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CABICA 



CARLUDOVICA 



found to be good decorative plants for both 

 tory and summer bedding, the deeply cut. palmate leaves 

 forming a striking contrast to ordinary vegetation. In 

 bedding out. select open, sunny exposure, with perfect 

 drainage, and make the soil rich and friable. Constant 

 cultivation with alight hoe will cause a luxuriant growth 

 under these conditions, and 

 the planter will be amply re- 

 paid for his trouble by beau- 

 tiful, showy specimens as 

 uni(iue and tropical-appearing 



Cult, by E. N. Reasoner. 



Papiya, Linn. Papaw. 

 Melon Papaw. Melon Za- 

 POTE. Figs. 3C3, 364. Trunk 

 reaching 20 ft. : Ivs. often L' 

 ft. across, palmately 7-lobed: 

 fr. 6-12 in. long and half as 

 thick, hanging from the lower 

 axils of the pistillate plant. 

 Trop. Amer..but widely natu- 

 ralized. Grows spontaneouslv 

 in the wild in S. Fla. B.M. 

 2«98-!l. A. (i. IX: r.n.- The 

 plant si-i-nis s(.iTictimes to be polygamous (to bear 

 both kinds of (lowers }. The fruit is used as a 

 vermifuge and a cosmetic. The juice of the fruit 

 or the macerated leaves, if rubbed on animal flesh, 

 make it very tender. It Is best to roll the meat 

 and leaves together for a few hours. The fruits are 

 made into sauces or conserves, and are sometimes 

 eaten raw. The Papaw is variable. C. jjyrifiHrmis, 

 Hort., has pear-shaped fr. C. atrovioldcea, Hort., 

 with purple fr., is evidently only a form of it. 



grdcilis, Hort. Larger than C. Papaya, with 

 finely cut palmate Ivs. with pink veins. A form of C. 

 Papnija I 



CandamarcSnsis, Hook. f. (C. Cundinamarehisis, 

 Liii'll '. I.'. iimiiiTous, d.ark green above and pale 



5-angled, golden yellow, 5-loculed. V. I r I ; M 



6198.— "Probably the most hardy -i 1 ; 



-makes rapidly a bold foliage plant", tli. i . , 



yellowish flowers being produced hcr< ;illiin \i:ii ' 

 -Franeesi-hi, S. Calif. 



quercifdlla, Bciitli. .V: Hook. ( VasconcUla querci- 

 mill. (St. Hil.). Lvs. shaped like those of the Eng- 

 lish oak. palmately :i-niTved, ovate or ovate-lance- 

 olate and sometimes obscurely cordate, the margin 

 undulate or inequally few-lobed, the lobes 

 obtuse or the lower ones acute. S. Braz. 

 and S. — "A quick-growing, hardy kind. ^gS^L 

 with small fruits, but its large halberd- ,^^*°°^ 

 shaped leaves contain a higher percentage 

 of papaine, now much used in medicine \ 

 inpreference to pepsin. "—/'ro/iccsc*!. 1 



fusely: fr. dark red. 1-1^ 

 in. long, resembling in fla- 

 vor red raspberries, and 

 having a papery skin and 

 few small seeds. A fine 

 pot shrub. Well worth ex- 

 tensive planting in S. Fla. 

 and Calif. The fruit is said 

 to be unsurpassed for jam 

 making. 



acuminata, DC. Spines 

 weak: lvs. smaller, ovate- 

 acute, subcordate, mucro- 

 nate : peduncles short, 

 forked, axillary : fls. with 



grandifldra, DC. Natal Plum. Spiny shrub : 

 Ivs. ovate-acute, tapering to the base : fls. large, 

 white, fragrant, solitary and terminal, twisted to 

 the right: fr. red, size of a cherry, good. S. Afr. 

 B.M. 6307. E. N. Reasoner and L. H. B. 



CABLtNA (said to have cured the army of Charle- 

 magne [Carolinus] of the plague). Comp6sitce. Some 

 15 or 20 species in the Mediterranean region. Low, 

 rather coarse annuals, biennials or perennials, with 

 thisth-like foliage, large white or purplish heads, a 

 fo:itliery pappus, and chaffy receptacle. 



acaiilis, Linn. A small and very dwarf hardy plant: 

 liiigbt 3-() in. : lvs. glossy, pinnatifid, divided, with 

 spiny ends: fl. arising barely above the foliage, soli- 

 tary,' very interesting, the scales surrounding the 

 llower-head being long and narrow and ray- or petal- 

 liki-. silkv. shinv: head 6 in. across when expanded. 

 .Inn.-. .luiy and iate fall. G.C. II. 13:720, 721. -Cult. : 

 an i.|Hn. sunny place and ordinary garden soil are all 

 I h. \ i.c|uire. They are capital for the sunny part of 

 a KH k, ly. Prop, by cuttings or seeds. 



J. B. Keller. 



CARLUD6VICA (Charles IV., and his Queen 

 Loiiisii. of Spain I. CuclanthAceai. Palm-like plants 

 (it 'rro|i. Aiiiir., allied on the one hand to screw 

 pinis and on the other to aroids. The plants are 

 mona'cious, the two sexes being on the same spadix, 

 which is enclosed in a 4-leaved spathe. 

 Staminate fls. with many stamens and many- 

 lobed calyx, 4 of them surrounding a pis- 



CABlSSA (aboriginal name). ApocynA 

 €€(e. About 20 very branchy spinose shrubs 

 of the tropics of Africa, Asia and Australia, cult, for 

 ornament or for the edible berry-like fr. Fls. white, 

 solitary or in cymes ; lobes of calyx and corolla 5, the 5 

 stamens free and included in the throat, the ovary 2- 

 loculed : lvs. opposite and thick, simple. In the Old 

 World sometimes cult, in warmhouses, but in this 

 country known only in the extreme S. Prop, by seeds 

 and cuttings of ripe wood. 



Car4ndas,Linn. Caraunda. Christ's-Thorn. Ever- 

 green shrub or small tree, with dark green ovate or 

 elliptic mucronate entire lvs., strong axillary spines 

 (which are often forked) and fragrant white fls. in clus- 

 ters of 2-3, the corolla twisted to the left in the bud : 

 fr. the size of a cherrv (1 in. in diam.), reddish, pleas- 

 ant-tasted. India. L. B.C. 7: 663. -Reaches 20 ft. Half 

 hardy in central Fla. The fruits are eaten from the 

 hand when ripe, and pickled when green. Might serve 

 for hedges. 



363. Carica Papaya 



tillate fl. — the latter have a 4-sided ovary, 4 barren sta- 

 mens, and 4-lobed calyx: fr.a4-sided, many-seeded berry. 

 The Carludovicas are usually regarded and treated as 

 palms bv gardeners. They are useful for decoration. 

 The family Cyclanthaceae is exclusively American, of 



