114 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



The bitter bark, particularly that of the root, used therapeutically 

 [Dr. Kellogg]. The plant was introduced first by the writer into 

 Victoria, where it thrives to perfection. 



Cephalotaxus drupacea, Siebold and Zuccarini. 



China and Japan. This splendid Yew attains a height of 60 feet 

 and is very hardy. According to Dr. Masters, the C. Fortune! 

 (Hooker) is merely a variety. A small congener, C. Mannii (J. 

 Hooker), occurs in the Khasia-Mountains. 



Ceratonia Siliqua, Linn.* 



The Carob-Tree, indigenous to the Eastern Mediterranean regions. 

 It attains a height of 50 feet, and resists drought well ; succeeds 

 best on a calcareous subsoil. Wood pale-reddish. The saccharine 

 pods, Algaroba or St. John's Bread, of value for domestic animals ; 

 in some parts of South-Europe even used for human food. The 

 frequent unisexuality of the flowers accounts to some extent for the 

 want of productiveness in fruit of this plant, where but few plants 

 exist and no bees are kept, or this sterility may be traceable to 

 insufficiency of lime or other substance in the soil. Mr. J. S. Edgar 

 noticed the plant to be remarkably fruitful also at the verge of the 

 tropics in East-Australia ; Mr. D. Martin records the same success 

 from the Wimmera, while in very arid regions of Riverina the fruit 

 is abundantly produced even in seasons of drought. Passed through 

 years of severe drought in Central Australia [Rev. H. Kempe]. 

 Instances are on record of a tree having yielded nearly half a ton of 

 pods in a season [Chambers]. The exportation of the pods for 

 cattle-food from Creta is very large. The fruit is used for a medi- 

 cinal syrup, an imitation of chocolate and a liqueur [Wittmack]. In 

 some of the Mediterranean countries horses, stable-cattle and pigs 

 are almost exclusively fed upon the pods. The meat of sheep and 

 pigs is greatly improved in flavor by this food, while its fattening 

 properties are twice those of oil-cake. The pods contain about 66 

 per cent, of sugar and gum. To horses and cattle 6 Ibs. a day are 

 given of the crushed pods, raw or boiled, with or without chaff. The 

 Spanish conquerors took this plant early to Central and South-America. 

 The germination of the seeds, unless taken fresh out of the pods, is 

 accelerated by stirring them for some few minutes in hot water. Mr. 

 T. R. Sim states that the seeds should be planted in situ, as the trees 

 do not thrive when transplanted. The seeds should by geographic 

 explorers be carried through the central regions of Australia, and 

 be sown on humid spots, particularly in the limestone formation. 



Ceratopetalum apetalum, D. Don. 



Extra-tropic Eastern Australia. A beautiful tree with long 

 cyclindrical stem. Height reaching 90 feet, diameter 3 feet. Wood 

 soft, light, tough, close-grained, fragrant, good for joiners' and 

 cabinet-makers' work, locally in request for coachbuilding and there- 

 fore called coach-wood by the colonists [C. Virchowii, F. v. M., allied]. 



