The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Cicca

(named after Peter Cicca, a writer of the sixteenth century). ORD. Euphorbiaceae. A small genus, now usually referred to Phyllanthus. The best-known species is C. disticha, which is a stove evergreen fruit-tree. It thrives well in sandy loam; and cuttings of ripe shoots will root in sand, if placed under a glass, and in bottom heat.

C. disticha (two-ranked). fl. greenish; racemes lateral. l. oblong. h. 10ft. India, 1796.

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