108 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



Cudrania triloba, Hance. 



China. The leaves of this shrub serve as food for silkworms 

 according to Mr. F. B. Forbes. 



Cuminum Cyminum, Linne". 



North- Africa. The fruits of this annual herb are known as Cumin, 

 and used for certain condiments, as also in medicine. Cuminum His- 

 panicum (Merat) is similar. Essential oil peculiar. 



Cupania sapida, Cambessedes. (Blighla sapida, Koenig. ) 



Western tropical Africa. A tree, to 30 feet high, if not sometimes 

 higher. Flowers so fragrant as to be worth distilling. Succulent 

 portion of the fruit eatable, improved by frying. This Cupania may 

 endure slight frost as some of its congeners. 



Cupressus Benthami, Endlicher. 



Mexico, at elevations from 5,000 to 7,000 feet. A beautiful tree, 

 reaching 60 feet in height. The wood is fine-grained and exceedingly 

 durable. Rate of growth at Port Phillip as much as 30 feet in height 

 within 15 years. Professor C. Koch deems it identical with C. 

 thurifera. 



Cupressus fragrans, Kellogg. 



The Ginger-Pine or Oregon-Cedar. California. A tree, reaching 

 150 feet in height, with a clear trunk for 70 feet and a stem-diameter 

 reaching 6 feet. Wood abounding in aromatic oil (J. Hoopes). 



Cupressus funebris, Endlicher. 



Thibet. The Weeping Cypress. Attains a height of 90 feet. One 

 of the most eligible trees for cemeteries; can be grown from the low- 

 lands of India to 7,000 feet or even higher. 



Cupressus La WSOniana, Murray. (Chamcecyparis Lawsoniana, Parlatore.) 

 Northern California. This splendid red-flowered Cypress grows to 

 100 feet in height, with a stem to 2 feet in diameter, and furnishes a 

 valuable timber for building purposes, it being clear, easily worked, 

 free from knots, elastic and very durable (Sargent); it is however to 

 be avoided for cabinet work on account of the soft and coloring resin 

 permeating it (Dr. Kellogg). Hardy to lat. 61 15' in Norway 

 (Schuebeler). 



Cupressus Lindleyi, Klotzch. 



On the mountains of Mexico. A stately Cypress, reaching a height 

 of 120 feet. It supplies an excellent timber. Prof. C. Koch points 

 out the very close affinity of this species to C. thurifera, and restores 

 its older name C. Coulteri (Forbes), suggesting that this cypress may 

 be derived from C. pendula (PHeritier), which so long was termed 

 inaptly C. Lusitanica. 



Cupressus macrocarpa, Hartweg.* (C. Lambertiana, Gordon.) 



California, from Monterey to Noyo, in the granite- as well as sand- 

 stone-formation; sometimes in Sphagnum-moors. This beautiful and 



