CALYCIFLORÆ. A sub-division of dicotyledonous plants, having the stamens inserted on the calyx or disk.
CALYCIFORM. Formed like a calyx.
CALYCINE. Of, or belonging to, the calyx.
CALYCOPHYLLUM (from kalyx, a calyx, and phyllon, a leaf; in allusion to one of the teeth of the calyx being expanded into a large petiolate coloured leaf). ORD. Rubiaceæ. Stove evergreen shrubs, requiring a compost of loam, peat, and a little sand and charcoal. Cuttings of half ripe shoots will root in sand if placed under a bell glass, in bottom heat.
C. candidissimum (whitest).* fl., corolla white, campanulate, with a bearded throat, three together, the middle one bearing a petiolate leaf, but the two lateral ones naked; corymbs terminal. l. ovate, bluntly acuminated, 2in. to 3in. long. h. 30ft. Cuba, 1830.
CALYCOTOME (from kalyx, kalykos, calyx, and tome, a section; lips of calyx fall off). ORD. Leguminosæ. A small genus of hardy, divaricately-branched, spiny shrubs, formerly included as a section of Cytisus. Flowers yellow, disposed in short branched leafy fasicles. For culture, see Cytisus.
C. spinosa (spiny). fl. yellow. June and July. l., leaflets obovate-oblong. Branches angular, spiny. h. 5ft. to 6ft. Genoa, Corsica, &c., 1846. (B. R. 55.)
CALYCULATE. Having bracts so placed as to resemble an external or additional calyx.
CALYMMODON. See Polypodium.
CALYPSO (from the beautiful nymph, Calypso, or from Greek kalypto, to conceal; in reference to its place of growth). ORD. Orchideæ. An elegant terrestrial monotypic genus. It thrives well in half-shady spots on the margins of a rock garden or artificial bog, in a light, moist, vegetable soil, composed of peat, leaf soil, and sand, mulched with cocoa-nut fibre refuse in winter. Propagated by offsets.