CANDLEBERRY-TREE. See [Aleurites triloba].
CANDLE-TREE. See Parmentiera cerifera.
CANDOLLEA (named after Augustus Pyramus De Candolle, formerly Professor of Botany, at Geneva, and author of numerous botanical works). ORD. Dilleniaceæ. A genus of very ornamental greenhouse evergreen shrubs, natives of Australia. Flowers yellow, sub-solitary, at the tips of the branches; sepals five, oval, mucronate; petals obovate or obcordate. They thrive in a compost of equal parts loam and peat, with which sufficient sand may be mixed to render the whole porous. Cuttings will root, if placed in a similar compost, under a hand glass; seeds are also sometimes obtainable.
FIG. 357. FLOWERS AND BUDS OF CANDOLLEA CUNEIFORMIS.
C. cuneiformis (wedge-shaped).* fl. yellow. July. l. smooth, obovately cuneated, blunt at the top, entire. Branches cinerous. h. 7ft. 1824. See Fig. 357. (B. M. 2711.)
C. Huegelii (Huegel's). fl. at tops of the branches, among the leaves, on short pedicels; sepals acuminate, hoary outside, longer than the petals. May. l. linear, quite entire, villous when young. h. 6ft. 1837.
C. tetrandra (four-stamened). fl. yellow, solitary; petals emarginate. June. l. oblong, cuneate, toothed. h. 7ft. 1842. (B. R. 1843, 50.)
CANDYTUFT. See Iberis.
CANE-BRAKE. A common name for different species of Arundinaria.
CANELLA (a diminutive of canna, a reed; in allusion to the rolled bark, like cinnamon). ORD. Canellaceæ. The best-known species of this genus is a very ornamental and economically valuable stove evergreen tree, which thrives in a mixture of loam and sand. Well-ripened cuttings, taken off at a joint, will root in sand, under a hand glass, with bottom heat, in April or May; but care should be taken not to deprive them of any of their leaves. Sweet says that large old cuttings are best.