Coœlocline

( Bot. ) A genus of plants, order Ana nacea. The species C. polycarpa is the Berberine, or yellow dye-tree of Soudan. Its bark yields a beautiful yellow color, which is much used for dyeing in certain parts of Africa. When reduced to a coarse powder, this bark is a valuable topical remedy in the treatment of ulcers. It contains the alkaloid berberine, to which its medicinal virtues are probably due. Cœlosperm'us, a . [Gr. koilos , and sperm a , seed.] ( Bot .) Having seeds curved on the inner side, by the bending inward toward each other of the top and bot tom, as some umbelliferous plants. Cælum, n. ( Arch .) According to Vitruvius, a soffit or ceiling. Cœlus, or Ura'nus. ( Myth .) The heavens person i fied, and the most ancient of the gods, was, at the same time, the offspring and the husband of Terra, the earth, by whom he had eighteen children. Among them were Saturn, the Cyclops, and the Titans. His children rebelling against him, wounded him; and from the blood which sprinkled the ground, sprang the giants, furies, and nymphs.