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of apines or bristles are scattered over the sur- 
face, and the flowers are produced from the 
edge of the branches. C. phyllantlius, spleen- 
wort-leaved Indian fig, has the branches 
much thinner, and may be fairly denomi- 
nated leaves ; they are indented along the 
edge, and the flowers come out singly from 
the indentures. The fruit in some of the 
sorts is small, like currants, but in most it 
is large and shaped like a fig ; whence their 
name of Indian fig. These singular plants 
are all natives of the continent of South 
America and the West Indian islands. 
CADENCE, in music, according to the 
ancients, is a series of a certain number of 
notes, in a certain interval, which strike the 
ear agi eeably, and especially at the end of 
the song, stanza, &c. It consists ordinarily 
of three notes. Cadence, in the modern 
music, may be defined a certain conclusion 
of a song, or of the parts of a song, which di- 
vide it, as it were, into so many numbers or 
periods. It is when the parts terminate in 
a chord or note, the ear seeming naturally 
to expect it ; and is much the same in a 
song as the period that closes the sense in a 
paragraph of a discourse. See Music. 
Cabence, in rhetoric and poetry, the 
running of verse or prose, otheiwise called 
the numbers, and by the ancients ouB/xo;. 
Cadence, in dancing, is when the several 
steps and motions follow, or correspond, to 
the notes and measures of the music. 
Cadence is used as a military term, and 
implies a very regular and uniform method 
of marching, by tlie drum and music: it 
may not, says a good writer on this subject, 
be improperly called mathematical march- 
ing ; for after the length of the step is de- 
termined, the time and distance may be 
found. 
CADET is a military term, denoting a 
young gentleman who chooses to carry arms 
in a marching regiment as a private man. 
His views are to acquire some knowledge 
in the art of war, and to obtain a commis- 
sion in the army. Cadet differs from volun- 
teer, as the former takes pay, whereas the 
latter serves without any pay. There is a 
company of gentlemen cadets maintained at 
Woolwich, at the King’s expense, where 
they are taught all the sciences nece,ssary to 
form a complete officer. 
CADI, or Cadht, a Judge of the civil af- 
fairs in the Turkish empire. It is generally 
taken for the judge of a town : judges of 
provinces being distinguished by the appel- 
lation of mollas. 
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CADIA, ill botany, a genus of the Decan- 
dria Monogynia class and order. Essential 
character: calyx fire-cleft; petals five, 
equal, obcordate ; legume many-seeded. 
There is but one species; viz. C. purpurea, 
purple flowered cadia, is a shrub rising to 
the height of three feet. The leaves are 
pinnate, coming out alternately ; leaflets 
from 1 5 to 30 pairs, linear, retuse, the nerve 
ending in a little point. The corolla is rose 
coloured, or rather the colour of a peach 
blossom ; legume somewhat less, than a span 
in length, containing eight or ten seeds. It 
is a native of Arabia. 
CADUCI, in botany, the name of a class 
of plants in Linnams’s Methodiis Calycina, 
consisting of plants of which the calyx is a 
simple perianthium, supporting a single 
flower, or fructification, and falling off 
either before or with the petals. It stands 
opposed to the Persistentes, in the same 
method, and is exemplified in mustard, si- 
napi, and ranunculus. The term caducous 
IS expressive of the shortest period of dura- 
tion, and has different acceptations, accord- 
ing to tlie different parts of plpts to which 
it is applied. A calyx is said to be cadu- 
cous, which drops at the first opening of the 
petals, or even before, as in the poppy. 
Petals are caducous which are scarcely un- 
folded before they fall off, as in the meadow 
rue; and such leaves have obtained this de- 
nomination as fall before the end of the sum- 
mer. 
CADUS, in antiquity, a wine vessel of a 
certain capacity, containing 80 amphora;, 
or firkins, each of which, according to the 
best accounts, held nine gallons. 
CjECUM, or CcEcuM, in anatomy, the 
blind gut, or first of the thick intestines. 
See Anatomy. 
CjENOPTERIS, in botany, a genus of 
the Ci-yptogamia Filices. Generic charac- 
ter: fructifications in submarginal lateral 
lines, covered with a membrane gaping on 
the outside. There is but one species ; viz. 
C. rliizophylla, common peduncle or ra- 
chis, round, brown, and smooth, elongated 
at the tip, leafless ; bulbiferous rooting ; 
partial peduncles green, flatted, sometin.es 
winged. Fructifications in short, solitary, 
lateral lines, beginning at the nerve towards 
the base of the pinnules, and covered with 
an entire scariose brown membrane. Native 
of the island of Dominica. 
CjESALPINA, in botany, a genus of the 
Decandria Monogynia class and order. Na- 
tural order of Lomentaceae. Leguminosm, 
