98 DICTIONAEY OF POPULAR NAMES CASSIA 



Cassia Lignea. {See Cinnamon.) 



Cassie. {See Acacia Farnesiana.) 



Castor Oil. {See Palma Christi.) 



Catalpa {Catalpa syringcefolia), a small tree of the Trnmpet- 

 flower family (Bignoniaceae), native of North America. It 

 attains a height of 20 to 30 feet, and has opposite, broad, 

 heart-shaped leaves and terminal panicles of white flowers. It 

 is hardy in this country, and ornamental, but not common. 



Catechu, the name of a substance obtained from Acacia 

 Catechu by boiling the chopped wood, straining, and evaporat- 

 ing ; an astringent resinous substance is thus obtained, which is 

 much used for tanning, and also in medicine ; it is likewise 

 obtained from A. SuAiia, and perhaps some other allied species. 



Cattimandoo Gum {Eiq^liorhia Cattimandoo), a tree of the 

 Spurge family (Euphorbiaceae), allied to E. trigona. When 

 young the stems and branches are succulent, becoming woody 

 with age ; it abounds in a milky sap, which when hard partakes 

 of the nature of gutta-percha. 



Cattle - poison Plants of West Australia. — Some years 

 after the settlement of the Swan Eiver Colony, many cattle 

 died apparently from poison ; it was afterwards found that this 

 was caused by their eating the leaves of some native plants 

 which proved to be species of Gastrolobium {G. trilohumj G. 

 dbovatum, and G. spinosum), pretty evergreen shrubs of the Bean 

 family (Leguminosa^), cultivated in the greenhouses at Kew. 



Cauliflower. {See Cabbage.) 



Cebadilla, a name given to the seeds of Asagy^a^a officinalis, 

 a bulbous plant belonging to the Colchicum family (Melan- 

 thaceaj), native of Mexico. From the seeds Veratria is prepared, 

 which is used in neuralgia and rheumatic affections. 



Cedar. — The word Cedar is a name ojiven in different coun- 

 tries to a considerable number of distinct kinds of trees. Origin- 

 ally it was restricted to those of the family Coniferas, but settlers 

 m new countries having found that the wood of trees of other 

 families had a similar appearance and scent to the cedar wood, 

 the trees were thus called Cedars. Cedar is first mentioned in 



