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Calla — continue d. 

 America, has creeping or floating stems, and cordate entire 

 leaves. C. palustris is sometimes grown in collections 

 of aquatics or bog plants ; and, although, perhaps, hardly 

 worth cultivating as a pot plant, is well worth a place in 

 open ornamental waters. Richardia cethiopica is fre- 

 quently erroneously called Calla cethiopica. 



C. palustris (marsh). /., spadix protected by a flat white 

 spathe, upper ones female, lower hermaphrodite, with numerous 

 thread-like stamens, l. stalked, emerging from a sheath.^ k. bin. 

 Hardy aquatic, naturalised here and there in Britain. See 

 Fij,'. 526. 



CAIiIiI. Small callosities, or little protuberances. 

 CAIiIiIANDRA (from hallos, beauty, and andros, a 

 stamen ; referring to the elegant long, silky, purple or white 

 stamens). Ord. Lerjuminosce. A genus of beautiful stove 

 evergreen shrubs. Flowers usually borne on stalked glo- 

 bose heads ; corollas small, hidden by the numerous tila- 

 ments of the stamens. Leaves bipinnate ; leaflets varying 

 in size and number, They thrive in a compost of peat 

 and loam. Propagated by cuttings of rather firm young 

 wood, inserted in sand, tmder a hand glass, in heat. 

 C. HarrisU (Harris's). Ji. pink; peduncles axillary, fascicled, 

 glandularly downy. February. I. bipinnate ; leaflets obovate, 

 falcate, downy ; stipules sniall, falcate. Branches puberulous. 

 k. 10ft. Mexico, 1858. (B. M. 4238.) 

 C Tweediei (Tweedie's).* /i. red; peduncles longer than the 

 petioles; bracts linear. March and April. I. with three or 

 four i>airs of pinnw ; leaflets numerous, oblong-linear, acutish, 

 ciliated, pilose lieneath ; stipules ovate, acuminate. Branches 

 and petioles pUose. h. 6ft. Brazil, 1840. (B. M. 4188.) 



CAIiIiICARPA (from l;allos, beauty, and karpos, 

 fruit; referring to the beautiful berries). Syn. Porphyra. 

 Ord. Verbcnac'.ur. A genus of stove, greenhouse, or 

 nearly hardy evergreen shrubs, closely allied to Petrcea. 

 Flowers inconspicuous, disposed in axillary cymes; co- 

 rolla-tube short, with the limb four-lobed. Fruit a very 

 ornamental small juicy beriy or drupe. The following 

 mode of culture has been recommended : " After the old 

 plants have been cut back in the spring, and started into 

 growth, the young shoots will strike as readily as a Fuchsia, 

 and with exactly the same treatment. In order to make 

 good plants, short-jointed cuttings should be selected ; and, 

 as soon as these are struck, they should be potted into 2;Vin. 

 jjots, using a compost of equal parts loam and peat, with a 

 little charcoal and river sand. When they commence to 

 grow, after being potted, remove to a pit or house with a 

 temperature ranging from OOdeg. to 75deg. Pinch out the 

 tops of the plants as soon as they have three pairs of leaves, 

 and wlienever each of the laterals has made two pairs of 

 leaves, pinch out their points, and continue this operation 

 with all the rest of the shoots till the begiiming of August, 

 at the same time keeping off all the flower-buds. The next 

 shift will be into 4in. or Sin. pots. They should always 

 have plenty of light and air, but more especially after they 

 come into flower." 



C. americana (American), ji. red, small, In axillary c>Tnes. 

 Berries violet-coloured. /. ovate-oblong, toothed, silvery beneath, 

 with a scurf of touientum. h. 6ft. South America, 1724. Green- 

 house 



C, japonica (Japanese), jl. pink. August. I. stalked, ovate, 

 obloiio:, acuminate, serrate. h. 3ft. Japan, 1850. Stove. 

 (L. A P. F. G. ii., p. 165.) 



C. lanata (woolly), jl. purplish. June. Berries purple. L sessile, 

 ovate, aciuninate. serrate, hairy Ijeiieath h. 3ft. India, 1788. 

 JStove. (S. F. d. J. 1861, p. 96.) 



C. purpurea (purple), ji. insignificant, borne in cyraose clusters, 

 upon axillary footstalks. Berries very numerous, bright glossy 

 deep violet coloured. L opposite, ovate, acuminate; edges serrated; 

 profusely clothed, as well as the stem, \vith hairs, h. 3ft. India, 

 1822. Stove (Garden, June, 1833.) 



C. rubella (reddish) ^. red. May. I. sessile, obovate, acumi- 

 nate, curdatt^ at the biise, hairy on both surfaces. A. 2ft. China, 

 1822. Hulf-liardy. (11 U. 885.) 



CAIiIiICHROA (from hallos, beauty, and c/iroo, 

 colour; referring to tlie biiglit yellow colour of the flowers). 

