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is better for cordage purposes, as it does not contract in water. The natives use it 

 in the manufacture of rough mats, employed as a cape to keep off the rain, it being 

 more durable than Phormium fiber. Though the fiber is coarse, it seems well adapted 

 for ropes and paper making. (Spon.) 



C. terminalis is a Hawaiian and Asiatic species (see Dracama), and C. refiexa, and C. 

 fragrans are African species. 0. nutans is found in China, India, and South Sea 

 Islands. Bernardm records C. lieliconia from Jamaica. According to the Official 

 Guide Kew Mus., garments have been made from species of Cordyline in New Zea- 

 land and colored with native dyes. 



* Specimens.— C. indivisa, Mus. T T . S. Dept. Ag. 



Cork-wood Tree. Ochroma lagopus. 

 Corn. (Maize.) 



Various fibers from leaves and husks of corn, and cellulose from cornstalks. See 

 Zea mays. 



Coronilla emerus. 



Exogen. Leguminosce. A bush, 5 feet. 



A Mediterranean plant sometimes cultivated in gardens of southern Europe and 

 commonly known as the Scorpion senna. The leaves yield a dye and have medicinal 

 properties. 



Bast Fiber. — Savorgnan mentions this species as one of the plants that has been 

 given the name Ginestra, which is applied to several distinct species of plants yield- 

 ing fiber and particularly to Spartium. It is the Ginestra di oosco, and is of little 

 value as a textile. 



Corosal (Gent. Am.). See note from Squier under Acrocomia. 

 Corozo (see Cocos crispa). 



May be the same as Corojo (Cuba). See Acrocomia lasiospatha. In Venezuela 

 Corozo is Elceis melanococca. u Corozo is a collective name for several species of palms 

 with fruits having a hard kernel" {Dr. Ernst). 



Cortega (Panama). See Apeiba. 



Corteza (Sp.)=bark. 



Corylus californica. Hazelnut Trees. 



The hazels are too well known to need description here. They are small trees or 

 large shrubs. "The usual form of the hazel, in its wild state, is a straggling bush 

 consisting of a number of long, flexible stems from the same root" (Treas. Botany). 



Woody Fiber. — "The young flexible twiga of the California hazelnut (C. ros- 

 trata var. californica) are almost in as great demand by the Indians of California 

 and Oregon as the branches of Salix sessilifolia; these two plants making up most of the 

 warp of their basket work. Hazelnut twigs are also much used in binding fish dams" 

 (Dr. V. Harard). 



Corypha gebanga. Gebang Palm. 



Endogen. Palma?. 

 A Javanese species of palm, from the trunk of which a kind of sago is obtained. 

 The Kew Mus. exhibits a kadu, or sleeping mat, made from the leaves on the island of 

 Ceram ; also a hat made from the leaves in Java, and strips of the unexpanded leaves 

 used in Borneo for sewing. The leaves are also plaited into baskets. 



Corypha umbraculifera. Talipot Palm. 



Native of Ceylon and Malabar coast. Straight cylindrical trunk, marked by rings 

 and surmounted by a crown of gigantic fan-like leaves; height, 60 to 70 feet. See 

 fig. 1, PI. IX. 



