i2 4 CARYOPSIS 



Caryopsis, achene with pericarp and testa united, Gramineae. 



Caryopteris Bungi . Verbenaceae (5). 5 Himal. to Japan. 



Caryospermum Blume (PerrotMia p.p. EP.). Celas't. 3 Indomal. 



Caryota L. Palmae (iv. i). 10 Indomal. Stem columnar; 1. bi- 

 piunate. Infl. of a number of equal branches hanging down like a 

 brush. They appear in descending order, the oldest in the ciown, 

 the younger lower down in the axils of the old leaf-sheaths. Fls. in 

 groups of 3, one between two <? . Sta. 9 oo . Cpl- i. Berry. 

 C. urens L. (toddy palm) cult.; it yields palm sugar (see Arenga), 

 sago (-ee Metroxylon), Kitul libre, wood, &c. 



Casasia A. Rich. Kubiaceae (i. 8). 5 W.I. 



Cascara sagrada, Rhannius Purshiana DC. 



Cascarilla \\edd. (Ladenbtrgia p.p. h.P.]. Rubiaceaefi. 4). 208. Am. 

 The bark of some resembles that of Cinchi na (see also Croion), UU 

 the amount of alkaloid is small. 



Cascarilla bark. Croton Camarilla Benn., Cascarillu. 



Cascaronia Grisek Leguminosae (m. 6). i Argentina. 



Casearia Jacq. Flacouniaceae (7) (Samydaceae BH.}. 150 trop. 

 C. pnn-cojc Grisel). (Cuba, trop. S. Am.), W.I. box (useful wood). 



Caseola Xor Inc. sed. Nomen. 



Cashaw (W.I.), Prosopts. 



Cashew nut Anacardium occidentale L. 



Casimirella Has*ler. Icacinaceae. i Paraguay. 



Casimiroa La Llave. Rutaceae (iv). 5 Cent. Am. Ed. fr. 



Casparya Klotzsch = Begonia L. p.p. (Begon.). 



Cassandra D. Don (Lyonia p.p. EP.). Erica . (n. i). i N. temp. 



Cassireep, Mam hot. 



Cassava, Manihot. 



Cassebeera Kaull. =Cheilanthes, Pellaea, &c. (Polypod.). 



Cassebeeria Dennst. (Soneriia Roxb.). Melast. (i). 60 warm As. 



Casselia Nees et Mart. Verbenaceae (i). 6 Brazil, Paraguay. 



Cassia I'oum. ex L. Lrguminosae (n. 5). 4 oo trop. and warm temp, 

 (exc. Eur.). Trees, shrubs and herbs with paripinnale 1. and slips. 

 of various types. El. -|-, but \\iih petals almost equal in size. The 

 sta. may be 10, but the .{ upper ones are usu. reduced to stds. or 

 absent. The anthers usu. open by pores. The 5 upper sta. are 

 generally short, the 2 lower are long and project outwards In many 

 two forms of fl. occur, one in which the lower sta. project to the leit, 

 the other in wh ch they project to the light. It was once thought 

 that \\\\senan(iostyly\va.-, a kind of lieteroMyli->rn, but Loth types oi fl. 

 occur on one plant. It ould appear to be simply a case ol variation 

 in symmetry (cf. Exacum, Saintpaulia). In many sp. a division of 

 labour takes place among the sta. (cf. Heeria); the insect visitors 

 eat the pollen of the short sta. and carry away on their bodies that 

 ot the long. I here is no honey. Fr. often chambered up by -false' 

 sepia rum i g across it outgrowths from the placenta. 



Many cult, for the 1.. which when dried form the drug senna. 

 Alexandrian senna from C. aciitilotia Delile, Italian C. obovata 

 Collad., Arabian C. anguslifolia Vahl. C. Fistula L. (purg ng Cassia, 

 pudding pipe tree) has its setds embedded in laxative pulp. 



Cassia bark, Cinnaniotnum Cassia Blume ; -broom, Cassia. 



