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cylindrical capsule, bursting from above 

 downwards into five valves. [M. T. M.] 



CATHEDRA. A genus of Brazilian trees 

 belonging to Olacacece, having alternate 

 shortly stalked elliptical leathery leaves, 

 and small axillary clusters of nearly sessile 

 flowers, with the floral coverings fleshy 

 and green ; calyx cup-shaped, petals six, 

 stamens six, disk conspicuous. [J. T. S.] 



CATINGA. A genus doubtfully referred 

 by its author to the myrtle family. The 

 two known species are described as trees 

 of French Guiana; their leaves opposite 

 or alternate, stalked, entire, ovate-oblong, 

 with long points, and pellucid dots. The 

 flowers are not known. The fruits are borne 

 in axillary racemes; that of C. moschata 

 resembling an orange in size, colour, and 

 form; it is crowned with the four re- 

 maining calyx-lobes, and contains one 

 seed, while the outer fleshy part of the 

 fruit is covered with little bladders, con- 

 taining an essential aromatic oil of a 

 musky odour. C. fragrans has a fruit, in 

 size and form like a citron, and has an 

 odour like that of basil. [A. A. B.] 



CATJANG. The native name of Cajanus 

 indicus, a wholesome and much-used kind 

 of pulse. 



CATKIN. A deciduous spike, consisting 

 of unisexual apetalous flowers. An amen- 

 tum. 



CATMINT. The common name for Ne- 

 peta ; especially applied to N. Cataria. — , 

 MALABAR. Anisomeles malabarica. 



CATNEP, or CATNIP. Nepeta Cataria. 



CATOBLASTUS. Two species of palms, 

 formerly included in the genus Iriartea, 

 have recently been separated under this 

 name. They are both natives of New 

 Grenada, where they grow together in 

 masses, having trunks from thirty to fifty 

 feet high, distantly marked with circular 

 scars, supported a short distance above the 

 level of the ground upon a tuft of aerial 

 roots, and bearing a crown of pinnate 

 leaves. They differ from Iriartea in the 

 male and female flowers being borne on 

 separate spikes, the males having a small 

 rudimentary ovary in addition to the nine 

 to fifteen stamens, whilst the females have 

 scarcely any rudimentary stamens. The 

 seed, also, has markings like a nutmeg 

 (ruminate), and its embryo is placed up- 

 right at the base. [A. S.] 



CATOCOMA. A genus of scandent or 

 climbing shrubs, natives of the tropical 

 parts of S. America, and belonging to the 

 milkwort family. The leaves are alternate, 

 entire, ovate or oblong, and leathery in 

 texture. The flowers are numerous, dis- 

 posed in terminal panicles, yellow or 

 greenish white, often with a purple spot 

 on the keel ; the calyx five-leaved, the 

 three exterior leaves small ; the petals five, 

 one of them large keeled and three-lobed, 

 the two lateral ones small and scale-like, 

 the other two oblong ; the stamens eight 



in number, united into a tube which is 

 cleft above ; the anthers one-celled, open- 

 ing by a terminal pore. The fruit is com- 

 pressed, wedge-shape, fleshy, and two- 

 celled, each cell with one seed, which is 

 furnished with long silky hairs. C. flori- 

 bunda is an extensive Brazilian climber, 

 scrambling over the tops of the highest 

 trees, and covering them with a crown of 

 yellowish flowers. Its roots are used 

 against snake-bites. Upwards of a dozen 

 species are known, differing from each 

 other chiefly in the form and pubescence 

 of the leaves. [A. A. B.] 



CATOSTEMMA. A genus of the tea 

 family (Ternstrdmiacea) found in British 

 Guiana. The only species known, C. fra- 

 grans, is a tree fifty feet high. The leaves 

 are alternate, entire, obovate in form, 

 with a little recurved point at the apex, 

 two to four inches long, and one to two 

 broad. The flowers are numerous and 

 fragrant, disposed in fascicles in the axils 

 of the upper leaves, about half an inch 

 across ; the calyx cup-shaped, with a two- 

 lobed limb. The plant may be recognised 

 from any other in the family by this cha- 

 racter. The petals are five in number, in- 

 serted into the upper portion of the calyx 

 tube, and falling away with it after wither- 

 ing ; the stamens very numerous, in five 

 parcels. The fruit not known. [A. A. B.] 



CAT'S-CLAW, Doliclws filiformis. Also 

 Inga unguis-Cati. 



CAT'S-EAR. The common name for Hy- 

 pochceris, especially H. radicata; applied 

 also to Gnaphalium dioicum. 



CAT'S-MILK. Euphorbia helioscopia. 



CAT'S-TAIL. The common name for 

 Typha. — , GRASS. The common name 

 for Phleum. 



CATSUP or KETCHUP. A sauce pre- 

 pared from mushrooms, walnuts, and other 

 vegetable productions. 



CATTEMUNDOO. A gum-elastic yielded 

 by Euphorbia antiquorum. Sometimes 

 called Callemundoo. 



CATTERIDGE TREE. Comus sanguinea. 



CAT-THYME. Teucrium Marum. 



CATTLE YA. An extensive genus of 

 orchids inhabiting Central America and 

 Brazil, where they are found on the bark 

 of trees, and. on rocks. The species all 

 form pseudo-bulbs bearing one, or at the 

 most two, fleshy leaves, from, the axil of 

 which rise two or more flowers for the most 

 part rose-coloured, but occasionally yellow, 

 or some tint of that colour. These flowers 

 : are often among the largest in the orchi- 

 i daceous order, some being as much as 

 | seven inches across from tip to tip of the 

 petals. The finest of all these grand 

 species is C. Warscewiczii from the Ama- 

 zons, whose flowers grow seven together 

 on a raceme eighteen inches long. Next 

 to it stand C. Mossice, labiata, crispa, and 

 Skinneri. The species called C. Schilleriana 



