Chrysanthemum—continued. 
yellow; Mrs. B. WYNNE, white, rose shade; Mrs. DOUGLAS, 
creamy-white, recurved petals; MRs. GOLDRING, orange- 
yellow ground-colour; Mrs. H. CANNELL, pure white, large, 
handsome flower; Mrs. J. WRIGHT, pure white, handsome 
variety; PELICAN, white, broad florets; PHa:BuUs, rich, clear 
yellow; Pierro Diaz, deep red and yellow reflex; RALPH 
BROCKLEBANK, yellow (sport from MEG MERRILEES); ROI DES 
JAPONAIS, reddish-maroon, broad florets, centre incurved ; 
ROSEUM SUPERBUM, rose-lilac, brownish-yellow tips; SOUVENIR 
DU JAPON, lilac and purple, yellowish centre; VAL D’'ANDORRE, 
reddish-brown, orange shade; WILLIAM ROBINSON, orange- 
salmon; WILLIAM STEVENS, orange-red. 
Single-flowered. ApMIRAL Sir T. Symonps, large, yellow ; 
CRUSHED STRAWBERRY, reddish-pink ; HELIANTHUS, rich yellow ; 
JANE, white; LapY CHURCHILL, yellowish-buff; MARIGOLD, 
brownish-crimson ; MARY ANDERSON, pink, one of the best ; MIss 
CANNELL, pure white, very beautiful; Miss ELLEN TERRY, ma- 
genta; Miss Rose, blush; Mrs. JouN WILLS, white, tinged 
pink; OCEANA, blush; ORIFLAMME, brown; QUEEN OF THE 
YELLOWS ; SCARLET GEM; SIMS REEVES, chestnut-red; W. A. 
HARRIS, bronze. 
Early-flowering Varieties, ALICE BUTCHER, red; BLUSHING 
BRIDE, pink ; GENTILESSE, sulphur, pink tint ; GOLDEN MADAME 
DESGRANGE, yellow; HERMINE, dwarf, white; ILLUSTRATION, 
pink and white ; La Petite MaRIkg, pure white ; FLORA, yellow ; 
LA VieRGE, large white ; MRS. BURRELL, primrose; Mrs. CUL- 
LINGFORD, white; PIERRE VERFIEL, orange and red ; SALTER’S 
EARLY BLUSH, pale rose. 
CHRYSOPHYLLUM. This genus comprises about 
sixty species, mostly tropical American, a few being found 
in Africa, tropical Asia, Australia, and the Sandwich 
Islands. To those described on p. 325, Vol. I., the 
following should now be added: 
C.imperiale (imperial). 1. yellowish-green, fascicled at the sides 
of a branch as thick as the finger, pedicellate ; corolla sub-rotate, 
five-lobed. April. fr. the size of a small apple, obtusely five- 
angled. J. 3ft. long, 10in. broad, petiolate, obovate-oblong or 
oblong-oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, deeply serrated. Brazil. 
(B. M. 6823.) Syn. Vheophrasta imperialis (I. H. xxi. 184; 
R. G. 1864, 453.) 
CHUSQUEA (said to be the native name of some of 
the species in the West Indies). Syns. Dendragrostis, 
Rettbergia. Orv. Graminee. A genus embracing about 
thirty species of suffruticose or arborescent, sometimes 
climbing, American Grasses. Flowers in terminal panicles ; 
spikelets one-flowered, variously paniculate. C. abietifolia, 
the only species known to cultivation in this country, is an 
interesting and graceful, stove, climbing Bamboo. It 
thrives in well-drained loam, and is propagated either by 
means of imported seeds or by division of the root-stock. 
C. abietifolia (Abies-leaved). #. in racemes, terminating the 
leafy branches; spikelets green and purple, jin. to 4in. long. 
December. /. 4in. to jin. long, ;,in. broad, strict, erect, sessile 
on the sheath, linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Stems wiry, smooth, 
terete. Jamaica, 1885. (B. M. 6811.) 
CHYSIS. The six or eight species referred to this 
genus are natives of Mexico and Columbia. ‘To those 
described on pp. 326-7, Vol. I., the following should now 
be added: 
C. undulata (wavy). jl. ten to twelve in a raceme; sepals and 
petals of a lively orange-yellow; lip cream-coloured, marked with 
numerous lines of pink. Pseudo-bulbs 1}ft. high. Native 
country unknown. A rare but handsome species. 
CINERARIA. ‘The garden varieties are now more 
generally named. During the years 1886 and 1887 many 
distinct and handsome forms were exhibited. To those 
described on p. 330, Vol. I., the following should now be 
added : 
Single-flowered. BLuE CiRcLE, dark disk, white centre, light 
indigo-blue margin; DR. MASTERS, deep rosy-red, white centre, 
fine form; E. J. DowLING, dark blue, large flowers; MARCH 
Past, dark disk, white centre, broad margin of maroon-crim- 
son; Miss Cooper, dark disk, pure white centre, indigo-blue 
margin; MR. ;ALEXANDER, chocolate-purple; MRS. TUCKER, 
rosy-pink, tinted lilac; Rev. J. H. WALTON, pure white centre, 
rich clear magenta margin; SPECIAL FAVOURITE, magenta ; 
Victory, deep rich crimson self. 
Double-flowered. ADVANCE, violet-blue; ASPASIA, deep blue; 
CRIMSON KING; Faust, clear bright rose; Germ, bright lilac- 
pink; MAUVE QUEEN, mauve, with violet tinge ; Miss CANNELL, 
white, tipped magenta; NELLIE, clear pink, white edge; PER- 
FECTION, rosy-red. 
