a genus of plants of the order of Palmae, of which two species are described—*C. urens*, a native of India, and *C. horrida*, of South America. The *C. urens* is described by Dr Roxburgh as a very valuable tree. The yellow berry, which is about the size of our plum, is intensely acid if applied to the skin; but the stem, during the hot season, yields *Toddy*, the material from which palm wine is made; and the pith affords an excellent sago, much used by the Indians.

CASÁ, SANTA, the chapel of the Holy Virgin at Loreto. The *Santa Casa* is properly the chamber in which the blessed Virgin is said to have been born, where she was betrothed to Joseph, where the angel saluted her, and where the Son of God was incarnated. Of this building the Catholics relate many wonderful legends. See LORETO.