224 THE DICTIONARY 
CHAMELUM (from chamelos, low, humble; in allu- 
sion to the habit of the plant). Orb. Irideex, A small 
genus (two species) of half-hardy, perennial herbs, natives 
of Chili. Flowers two or more in a spathe, very shortly 
pedicellate ; perianth yellow, the tube slenderly funnel- 
shaped, the lobes sub-equal, erecto-patent ; stamens affixed 
to the throat, the filaments connate in a cylindrical tube ; 
spathes terminal, solitary or numerously aggregate. Leaves 
few, linear, rather broad, or sub-terete. C. lutewm is 
known to cultivation. It thrives in well-drained, sandy 
loam, and may be propagated by division of the rootstock. 
In many parts of England it would probably prove hardy. 
C. luteum (yellow). /l., perianth 2in. long, highly glabrous, the 
limb segments lanceolate-linear ; spathes two or three, erect, 
l4in. long, glabrous, striated and pubescent at apex, sharply 
mucronate ; scape terete, eight lines long, two-flowered. J. linear- 
filiform, erect, recurved, 2sin. long, scarcely half-a-line broad, 
shortly whitish-pubescent. 1884, . G. 1129, f. 6-9.) 
CHAMOMILLA (in part). 
(which see). 
CHAMORCHIS. 
see), 
CHARDOON. See Cardoon. 
CHARITY. See Polemonium ceruleum. 
CHARLES’S SCEPTRE. See Pedicularis Scep- 
trum-Carolinum. 
CHARLWOODIA. Included under Cordyline (which 
see). 
CHARTACEOUS. Resembling parchment or tough 
writing;paper in texture. 
aaa aes A synonym of Uniola (which 
see). 
CHASTE TREE. Sce Vitex Agnus-castus. 
CHATELANIA. A synonym of Tolpis (which see). 
CHAYOTA. A synonym of Sechium (which see). 
CHEILANTHES. Lip Fern. Including Allosorus 
(in part), Myriopteris, Plecosorus, Schizopteris. Upwards of 
sixty species, many of them extending beyond the tropics, 
are embraced in this genus, in which there is no British 
representative. It is strikingly distinct, and includes some of 
the most elegant and beautiful Ferns in cultivation. They 
are all of an evergreen nature, and although coming 
principally from the Tropics the majority of them thrive best 
in a house where the temperature seldom exceeds 60deg. 
with artificial heat ; a good many of them are eyen suited 
Included under Alyssum 
Included under Herminium (which 
with a minimum greenhouse temperature of 45deg. in winter. 
This is no doubt owing to their being found in their native 
habitats at great elevations and in dry, rocky, exposed 
situations. Anyhow, wherever Cheilanthes are seen at a 
disadvantage and in bad condition, it is invariably due to 
their being kept in an oyer-heated, close stove, and 
deoamently syringed—treatment which produces shapeless, 
emaciated plants deprived of all beauty. They should be 
grown as near to the light as possible, either on shelves 
against the glass, or in hanging baskets suspended from the 
roof, for which purpose some of them are very well adapted. 
No overhead watering or syringing should at any time be 
allowed, as this is quite as injurious to them as any extra 
heat; but they should be supplied with an abundance of 
water at the roots, and for this purpose they must be either 
potted or basketed in good fibrous peat and sand, with their 
crowns kept well above the rim of the pot. The compost 
should be very porous, and to that effect a small portion of 
sandstone and charcoal broken up into little pieces should 
be added to it. For the successful management of these 
charming Ferns, the two great evils to be avoided are 
strong, close heat and overhead moisture, and the points 
most beneficial to their welfare are abundance of water at 
the roots, an open, porous compost for them to grow in, a 
somewhat airy atmosphere, and plenty of light overhead. 
Most of the Cheilanthes, if not all, reproduce themselves 
freely and true from spores, which germinate very readily 
and form young plants in a comparatively short time. 
To those described on pp. 307-9, Vol. I., the following 
should be added : 
Cc. aurea (golden). sti. tufted, 2in. to 3in. long, ebeneous, 
slightly scaly. fronds 3in. long, deltoid, twice or thrice pinnatifid, 
OF GARDENING, 
Cheilanthes—continued. 
yellow-mealy above, the under-surface covered with dense yellow 
owder; pinne deltoid, the lowest much the largest. sori, 
involucres broad and membranous. Peru and Guatemala. 
Stove. Syns. C. Borsigiana, Aleuritopteris aurea. 
C. Borsigiana (Borsig’s). A synonym of C. aurea. 
Fic, 239. CHEILANTHES FARINOSA. 
C. californica (Californian). «A synonym of Hypolepis cali- 
Sornica. 
C. candida (white). A synonym of Nothochlena sulphurea. 
Cc. chlorophylla (green-fronded). rhiz. stout, paleaceous. sti. 
contiguous, lft. to 14ft. long, erect, polished, naked, dark chestnut- 
brown. fronds lft. to 14ft. long, 4in. to 8in. broad, ovate-lanceo- 
late, tripinnatifid ; pinne 3in. to 5in. lofig, Zin. to l4in. broad, 
distant, lanceolate ; pinnules lanceolate, cut down to the rachis 
into numerous entire, linear-oblong segments. sori numerous, 
small, roundish, placed on both edges. South America, 1883. 
Greenhouse. Syn. Hypolepis spectabilis (H. 8. F. ii , 88 8). 
Fic. 240. FROND OF CHEILANTHES HIRTA. 
Cc. cuneata (wedge-shaped). sti. red, turning blackish with age. 
fronds glabrous, coriaceous, dull green, tri- or quadripinnate, 
cuneate or broadly-ovate, 1ft. to 1sft. long (of which more than 
half is naked); pinne and pinnules ovate, acuminate. sorie 
continuous all along the margins of the segments. Mexico. 
Greenhouse. Syn. C. rufescens (of gardens). 
