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with pretty yellow flowers, the bark is used for tanning, and the 

 stems to make Native tooth-brushes. 



CASSIA FISTULA. Ccesalpiniece. NAT. AMULDAS. TAM. KON- 

 NEKAI. Native of the country, and is perhaps, when in blossom, 

 one of the most beautiful of the common jungle plants or trees. 

 It grows from ten to thirty feet, and has a dark green leaf with 

 long pods when ripe hanging from the branches. They contain 

 a sweet pulpy juice, which is mildly cathartic, and well known 

 to Native practitioners. The pods vary in length from a foot 

 to a foot and a half. 



CASSIA LANCEOLATA. The leaves of this plant are used as 

 Senna. 



CASTOR OIL PLANT. Vide Eicinus Gommunis. 



CASUARINA MURICATA. Hyrtacece. TINIAN PINE. NAT. HURI. 

 This is commonly called the fir tree in India, from its general 

 resemblance. It is grown in all parts of the Deccan, and has a 

 very handsome appearance amongst other trees. It has been 

 introduced about twenty or twenty-five years, and will grow to 

 the height of forty feet. The small cones abound with seed, 

 and should, if required, be gathered just before ripening ; you 

 have only to place them in the sun, when the seed will fall out, 

 and may be planted immediately in baskets, boxes, or beds of 

 good loam. 



CEDRELA TOONA. Cedrelacece. HIND. TOOMA. The Bastard 

 Cedar. This tree grows in the ravines of the Concan. Its 

 timber resembles mahogany, and is used very extensively in 

 Bengal for furniture. The flowers are used in Mysore and other 

 parts of India to form a beautiful red dye, with which cotton is 

 coloured. The bark is very astringent, and is used by the 

 Natives in cases of fever. It is called Bastard Cedar from an 

 aromatic resin exuding from it resembling the American Cedar. 

 Flowers white, very numerous, but small, smelling like honey. 



CERBERA FRUTICOSA. Apocynacece. A large shrub, native of 

 salt marshes, the fruit is a deadly poison, it is the " ordeal 

 tree" of Madagascar. 



CERBERA THEVETIA. A large shrub with leaves like the 



