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CHINESE CHERRY, DOUBLE. See Cerasus 
serrulata. | 
CHINESE ROSE. See Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. 
CHIOCOCCA (from chion, snow, and kokkos, a berry ; 
the berries of C. racemosa are white, hence it is called 
Snowberry) Snowberry. ORD. Rubiacee. : Stove ever- 
green shrubs, generally with а climbing habit. Racemes 
axillary, opposite, simple, or panicled. Leaves opposite, 
ovate, or oblong, acute, glabrous. They thrive jn a mix- 
ture of loam, peat, and sand. Cuttings strike root freely 
in sand, under a hand glass, in heat. 
C. anguifuga (snake-defeating). Л. white; racemes panicled. 
June. 1, оо acuminated °ч stipules very short, broad, each 
ending ina short point. A. 3ft. to 4%, Brazil, 1824. 
С. racemosa (racemose).* fl., corollas at first white and scentless, 
but at length becoming ‘yellowish and sweet-scented; racemes 
many-flowe February. 1. ovate, lanceolate, smooth; stipules 
mucronate. A. 4ft. to 6ft. West Indies, 1729, : 
CHIONANTHUS (from chion, snow, and anthos, а. 
flower; referring to the snow-white flowers). Fringe-tree. 
ORD. Oleacee. Hardy low trees or shrubs, having the 
branchlets compressed at the top. Flowers in gracefully 
drooping panicles, from lateral buds. Leaves opposite, 
simple, entire. This genus differs from Olea principally 
in the segments of the corolla being barely united at the 
base. C. virginica is a fine. large ornamental hardy 
shrub; it requires to be grown in moist soil, either sandy 
peat or sandy loam, in a sheltered situation. Propagation 
may be effected by seeds or by layers. 
proenrable from America, and raised in a cold frame; and, 
as the plant does not root very readily, this is the best 
way to increase it. By grafting or budding it on the 
common Ash, it succeeds very well. 
C. retusus (retuse-leaved). н, sweet-scented. May. l long- 
) iry beneath. China, 1850. A low 
to t. Nort 
CHIONODOXA (from chion, snow, and doga, glory ; 
in reference to the plants flowering among the melting 
snows of their native habitats). Orn. Liliacem. А small 
genus containing the three species here described— hardy 
spring-flowering bulbs. 1% comes near Puschkinia, with 
which, indeed, it is sometimes confounded. Perianth ro- 
tate, campanulate, or funnel-shaped; the equal ligulate, 
Fig. 430. CHIONODOXA LUCILLE, showing Flower-spike and Habit. 
spreading segments in the expanded flower two or 
th 
times е. long as the tube. б. Lucilio may be олш 
enr. and forces well if allowed first to make good roots 
big treated like the Hyacinth. It should be kept 
Seeds are easily | 
Chionodoxa — continued. 
very near the glass. -Although it does remarkably well 
out of doors, perfection is best attained by growing it 
in cold pits or under handlights. All the species succeed 
admirably in a compost of equal parts peat, loam, and 
sand, also in leaf mould and sand. Propagated by offsets; 
or by seeds, which are produced freely, and should be 
sown in drills outside as soon as ripe.. The young bulbs 
should not be disturbed for three years. 
C. cretica (Cretan). Л. white or pale blue; scape slender, біп. to 
10in. high, rarely more than one or р рылып. f ; perianth some- 
what larger than that of С, nana, which this species otherwise 
resembles, Mountains of Crete. 
С. Forbesii (Forbes’s). А synonym of C. Lucilic. 
C. Luciliz (Lucilia’s).* /l. intense blue, shading to white in the 
centre, nearly lin. across, on slender pedicels; spike usually 
three to six-flowered, but sometimes nearly twenty flowers are 
produced. Spring. J. few, narrow, erect. h. біп. Asia Minor 
and Crete, 1877. This is, perhaps, one of the handsomest of 
Spring flowers of recent introduction. Syn. C. Forbesii. 
ig. 450. (B. M. 6435.) There is also a white-flowered form. 
С, nana (dwarf)* fl. white, lilac, jin. across, in many-flowered 
umbels. Spring. J. linear, shorter than the peduncle. А. 4in. 
Crete, 1879. (B. M. 6453.) 
CHIONOGRAPHIS (from chion, snow, and graphis, 
a pencil ; the flower-spike being like a brush of snow). 
ORD. Liliacee. A very remarkable and ornamental herba- 
ceous perennial, requiring slight protection outside in 
winter, It thrives in a compost of loam, peat, and sand. 
i i ыи if necessary, by seeds, or by divisions of the 
roots. 
C. japonica (Ja anese)* jl. pure white, closely packed along a 
space of 4in. to bin., spicate ; perianth ents variable, four to 
A nr e Бо. Spring. cy Armes in tufts at the bottom of 
» e 5 i 3 
1880." (B. M: 6510.) y bra h. біп. to 1ft. Japan, 
CHIRITA (from Cheryta, the Hindostanee name for 
the Gentian plant) Овр. Gesneracee. Greenhouse or 
stove evergreen herbaceous plants or shrubs. Corolla 
tubular, bilabiate ; calyx five-cleft, valvate in sestivation. 
For culture, see Gloxinia. 
C. lilacina (lilac).* 7. v beauti i 
abundance; corolla lo malo blue: taba da Ке» 
base. 
es pale blue; tube and throat white; 
of tube ornamented with à large yellow blotch ab the 
QNNM, 1870. This charming plant is very ornamental and effec- 
C. Moonii (Moon's)* fl. pale purple; c n 
duncles axillary, solitary or rie IS er sho ў petiolate; 
three to four ina whorl, ovate-lanceolat utish, obsol 
glandularly serrated. Branches blunt sy onal, р ас. 
villous. А. 2ft. Ceylon, 1847. Stove; tp M408) 
Fic. 431. CHIRITA SINENSIS. 
