Cymbopetalum penduliflorum
Identifier: standardcycloped02bail
Title: The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Co. [etc., etc.]
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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nish purpleor maroon, breaking witli a bright orange-coloredfracture. The tree is planted for the sake of its fra-grant fls., the petals of which are dried and are usedmedicinally as well as for imparting a spicy flavor tofood. They were used by the ancient Mexicans beforethe intro. of cinnamon and other spices from the E.Indies for flavoring their chocolate. Though describedby Hernandez more than two centuries ago, the botani-cal identity of the xochinacaztli remained unknownuntil quite recently (see Smithsonian Report for 1910,P)). 427-431, 1911). This species is native of the mts.of S. Mex. and Guatemala. A closely related species,C. stenophyUtim, Donnell Smith, was discovered byCapt. John Donnell Smith in the Dept. of Quetzal-tenango, Guatemala; and another species, C. cos-tariccnsi; Safford {Asimina costaricensis, Donnell Smith)was collected by Adolfo Tonduz in the Dept. of Tala-manca, Costa Rica, in April, 1S94. Steps have beentaken by the Bureau of Plant Industry to intro. into
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1186. Cymbopetalum penduli-florum. (XH) the U. S. C. penduliflorum, seeds of which have beensent from Guatemala by the American Consul-General,George A. Bucklin. The other Cent. American spe-cies, as well as C. brasiliense, recently collected byHenry Pittier in Venezuela, are equally worthy ofcult, in greenhouses and in the warmer regions ofFla., Calif, and the Island possessions. W. E. Safford. CYMBOPOGON (Greek hmibo, a cup, and pogon,beard). Gramines. Oil-[iroducing grasses. The genus resembles Andropogon, of which it isconsidered by some a subgenus, but differs in havingsome of the lower paii-s of spikelets in eachspike staminate. The spike-like racemes areborne in pairs at the ends of the short branchesof the infl. and are subtended by a somewhatinflated sheath.—About 40 species, mostly ofthe tropics of the Old World. Several speciesfurnish essential oils and some are cult, forthat purpose. They areknown under the generalname of oil grasses orlemon grasses. Some ofthe more impo
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