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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 



Caly ca nth.ua continued. 



FIG. 332. FLOWERING BRANCH OF CALYCANTHUS FLORIDUS. 



C. glauous (glaucous).* f~ lurid purple, not strongly scented. 

 May. 1. ovate-lanceolate, acuminated, glaucous and pubescent 

 beneath, h. 4ft. to 6ft. Carolina, 1726. SYN. C. fertile. (B. R. 

 404.) C. ollongifolius is a variety with ovate-lanceolate elongated 

 leaves. a <^. A 



CALYCIFORM. Formed like a calyx. 

 CALYCINE. Of, or belonging to, the calyx. 



CALYCOPHYLLUM (from Jcalyx, a calyx, and 

 phyllon, a leaf ; in allusion to one of the teeth of the calyx 

 being expanded into a large petiolate coloured leaf). OED. 

 RubiaceoB. Stove evergreen shrubs, requiring a compost of 

 loam, peat, and a little sand and charcoal. Cuttings of 

 half ripe shoots will root in sand if placed tinder a bell 

 glass, in bottom heat. 



C. candidissimum (whitest).* /., corolla white, campanulate, 

 with a bearded throat, three together, the middle one bearing a 



rtiolate leaf, but the two lateral ones naked ; corymbs terminal, 

 ovate, bluntly acuminated, 2in. to Sin. long. A. 



30ft. Cul 



CALYCOTOME (from kalyx, kalykos, calyx, and tome, 

 a section; lips of calyx fall off). ORD. Legumvnosce. A 

 small genus of hardy, divaricately-branched, spiny shrubs 

 formerly included as a section of Cytisus. Flowers yello 

 disposed in short branched leafy fasicles. For culture 

 see Cytisus. 

 C. spinosa (spiny), /.yellow. June and July. L, leaflets obovate 



oblong. Branches angular, spiny. A. 5ft. to 6ft. Genoa, Cor 



sica, Ac., 1846. (B. B. 55.) 



CALYCULATE. Having bracts so placed as to 

 resemble an external or additional calyx. 

 CALYMMODON. See Folypodinm. 



CALYPSO (from the beautiful nymph, Calypso, or 

 from Greek kalypto, to conceal ; in reference to its place 

 of growth). ORD. Orchidece. An elegant terrestrial 

 monotypic genus. It thrives well in half-shady spots on 

 the margins of a rock garden or artificial bog, in a light, 

 moist, vegetable soil, composed of peat, leaf soil, and 

 sand, mulched with cocoa-nut fibre refuse in 

 winter. Propagated by offsets. 

 C. boreaUs (Northern).* /. solitary, delicate rose and 

 brown, with a yellow crest on the lip ; labellum longer 

 than the sepals, the lateral lobes cohering in their 

 upper part over the saccate central one, which is 

 usually bifid at the tip, resembling those of a Cypri- 

 pedium. Summer. I. solitary, thin, many-nerved, 

 ovate or cordate. Stems usually thickening into pseudo- 

 bulbs. A. 4in. High latitudes of Northern hemisphere, 

 1820. (B. M. 2763.) 



CALYFTRA. Literally an extinguisher; ap- 

 plied to the hood which covers the theca in mosses. 

 CALYPTRANTHES (from kalyptra, a 

 covering, and anthos, a flower ; in allusion to the 

 operculum of the flower). ORD. Myrtacece. Strong- 

 growing stove evergreen shrubs or small trees. 

 Peduncles axillary, many-flowered. Leaves feather- 

 veined. They are of easy culture, in a compost 

 of loam and peat, and may be propagated by 

 layers, or by cuttings, placed in heat. 

 C. Chytraculia (Chytraculia). fl. white, small, glome- 

 rate ; peduncles axillary and terminal, trichotomous, 

 panicled, and are, as well as the flowers, clothed with 

 rufous velvety down. March. I. ovate, attenuated at 

 the apex, stiffish, glabrous. A. 10ft. Jamaica, 1778. 

 (N. S. 1, 26.) 



Uhite, on short pedicels ; 

 s, many-flowered. May 

 svate, "obtuse, stiff. A. 10ft. to 12ft. Jamaica, 



C. Syzygium (Syzygium). /. 

 peduncles axillary, trichotomou 



FIG. 333. FLOWERING BRANCH OF CALYCANTHUS L^EVIGATUS. 



C. leevigatns (smooth-leaved).* fl. lurid purple. May. I. oblong, 

 thin, either blunt or taper-pointed, bright gre 



or nearly so, on both sides, 



. 



ted, bright green, and glabrous, 

 rather pale beneath. Branches 



C.^macropliyllus (large-leaved). A garden synonym of C. oca- 



C. occldentalls (Western).* n. brick-red, sweet-scented, 3in. to 

 4m. across, each petal about 2in. long and iin. broad. June to 

 October. I. oblong or ovate-cordate, acuminate slightly pubes- 

 cent on the veins only beneath, h. 6ft. to 12ft. CaltforniaT 1831. 

 In California, this is called the Sweet-scented Shrub. SYN. 

 C. macrophyUus, of gardens. (B. M. 4808. 



CAJ.YCITLOKJE. A sub- division of dicotyledonous 

 plants, having the stamens inserted on the calyx or disk. 



to July. I. 



1779. 



CALYPTRARIA. See Centronia. 

 CALYPTRATE. Resembling an extinguisher. 

 CALYFTRIFORM. Shaped like an extinguisher. 

 CALYPTRION. See Corynostylis. 



CALYFTROCALYX (from kalyptra, an extinguisher, 

 and kalyx, a calyx, in allusion to the form of the outer 

 perianth segments). ORD. Palmece. A monotypic genus 

 of stove palms. For culture, see Calamus. 



C. spicatus (spiked). fl., spadices elongated, spicate, leafy at 

 "ng longiti " 



base ; spathe openi 



ents reduplicate, linear, acuminate, bifld at the apex ; 

 petiole fibrous at the base. Caudex finally smooth, h. 12ft. 



gitudinally. I. terminal, pinnatisect ; 

 icate, linear, acuminate, bifld at the 



Moluccas. SYNS. Areca and Pinanga globosa. 



