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(iii) The cyma, cyma recta, or cymatium (Fig. 869) seems well contrived for a covering and to shelter other members. The cyma recta is only used properly for crowning members, though in Palladio's Doric, and in other examples, it is found occasionally in the bed mouldings under the corona.