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[CODO 



is found to be full of toddy, which, it 

 must be borne in mind, is the sap of the 

 tree. Its seeds yield a semi-solid oil. C. 

 coronata, a small Brazilian species not 

 more than thirty feet high, has a pithy 

 substance in the interior of its stem, 

 which is used as food ; its seeds also yfleld 

 oil. The Cocoa-nut Palm is represented in 

 Plate 7, fig. d. [A. S. 



COCOTIER. (Pr.) Cocos nucifera. 

 COCRISTE. (Fr.) Rhinantlius major. 

 CODACAXTHUS. A small genus of 

 ; Indian herbaceous plants, belonging to 

 Acanthacea?, and having the habit of Cam- 

 panula ranunculoides. The drooping blue 

 , flowers are in compound one-sided racemes 

 ; at the ends of the stem or branches ; they 

 are furnished with small bracts and brac- 

 teoles. The calyx is equally five-parted ; 

 | the corolla has a short campanulate tube, 

 j and a five-cleft limb ; there are only two 

 included stamens owing to the non-de- 

 I velopment of the other pair ; the style is 

 free. The racemose inflorescence of this 

 genus obviously separates it from the 

 allied genera Phlebophyllum and Endopogon, 

 which have their flowers in spikes. [W. C] 

 CODAZZIA. A name given by Karsten 

 and Triana to Delostoma integrifolium. 



CODDA-PANNA. The Talipot Palm, 

 Corypha umbraculifera. 



CODESO DEL PICO. A name applied 

 in Teneriffe to Adenocarpus frankenioides. 

 CODIA. A synonyme of Pisonia. 



CODL32UM. A genus of the spurgeworl 

 family found in the Moluccas, and the is- 

 lands to the north of Australia. It is 

 composed of shrubs which have much the 

 appearance of Aucuba. They differ from 

 Croton, to which they are most nearly al- 

 lied, in having very numerous stamens in 

 the male flowers, and in the females being 

 destitute of petals. Their beautiful painted 

 leaves, which are shortly stalked and col- 

 lected principally at the apex of the 

 branches, vary much in form in the same 

 species, being either linear or broadly oval, 

 generally about six inches long, and quite 

 smooth with entire margins. The green 

 inconspicuous flowers are male and female 

 on different racemes on the same plant : 

 the males with a calyx of Ave divisions, 

 five small petals, and very numerous sta- 

 mens, and the females with a similar but 

 smaller calyx, no petals, and a three-lobed 

 ovary crowned with a trifid style. The 

 fruit is a three-celled capsule about the 

 size of a pea ; each cell with a single seed. 



C. pictam is a shrub often met with in 

 stoves, where it is cultivated for the sake 

 of its beautiful leaves, which are of a 

 deep-red colour, or sometimes yellow mot- 

 tled and variegated with green. In the 

 Moluccas, its native country, it is culti- 

 vated about the houses, and used for 

 fences. The inhabitants also decorate their 

 triumphal arches with its leaves, and strew 

 them about on occasions of festivity. The 

 bBrk and root excite a burning sensation 



in the mouth when chewed. This is the 

 plant so often found in gardens under 

 the names of Croton variegatum and Croton 

 pictum. The two other known species are 

 plants of very similar appearance. [A.A.B.] 



CODITJM. The most highly organised of 

 the siphonaceous division of green-spored 

 Alga which occurs upon our coasts. The 

 species resemble sponges. The frond is 

 composed of branching filaments without 

 any partitions, having on their lateral 

 branchlets little cysts containing number- 

 less minute zoospores. C. tomentosum has 

 a more or less cylindrical or compressed 

 forked green frond, and is found from the 

 equator almost to the polar basin, but is 

 scarcely found on the eastern coasts of 

 North America, though common on the 

 north. It extends also southward to Cape 

 Horn, Australia, &c, without any essential 

 change. [M. J. BJ 



CODLIN. A variety of the Apple, Pyrus 

 Malus. 



CODLINS AND CREAM. Epilobium hir- 

 sutum. 



CODON. A genus containing a single 

 species from the Cape of Good Hope. It is 

 an annual herb, covered over with white 

 spines, and having alternate petiolate 

 leaves and large flowers in terminal ra- 

 cemes. The calyx is ten to twelve-parted ; 

 the corolla is campanulate with as many 

 lobes as the calyx, and like the sepals long 

 and short alternately ; there are ten to 

 twelve stamens inserted at the base of the 

 corolla tube ; the ovary is sub-two-celled, 

 free, and ovoid-acute with two parietal 

 placenta?, to which are attached numerous 

 ovules. The capsule is surrounded by the 

 persistent calyx, and surmounted by the 

 style, and contains numerous angular tu- 

 berculated seeds ; it dehisces loculicklally. 



This genus has a very uncertain position. 

 It has been most generally referred to Sola- 

 naceo? or toHydrophyllacece, though by some 

 to Scrophubiriacew and even toBoraginacece. 

 Its one-celled multiovular ovary, and parie- 

 tal placentae separate it from Boraginacea?. 

 Its ten to twelve-lobed regular corolla, ten 

 to twelve equal stamens, and one-celled 

 ovary separate it from Scrophulariacece. 

 Its habit and structure approach nearer to 

 Solanacece, but it can scarcely be united to 

 this order on account of its one-celled 

 ovary and loculicidal dehiscence. In most 

 characters, and in its whole habit, it is more 

 nearly related to Eydrophyllacea3, though 

 differing remarkably from any other genus 

 of the order. [W. C] 



CODONANTHEMTJM. A genus of Eri- 

 caceae, consisting of several species of 

 heath-like plants, with ternate whorled or 

 scattered leaves, and the flowers crowded 

 together at the end of very short branches. 

 It has a four-toothed calyx, and a hy- 

 pogynous persistent corolla, both cam- 

 panulate : the four stamens are inserted be- 

 low the hypogynous disc, and have lateral 

 exserted anthers ; the ovary is one-celled 

 i with a single pendulous ovule, and the stig- 



