FUST, in architecture, the shaft of a column, or the part comprehended between the base and the capital, called also the naked.
Gaguedi. CAGUEDI, a tree peculiar to Lamalmon, in Abyssinia, is thus described by Mr Bruce. The leaves are long, and broader as they approach the end. The point is obtuse; they are of a dead green, not unlike the willow, and placed alternately one above the other on the stalk. The calix is composed of many broad scales lying one above the other, which operates by the pressure upon one another, and keeps the calix shut before the flower arrives at perfection. The flower is monopetalous, or made of one leaf; it is divided at the top into four segments; where these end, it is covered with a tuft of down, resembling hair, and this is the case at the top also. When the flower is young and unripe, they are laid regularly so as to inclose one another in a circle. As they grow old and expand, they seem to lose their regular form, and become more confused, till
at last, when arrived at its full perfection, they range themselves parallel to the lips of the calix, and perpendicular to the stamens, in the same order as a rose. The common receptacle of the flower is oblong, and very capacious, of a yellow colour, and covered with small leaves like hair. The style is plain, simple, and upright, and covered at the bottom with a tuft of down, and is below the common receptacle of the flower.
Our author says that he has observed, in the middle of a very hot day, that the flowers unbend themselves more, the calix seems to expand, and the whole flower to turn itself towards the sun in the same manner as does the sun-flower. When the branch is cut, the flower dries as it were instantaneously, so that it seems to contain very little humidity.