64 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



Csesalpinia sepiaria, Roxburgh. 



Southern Asia, east to Japan. There often utilized as a hedge- 

 bush. It can advantageously be mixed for hedge-growth with 

 Pterolobiurn lacerans (R. Br.), according to Dr. Cleghorn, It 

 furnishes a red dye-wood. 



Caesalpinia tinctoria, Humboldt. 



Chili. The bark yields a red dye. 



Csesalpinia vesicaria, Linn<$. (G. bijuga, Swartz.) 



West-Indies, on dry savannas and limestone-rocks. This tree 

 furnishes part of the red Fernambuc-wood of commerce, for dye- 

 purposes and select implements. 



Cajanus Indicus, Sprengel.* 



The Catjang ; in Assam called Gelooa-mah, often also Arhar. A 

 shrubby plant of tropical Africa and perhaps Asia, but ascending 

 to 6,000 feet in the extra-tropical latitudes of. the Himalayas. One 

 of the upland-varieties will endure a few degrees of frost (C.B. Clarke). 

 It sustains itself on dry ground, and yields the pulse known as Dhal, 

 Urhur and Congo-Pea. The plant lasts for about three years, attains 

 a height of 15 feet, and has yielded in the richest soil of Egypt 

 4,000 Ibs. of peas to the acre. A crop is obtained in the first year. 

 The seeds can be used as peas in the green state as well as when 

 ripe. Even more utilized in India than Phaseolus radiatus and Cicer 

 arietinum. Some of the tribes of Central Africa use the stem of this 

 shrub in friction with reeds, to strike fire, according to Speke. 

 Several species of Cajanus of the Atylosia-section, partly indigenous 

 to the warmer parts of Australia, might be tested for the sake of the 

 economic value of their seeds. The insect, active in the formation of 

 Lac, lives extensively on the Cajanus, according to Mr. T. D, 

 Brewster of Assam. Silkworms also live on it. 



Cakile maritima, Scopoli. 



Europe, North-Africa, North- and South-America, extra-tropical 

 Australia. Not unimportant for aiding to cover drift-sand, cast up 

 on low sea-shores; not hurt by the spray. Regarded as antiscorbutic^ 

 In Norway hardy to lat. 71 7' (Schuebeler). 



Calamagrostis longifolia, Hooker. 



North- America. Excellent for fixing drift-sand. C. Epigeios 

 (Roth) and C. Halleriana (De Candolle) serve the same 'purpose 

 according to Wessely. 



Calamintha Nepeta, Hoffinansegg. 



From England to the countries around the Mediterranean Sea; 

 fond of limestone-soil. It is strongest in odor among several species, 

 but not of so pleasant a scent as C. incana, Boissier, and C. grandiflora, 

 Moench. 



