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CHZETOGASTRA (from chaite, a bristle, and gaster, 
a belly; in allusion to the tube of the calyx being beset 
with bristles or scales). Окъ. Melastomacee. The plants 
formerly placed here are now generally distributed in the 
genera Brachyotum and Pleroma. Greenhouse or stove 
shrubs or herbs, for the most part clothed with strigose 
hairs. Flowers terminal. Leaves three to five-nerved, 
quite entire, or hardly serrnlated. They are of easy cul- 
ture in peat and loam. Propagated by seeds, sown in 
March; or by cuttings (of the perennials), in sandy peat. 
C. gracilis (slender).* Л. red, lilac, axillary ; pedicels one-flowered ; 
terminal ones three-flowered. 7, almost sessile, lanceolate-linear, 
acute, quite entire, villous. Plant herbaceous, erect, nearly 
sinple, naked at the apex. A. lit. Brazil, 1848. Stove perennial. 
C. lanceolata (lance-shaped-leaved), fl. white; peduncles tri- 
chotomous, axillary and terminal. ZEN. . petiolate, broadly 
lanceolate, acuminated, serrulately ciliated, villous on both sur- 
faces, Л. lft. Реги, 1820. Stove annual. 
C. strigosa (short-bristled),* jt. rosy-purple; cymes terminal, 
pedunculate, few-flowered. August. ¢. on short petioles, ovate, 
acute, hardly three-nerved, quite entire, with a few thick, 
scattered, adpressed bristles on the AE surface. Л. lft. West 
Indies, 1848, Greenhouse evergreen shrub, 
CHALAZA. That part of a seed where the nucleus 
joins the integuments. 
СНАМЖВАТТА (from chamai, on the ground, dwarf, 
and batos, a bramble; referring to its low growth and 
bramble-like flowers). ORD. Rosacee. А very pretty half- 
hardy evergreen shrub, thriving in a cool frame or green- 
house, in light loam, to which may be added a little peat. 
Cuttings should be struck in sand, in a cool frame. 
foiiolosa (leafleted).* 7. white, about 3in. in diameter; cymes 
four to five-flowered, terminal. 1. broadly-ovate, about Qin. ong, 
ny dissected. Young shoots clothed with a eRe ae 
g 
u nce, A, 2it. to 3ft. Sierra Nevada, 1859. See 
(В. M. 8171) 
CHAMZECISTUS. See Rhododendron Cham:ze- 
CHAMJECYPARIS (from chamai, on the ground, 
i.e, dwarf, and Kuparissos, Cypress; the Bastard or 
Dwarf Cypress) White Cedars. Syn. Retinospora. ORD. 
Conifere. Hardy evergreens. The present genus ranks 
extremely close to Cupressus, the principal distinction 
between the two being the more numerous ovules beneath 
the fertile scales of the latter. They are very pretty, 
and thrive best in a moist soil, in a rather protected 
situation. Propagated freely by seeds; but mainly by 
cuttings, put in during October. Select young side 
shoots, with a heel; insert in well-drained pots of sandy 
soil, and place in a close cold frame, keeping fairly moist 
through the winter. In February, they will be calloused, 
and should be placed in gentle heat; they will then root 
freely. This genus, like most others of the same order, 
is overloaded with synonyms, and mere varieties are often 
elaborated into species—most of them known in gardens 
the name of Retinospora, others as Cwpressus. 
C. Boursierii (Boursier’s). А synonym of С. Lawsoniana. 
С decussata (decussate). A synonym of C. ericoides. 
es A well-known dwarf, compact, conical 
bush, of garden origin is. C 7 
, and Juniperoides. a, Retinospora decussata 
"С. filicoides aurea (golden fern- 
. gona aurea, rn-like), A synonym of C. tetra- 
C. filifera (thread-bearing).* 1, Subulate, pointed, distant, in 
alternate pairs, fulvous-green colour. Bra: ing ; 
Secon ones’ alternate, long, distant, MR a AE 
principally, with numerous thread-like pensile ranchlets of 
various lengths ; terminal ones longer, filiform, Ја an, 1867, 
A dwarf tree, with irregular outline. SYN. C. pisifera filifera, 
e Keteleeri (Keteleer's) A synonym of C. obtusa. 
(Lawson's)* JL, male catkins bright cri 
P numerous, itd" when the trees аге in A young 
dark glossy green, more or less tinged with a glaucous 
A. -— Posee сеи or acute, 
А ап obscure tubercle towards the 
cones about = Size oi large peas, aud produced in great Dro. 
es short, and spreading; branchlets crowded, 
A 
(Са 
Chamrecyparis— continued. 
pendulous, fern-like, and feathery. Trunk comparatively slender. 
. 75ft. to 100ft. North California, 1853. А very splendid hardy 
evergreen tree, usually known in ens under the name of 
Cupressus. It is easily propagated: by seeds, but the numerous 
beautiful varieties aré best increased 
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by grafting upon seedling 
e M. А 
stocks of the species, Sys, С, Boursierii pressus 
> . | rsierit and Cu, 
ү See Fig. 415. .The varieties of this species are ED 
Veitch's ** Manual of Conlon as are RN vom 
9b Albo-spica (white-speckled)* ‘Terminal growth and tips of 
et 
C. L. 
C. L. argenteo- 
CL a 
ve res creamy-white. Growth rapid, but less dense than 
Albo-variegata (white-variegated).* Branch] 
ts and 
very deep green, profusely spotted and bl = i 
Of dwarf, compact! and pe habit. Tm =н 
argentea (silvery).* Branches longer and than 
those of the type ; foliage of almost silvery vhi pe 
varie. (silvery-varie; ted)* Man 
1 gata y branch. 
feli € leaves creamy-white, interspersed ч among the deep green 
varie, olden-variegated).* 
ox in having many £ its branchlets > бү. differs from 
C. L. 
yellow, 
‚ 1. erecta-viridis (erect-green),* Habit fastigiate 
with foliage of a lighter brigh giate and taperi 
very ornamental and distinct.” ter green than the type. It 
ei MN hratd-fortned), Branches excessively elongated. 
C. L. gracilis pendula acefull 
gracefully pendulous. А d € amatus 
wn plant, of vigorous growth. 
