The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . es always the largest; while in anotherthere are many pairs of pinnae, the leafletsscarcely half an inch long, linear in formand almost numberless. The flowers areusually borne on stalked globose heads,I but sometimes in terminal racemes; thecorollas small and hidden by the verynumerous long filaments of the stamens,which are almost always of a beautiful redcolour. From this latter circumstancethe genus is named Calliandra, signifyingbeautiful stamened. It differs f
The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . es always the largest; while in anotherthere are many pairs of pinnae, the leafletsscarcely half an inch long, linear in formand almost numberless. The flowers areusually borne on stalked globose heads,I but sometimes in terminal racemes; thecorollas small and hidden by the verynumerous long filaments of the stamens,which are almost always of a beautiful redcolour. From this latter circumstancethe genus is named Calliandra, signifyingbeautiful stamened. It differs from allallied genera in the valves of its com-pressed pod rolling backwards in a remark-able manner from apex to base when theseeds are ripe. Many of the species are incultivation in plant-stoves, and almost allof them produce bright red balls offlowers, which stand erect from amongstthe ferny foliage of some of the species ingreat profusion. In C. diademata thestamens are beautifully curved backwardsand pink in colour; the leaves twice pin-nate with eight or nine pinnae which haveeach from thirty to forty leaflets, so that. Calliandra Tweedii. each leaf is made up of no fewer than sixor eight hundred leaflets. This is a nativeof Brazil, and in cultivation. C. hcema- jtocephala, a lately introduced species, hasbinate leaves, each portion or pinna with Iabout ten pairs of leaflets half an inchlong, and its round balls of flowers are ofa rich red colour. The Peruvian womendecorate their hair with the flowers ofC. trinervia, calling them seda-sisa or silkflower. More than sixty species are enu-merated, all of them more or less orna-mental. [A. A. B.] CALLICARPA. A considerable genusof Yerbenacece, chiefly from the tropicaland subtropical districts of Asia, but foundalso, though more sparingly, in similardistricts in Africa and America. They areshrubs, more or less woolly with stellatehairs, nearly glabrous, and often withnumerous resinous glandular dots, especi-ally on the under s
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