. A dictionary of the flowering plants and ferns. Botany. CAN A FA LI A (sword or sabre bean, overlook) cult. ed. pods. C. obhisifolia DC. is a common trop. shore plant. Canbya Parry. Papaveraceae (11). 2 California, Mex. Cancellate, latticed. Cancrinia Kar. et Kir. Compositae (7). i Centr. As. Candidus (Lat.), pure white. Candle-nut, Aleurites; -plant, Dictammts ; -tree, Parmentiera; -wood (W. I.), Sciadophyllitm, Ainyris. Candollea Labill. in Ann. Mus. Par. 1805 (Stylidium Sw., }. Stylidiaceae. 85 Austr., N. Z., E. As. Candollea Labill. i8o6-Hibbertia Andr. (Dillen.). Candolleaceae
. A dictionary of the flowering plants and ferns. Botany. CAN A FA LI A (sword or sabre bean, overlook) cult. ed. pods. C. obhisifolia DC. is a common trop. shore plant. Canbya Parry. Papaveraceae (11). 2 California, Mex. Cancellate, latticed. Cancrinia Kar. et Kir. Compositae (7). i Centr. As. Candidus (Lat.), pure white. Candle-nut, Aleurites; -plant, Dictammts ; -tree, Parmentiera; -wood (W. I.), Sciadophyllitm, Ainyris. Candollea Labill. in Ann. Mus. Par. 1805 (Stylidium Sw., }. Stylidiaceae. 85 Austr., N. Z., E. As. Candollea Labill. i8o6-Hibbertia Andr. (Dillen.). Candolleaceae = Stylidiaceae. Candy-tuft, Iberis amani, L. Cane, a commercial term for stems of grasses (esp. bamboos), climbing palms, &c.; bamboo-, cf. bamboos ; -brake, Ariindinaria ; dumb-, Dieffenbachia; Malacca-, Calamus; rattan-, Calamus, and cf. Rattan; sugar-, Saccharum ojficinarum L. Tobago, Bactns minor Jacq.; Whangee-, Phyllostachys. Canella P. Br. (Winterana L.). 2 W. Ind., trop. Am. C. alba Murr. yields Canella bark, used as a tonic and stimulant. Canella bark, see last. Canellaceae = Winteranaceae. Canephora Juss. Rubiaceae (i. 8). i Madagascar. Fls. in clusters at the top of a phyllodineous stalk with a 2-lobed calyculus. Canescent, grey or hoary. Canistrum Morren (Aechmea £ff.). Bromel. (4). 4 Brazil. Canker-berry (W. L), Solatium bahamense L. Canna L. Cannaceae. 40 trop. and subtrop. Am., C. indica L. cosmop. trop. Many sp., vars. and hybrids, cult. C. indica (Indian shot) is the basis of most of these. Habit like Zingiberaceae or Marantaceae, but C. can be distinguished even when not in fl. by possessing neither the ligule of the former nor the pulvinus of the latter. Infl. term. usu. composed of 2-fl. cincinni. The two fls. are homodromous, but the bracteole is to the right in one and to the left in the other (behind one or other of the two lat. sepals in the diagram). Fl. $> , asymmetric, epig. K 3, C (3). The A is the most conspicuous part. There is a leafy
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