44 SELECT PLANTS READILY ELIGIBLE 



damp woods of North America. Heart-wood pale-coloured. 



Seed of sweet pleasant taste. 



Carya tomentosa, Nuttall* 



The Mocker Nut-tree or White Heart Hickory. A big tree 

 of North America. Likes forest soil, not moist. Heart- 

 wood pale-coloured, remarkable for strength and durabiKty. 

 Seeds very oily. Nut small, but sweet. A variety produces 

 nuts as large as an apple. 



Caryota Albert!, F. v. Mueller. 



The Albert Palm, known only from the most northern parts 

 of Queensland; nevertheless, this noble palm would probably 

 endure our winters as it lives at Sydney without protection. 



Caryota urens, Linne. 



India. One of the hardier Palms, ascending according to 

 Dr. Thomas Anderson the Himalayas to an altitude of 5000 

 feet, yet even there attaining a considerable height, though 

 the temperature sinks in the cooler season to 40° Fahrenheit. 

 The trunk furnishes a sago-like starch. This Palm flowers 

 only at an advanced age, and after having produced a 

 succession of flowers dies away. From the sap of the 

 flowers Toddy and Palm-sugar are prepared, like from the 

 Cocos and Borassus Palm, occasionally as much as 12 gallons 

 of Toddy being obtained from one tree in a day. The fibre 

 of the leaf-stalks can be manufactured into very strong ropes, 

 also into baskets, brushes and brooms. The outer wood of 

 the stem serves for turnery. 



Cassia acutifolia, Delile. 



Indigenous or now spontaneous in Northern and tropical 

 Africa and South-west Asia. Perennial. The merely dried leaflets 

 constitute part of the Alexandrian and also Timievelly Senna. 

 In Victoria it will be only in the warmest northern and eastern 

 regions, where Senna can perhaps be cultivated to advantage. 



Cassia angustifolia, Yahl. 



Northern and tropical Africa and South-western Asia, indi- 

 genous or cultivated. Perennial. Yields Mecca-Senna, also 

 the Bombay and some of the Tinnevelly Senna. 



Cassia fistula, Linne. 



South Asia. The long pods of this ornamental tree contain 

 an aperient pulp of pleasant taste, of medicinal value; also 

 used in the manufacture of cake-tobacco. Traced by Dr. 

 Hooker to the dry slopes of the central Himalayas. 



Cassia Marylandica, Linne. 



An indigenous Senna plant of the United States of North 

 America. Perennial. 



