceac. 



Cartonema R. Br. Comm Imaceae. 6 irop. Austr. 



Carum Ru,jp. ex L (Btl. incl. Buniutn L.. f'eti-oseliniini Hoffm.). 

 Umbelliferae (in. 5). 20 sp. ump. and sub-trop. 3 Brit., of which 

 C. Larvi L. is ult. lor its fr. (caraway seeds). 



Caruncle, a small hard aril, Buxact'ae, Euphorbiaceae. 



Carvalhoa K. Schum. Apocynaceae (n. i). 2 E. trop. Afr. 



