CALIFORNIAN MAYBUSH. See Photinia arbutifolia.
CALIFORNIAN PEPPER-TREE. See Schinus Molle.
CALIFORNIAN POPPY. See Platystemon californicus.
CALIPHRURIA (from kalos, beautiful, and phroura, prison; from the handsome spathe inclosing the flowers). ORD. Amaryllideæ. Pretty half-hardy greenhouse bulbs. Tube of perianth narrow, funnel-shaped, nearly straight; limb regular, stellate; stamens furnished with a bristle on each side. They thrive best in a compost of sandy loam, a little peat, leaf soil, and sand. Propagated by offsets. After flowering, the plants should have a slight heat; and, when starting into new growth, should be repotted.
C. Hartwegiana (Hartweg's).* fl. greenish-white; umbels seven-flowered; scape nearly terete, glaucous. May. l. petiolate, depressed, ovate, sub-plicate, green. h. 1ft. New Grenada, 1843. (B. M. 6259.)
FIG. 325. CALIPHRURIA SUBEDENTATA.
C. subedentata (rarely-toothed).* fl. white, funnel-shaped, disposed in a truss, on a long scape. Winter. l. stalked, ovate-oblong. h. 1½ft. Columbia, 1876. See Fig. 325. (B. M. 6289.)
CALISAYA BARK. See Cinchona Calisaya.