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*'''Castor oil plant'''. Gerard (1597) was familiar with it under the name of ''Ricinus'' or Kik: the oil, he says, is called ''Oleum cicinum'' and used externally in skin diseases... In the eighteenth century, its cultivation in Europe as a medicinal plant had, however, practically ceased, and the small supplies of seeds and oil required for European medicine were obtained from Jamaica. The name 'Castor' was indeed originally applied about this period to the plant in Jamaica, where it seems to have been called 'Agnus castus', though it bears no resemblance to the South European plant properly so called. Grieve, ''A modern herball''.
=== ''Casuarina'' ===
*"Lignum ex cinereo & pallide ruffo variegatum est, gravissimum, durum, solidum... Multas gerit venas seu strias oblique inter se decurrentes, inque iis aliæ minores observantur venulæ naturalissime plumas referentes avis Casuarii." [Le bois est de couleur variée, entre cendré et roux pâle... Il porte des veines ou stries décurrentes obliques entre elles, et au milieu d'elles on peut observer d'autres petites veines qui font vraiment penser aux plumes de l'oiseau casoar]. (Rumphius, ''Herbarium Amboinense'', 1743, 3, 86).
*Les dictionnaires font référence au feuillage, alors que Rumphius décrit bien le bois.
=== ''cataputia'' ===
