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Calamintha— continued. 
herbaceous plants, having the following essential cha- 
racters: Calyx two-lipped; stamens diverging; upper lip 
of corolla nearly flat; tube straight. Rather pretty plants, 
with Thyme-like flowers, well suited for furnishing rock 
gardens. They grow in almost any garden soil. Increased 
4 = seeds, cuttings, or divisions of the roots, in spring. 
©. Acinos (Acinos). Basil Thyme. fl. bluish-purple, variegated 
zg with white and dark purple, disposed in whorls, one on “each 
ri fiower-stalk. July and August. l acute, serrate. Stems 
branched, ascending, leafy. A. 6in. England, Annual. SYNS. 
Acinos vulgaris and Thymus Acinos. (Sy. En. B. 1048.) 
C. alpina (alpine). fl. purplish, almost sessile, four to six in a 
whorl, June to September. l. petiolate, roundish or ovate, slightly 
serrated. . bin. S. Europe, 1731. A freely branched, tufted 
plan 
C. grandiflora (large-flowered).* fl. purplish, , 1jin. long, in loose 
racemes; throat much inflated. une tiolate, ovate, 
acute, coarsely toothed, rounded at the base, Zin. to Zin. long. 
Herbaceous stems branched at the base, and decumbent. A. lft. 
C. patavina (Paduan). pale or purplish-red, rather ae. 
a k piilo, ovate, gtn pubescent. A, 6in. to 9in. 
Europe, 1 
_M@ALAMPELIS. See Eccremocarpus. 
CALAMUS (from kalamos, a reed; old Greek name 
used by Theophrastus). ORD. Palmee. An elegant genus of 
stove palms. Flowers small, usually of a rose or greenish 
colour, clustered upon branching spikes, each branch 
having a separate spathe, which is not large enough to 
enclose it. Fruit one-seeded, and covered with smooth, 
shining scales. Leaves pinnate, Stems reed-like, lin. to 
2in. in thickness. When in a young state, these palms 
are most effective as drawing or diningroom decorations ; 
and, when in a more mature condition, they are excellent 
as stove ornaments and for exhibition purposes, They 
are all of slender growth, and of easy culture in a compost 
of equal parts loam and vegetable mould; a copious supply 
of water being needed to keep them in a flourishing state. 
» Propagated by seeds. C. Rotang, C. viminalis, and several 
en: species furnish the canes usually employed in this 
try for the bottoms of chairs, couches, &c. 
s o Faine 
k green, pinnate ; 
Eiaa black 
wing, miniature 
aap 2ft. in le s (yery rough he & pinnate, Sit Sit, to laft. Jong 5 pinne 
light 
side with two rows of hair- pi enpreni petiole E eei nent te Sper 
py the base, dense! errs i armed with long, Java, 
-4 Pa on} beautif species, which Frere a le size. 
(I. Hi 275.) 
C. ciliaris (fringed).* J. pinnate, clothed witha e en of soft 
hair-like bristles ; petioles sheating at the base. erect and 
slender, India, 1869. From the lume-like habit of the leaves, 
it makes a splendid plant for table as well as being 
a beautiful specimen for exhibition. 
Senn (dragon). l 4ft. to 6ft. in length, beautifully arched, 
; pinne 12in. to 18in. lon rrow, slightly penans, 
: green ; petioles EE at Gans, armed with long, flat, 
_ black spines. A. 20ft. to 30ft. India, 1919. A very handsome 
species, Frith a robust pid ms 
sad to, l. ovate in outline, pinnate, when pows bright 
cinnamon ; leaflets pendent, dark green, bearing on the upper side 
a few black hair-like bristles; petioles armed with dark, stout 
spines. Borneo. A very ornamental species. 
Ro (whip-like). 1. 6ft. to 8ft. in length when om! grown, 
pinnate ; pinnæ pendent, about 1ft. in length and lin. in breadth, 
dark green, furnished on the upper side with two rows of long, 
white, hair-like spines; petioles sheathing, copiously armed with 
stout white spines, much swollen at the base, and tipped with 
black, Stem slender, 
C. Hystrix (bristly). l pinnate; petioles spiny. A compact- 
Ree ree very graceful species, 
Calamus—continued. + 
surface with three bristle-bearing ribs; a few er bristles 
at dis: along the midrib Uedereenth ; margins finely and 
Pe. Sy y toothed with small ascending bristles ; petiole chan- 
Jed, tomentose towards the base, bearing three or four solitary 
needle-like spines, about lin. long. India. A rare species, and 
daii as one of the most graceful 
C. Lewisianus (Lewis’s).* L ultimately spreading, 2ft. to 6ft. longs 
pinnate; pinne equidistant, Jin. broad, and from 13in. to 15in. 
ong; veins on the t r surface bristled, under surface smooth ; 
margins rough, with appressed bristles ; petioles white, with a 
broad, sheathing, blackish-brown base, densely armed with long, 
flat, black spines. India, A fine, but somewhat rare, species. 
C. Rotang (Rotang). l. pinnate, from 3ft. to 4ft. in length, 
very gracefully arched; pinne 6in. to 12in. long, less than lin. 
broad ; upper side dark ns with two rows of hair. like spines ; 
petioles and stems armed aay with stout, slightly reversed 
spines. Stems slender. Ind en young, especially, this plant 
is very handsome. 
mtb s).* l. pinnate, arching; pinnæ very nume- 
C. Royleanus ( 
rous, narrow, penden t dep an sig ; petioles wit few spines, dark 
green. North-west Himala 
spectabilis (showy).* "È pinnate witha few pairs of smooth 
linear-lanceolate, three-ribbed leaflets, measuring 6in. to Bin. long ; 
petioles green, furnished with numerous short conical white 
spines, tipped with brown. Malacca. A slender-growing species, 
C. verticillaris (whorled). /. pinnate, with a very ornamental 
plume-like appearance; pinnze long, broad, drooping ; petioles 
with the spines arranged verticillate y- Malacca. This beautiful 
species is Ea M rare. 
L 1ft. waa lon, A morama oval aeons 
‘bin. long, oy” ent green ; ri vine 
f fl en only 3 ea or oar 8 r- Eoen its 
leo long flat white spines. 
ava, 1847. 
_— whi m4 
ender. 
The following are roils but np act | jes: australis, elegans, 
mi ine niger, oblongus, and t ws 
US ferentem pakeme An old name of 
Acorus Calamus (which see). 
CALAMUS ODORATUS. An old name of An- 
dropogon Schenanthus (which see). 
CALANDRINIA (in honour of L. Calandrini, an 
Italian botanist, who lived in the beginning of the 
eighteenth century). ORD. Portulaceew. A rather large 
genus of fleshy, glabrous, annual or perennial, herbaceous 
plants, some fourteen or fifteen species growing in Australia, 
the rest occurring in the New World. Flowers usually 
rose or purple, solitary, or in terminal umbels or racemes. 
Leaves quite entire, radical or alternate. Only four or five 
species are cultivated in this country; these are treated 
as half-hardy annuals—with the exception of C. umbellata, | 
which is best treated as a biennial—and as such they are 
extensively grown in small gardens, with most satisfactory 
results. They should be sown in the spots where they are 
intended to flower. as transplantation, unless performed 
Fic. 315. CALANDRINIA Mewziest, showing Flower and Habit, 
with more than ordinary. care, will considerably check their 
growth or. result in loss. Their flowers only expand 
and, consequently, they are less 
grown than thoy otherwise would be. a S at 