CIRRHOPETALUM. The species of this genus are 
mostly natives of the Hast Indies or the Malayan Archi- 
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Cirrhopetalum—continued. 
pelago ; one is found in the Mascarene Islands, another in 
China, and a third in Australia. To those described on 
pp. 330-1, Vol. I., the following should now be added : 
c. Lendyanum (Leniy’s). //. whitish, with a greenish-yellow 
hue ; lateral sepals free, twice as long as the ligulate, acuminate 
upper one ; petals ligulate, acuminate ; lip compressed, bicarinate 
on the narrow upper side; raceme umbellate. /. cuneate-oblong, 
acute, minutely bilobed, purple beneath. Pseudo-bulbs pyriform- 
tetragonal, reddish. 1887. 
Cc. picturatum (picture). jl. 2in. or more in length; upper 
sepal 4in. long, with a terminal, purple thread sin. long; lateral 
sepals conniving into a pale, dirty green, convex blade; petals 
very small; umbel about ten-flowered; scape green, speckled 
with purple, 8in. to 10in. long; sheaths speckled red. /. solitary, 
3in. to 6in. long, ljin. broad, linear-oblong. Pseudo-bulbs tufted. 
Moulmein, 1885. (3. M. 6802.) 
Cc. pulchrum (beautiful). #., dorsal sepal purple, dotted with 
fuscous-purple, the lateral ones connate in a yellow, purple- 
blotched, linear-oblong, obtuse lamina, 1}in. long ; petals purple, 
faleate ; lip purple, linear-oblong, recurved; pedicels din. long ; 
umbel about seven-flowered ; scape erect, 4in. to Sin. long. 
1. oblong, obtuse and emarginate at apex, narrowed at base, 
thick. Halmahera, 1886. 
C. stragularium (curtained). /., middle sepal spotted purple, 
purple at top, elliptic, cucullate, the lateral ones swphur, blotched 
and spotted purple; petals yellowish, spotted purple, brownish- 
purple at apex; lip numerously spotted with blackish-purple, 
curved, with two divaricate angles near the base, convolute. 
1. petiolate, cuneate-oblong, blunt, 6in. to Tin. Jong. 1887. This 
“*may be the same as C. pulchrum” (H. G. Reichenbach), 
CITRUS. This genus embraces, according to Bent- 
ham and Hooker, about five species, natives of tropical 
India, and broadly cultivated over the tropical regions of 
the globe. Calyx cup-shaped or urceolate, three to five- 
cleft; petals four to eight, linear-oblong, thick, imbricated ; 
stamens twenty to sixty. Fruit globose or oblong, fleshy, 
many-celled. ‘To the species described on p. 335, Vol. L., 
the following variety should now be added: 
C. medica Riversii (Rivers’). Bijou Lemon, jl. white, small. 
fr. small, globose. J. elliptic, serrated, on short, wingless 
petioles. 1885. (B. M. 6807.) 
CLAVIJA. About twenty-five species, all tropical 
American, are here included. To those described on p. 336, 
Vol. I., the following should now be added: 
Cc. Ernstii (Ernst’s). ji. pendulous, jin. long ; corolla fleshy, the 
disk apricot-colour ; racemes 2in, to 4in, long, drooping, many- 
flowered. July. J. clustered at the ends of the branches, on 
long petioles, coriaceous, 12in. to l6in. long, 4in. to 6in. broad, 
pale beneath, elliptic-oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or oblanceolate, 
acute or sub-acute, entire. Trunk (in native specimens) 4ft. to 
5ft. high. Caraccas, 1879. (B. M. 6928.) 
CLEISOSTOMA. This genus cemprises about fifteen 
species, natives of the East Indies, the Malayan Archi- 
pelago, and tropical Australia. To those described on 
p. 337, Vol. I., the following should now be added: 
C. crassifolium (thick-leaved). jl. sea-green, with a rosy lip, 
small, produced in nodding panicles from the axils of the leaves. 
l. closely set, thick, leathery, much recurved, resembling those 
ofa Vanda. India, 1850. (L. J. F. 397; P. F. G. iii. 29.) 
CLEMATIS. About 100 species are included in this 
genus; they are mostly dispersed over temperate regions, 
and are rarely found within the tropics. To the species 
and varieties described on pp. 338-40, Vol. I., the following 
should now be added: 
Cc. reticulata (reticulated). #. dull greenish and_purplish, 
solitary, pendulous, on long peduncles; sepals connivent, re- 
curved at the tips. September. J. leathery, prominently reticu- 
lated; upper ones simple, elliptic; lower ones pinnate, with 
seven to nine variable leaflets. Southern United States, 1880. 
A rambling, hardy or nearly hardy climber. (B. M. 6574.) 
CG. rhodochlora (reddish-green). . about the size of those of 
C. Viticella ; two smaller sepals vinous-red above, paler towards 
the base, whitish flushed with red beneath ; larger sepals nearly 
double the size of the smaller ones, green, quite foliaceous. 
1. simple, broadly oval or sub-cordate, shortly stalked. 1887. 
Garden variety. 
C. stans (erect). /. opal-blue, sub-verticillately clustered, pen- 
dulous ; whorls disposed in a contracted, terminal panicle ; sepals 
linear, acuminate, recurved. September. /. trifoliolate ; leaflets 
obliquely roundish-ovate, acute, deeply toothed or somewhat 
lobed, wrinkled, the upper ones narrower. Stem erect, herba- 
eeioy’ softly pubescent. /. 2ft. to 3ft. Japan. Hardy. (B. M. 
