CADUCOUS. Falling off soon; deciduous.
CÆNOPTERIS. See [Asplenium.]
CÆSALPINIA. (in honour of Andreas Cæsalpinus, a celebrated Italian botanist, 1519-1603). Brasiletto. ORD. Leguminosæ. An ornamental genus of stove evergreen trees or shrubs, not much grown, on account of the space required and the time the species take to flower. Flowers yellow or red, produced in racemes, having a top-shaped calyx, divided at the end into five parts, the lowest larger than the others; petals five, unequal-stalked, upper one shortest; stamens ten. A mixture of loam and leaf mould suits them best. Cuttings are somewhat difficult to root, but sometimes will succeed if taken off from the mother plant in a growing state and planted in sand, with a hand glass placed over them, in heat.
C. alternifolia (alternate-leaved). fl. orange, clustered. l. alternate, very elegant, compound. Central America, 1868.
C. brasiliensis (Brazilian). Brazil Wood. fl. orange; racemes rather panicled. l. with seven to nine pairs of pinnæ, each pinna bearing about fifteen or sixteen pairs of oval-oblong, obtuse, glabrous leaflets. Brazil, 1739. Plant unarmed.
C. Sappan (Sappan). fl. yellow, panicled. l. with ten to twelve pairs of plane, each pinna bearing ten to twelve pairs of unequal-sided, obliquely oval-oblong leaflets, which are emarginate at the apex. h. 40ft. Tropical Asia, 1773. This tree furnishes the Sappan-wood of commerce.
C. sepiaria (hedge). fl. yellow. April. l. compound; pinnæ with about ten pairs of pinnules. h. 60ft. India, 1857. SYN. Biancea scandens.
CÆSIOUS. Lavender-colour, bluish-grey.
CÆSPITOSE. Growing in tufts.
CAFFER BREAD. See Encephalartos Caffra.
CAFFER TEA. See Helichrysum nudifolium.
CAFTA. See Catha edulis.
CAHOUN NUTS. A name applied to the fruits of Attalea Cohune, which yield a valuable oil.