 Ord. ComposiUv. This genus is now usually included 

 under Ldijia. Hardy annual, of easy culture in common 



Callicliroa — continued. 

 garden soil. Seeds may be sown in March, on a slight 

 hotbed, and transplanted to the open border early in May; 

 or if sown out of doors in April, it will flower in the 

 autumn. 

 C. platyglossa (broad-ton ?ued). fi.-hends yellow, .-solitary, 



pedunculate ; ray florets large, cuneate. Autumn. I. alternate, 



sessile, ciliated, h. Ift California, 1836. Syn. Layia platy- 



glossa. (Ii. M. 3719.) 



CAIiIiICOBIA (from hallos, beauty, and home, hair ; in 

 reference to the tufted heads of flowers). Ord. Saxifrages. 

 A greenhouse evergreen shrub. Flowers capitate ; heads 

 terminating the tops of the branchlets, pedunculate, globose. 

 Leaves simple, coarsely serrated, stalked. Stipules mem- 

 branous, bidentate, caducous. It thrives well in a sandy 

 peat soil. Half ripened cuttings will root if placed in the 

 same sort of soil, under a hand glass. 



C. serratifolia (saw-leaved). Black Wattle, jd. yellow. May to 

 August. /. lanceolate, acuminate, hoary beneath, attenuated at 

 the base. h. Aft. New South Wales, 1793. (B. 31. 1811.) 



CAIiIiIGONUM (from fcalEos, beauty, and ^o?i?t, a knee- 

 joint ; in reference to its leafless joint). Obd. Polygonacew. 

 Syns. Pallasia, Pterococcus. A genus containing about a 

 score species of very curious, erect, evergreen, hardy 

 shrubs, found growing in dry, arid, sandy spots in Northern 

 Africa and Western Asia. They will thrive in any well- 

 drained sandy loam. Cuttings will root in spring or 

 autumn if placed under a hand glass. 



C. Pallasia (Pallas's). ,rf. whitish, in groups. May. /r. winded; 

 winss membranous, curled and toothed, succulent, acid, edible. 

 I. simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous, caducous, minute. 

 Shoots rush-like, smooth, gi-een. h. 5ft. to 4ft. Caspian Sea, 

 1780. 



CAIiIiIOFSIS. See Coreopsis. 



CAIiIiIFRORA (from hallos, beauty, and prora, a 

 front ; referring to the front view of the flower). Ord. 

 LiliacecB. A very pretty little bulbous plant, now often 

 referred to Brodicea. It thrives in a well- drained spot 

 on the lower flanks of rockwork, in dry, rich, sandy soil. 

 Propagated by offsets, which should remain on the parent 

 biilbs until thoy are a good size. 



C. lutea (yellow).* Pretty Face. Jl., segments purplLsh -brown 

 in the niidiUe on the outside. Summer. I. linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminated, channelled, longer than the flower-stem ; bracts 

 sheathinir, scarious, much shorter than the pedicels, k. 9in. 

 North California, 1831. Syn'S. Brodicsa ixioides, MUla ixwides. 

 (B. M. 3588.) 



CAIiLIFSTCHi: (from hallos, beauty, and psyche, a 

 butterfly; alluding to the handsome flowers). Ord. 

 Amaryllidacea^. Ornamental greenhouse bulbs; requiring 

 shade, and a compost of rich sandy loam and leaf mould, 

 with good drainage. Propagated by seeds and offsets. 

 They should have plenty of water when grrowing, and, 

 during tlie winter, be kept moderately dry, but not dried 

 off, so as to cause them to shrivel. As the leaves wither, 

 water should bo gradually withheld, 



C. aurantiaca (orange).* Jl. deep gold en -yellow, several in 

 an umbel, spreading, much flattened sideways ; stamens green, 

 twice the length of the perianth ; scape erect, nearly 2ft. high. 

 I. few, oblnng-acute, bright green, conspicuously veined, stalked, 

 bin. long. Andes of Ecuador. 1868. (Ref. B. 167.) 



C. eucrosiodes (Eucrosia-like).* Jl. scarlet and gi-een; stamens 

 very long, incurved ; scape about ten-flowered, glaucous. March. 

 I. few, liTeen, tessellated, pitted, 4in. wide. h. ^ft. Mexico, 1843. 

 (B. R. 1845, 45.) 



C. xnirabilis (wonderful).* Jl. greenish-yellow, small, with stamens 

 three times as long as the perianth, and spreading out on all 

 sides ; disposed in an umbellate head of about thirty blooms ; 

 scape 3ft. high. I. about two, oblong-spathulate, green, 1ft. long. 

 Peru, 1868. An extremely curious plant. (Ref. B. 168.) 



CAIiIiIFTZiRIS (from hallos, beauty, and pferis, a 

 fern). Ord. Filires. A genns of stove ferns, founded 

 upon the sub-genus Diplaziiim, which is now included 

 under Asj^lenium. 



CAIiIiIBiHOZ! {of mythological origin, from Callirhoe, 

 a daughter of the river-god Achelous). Poppy-Mallow. 

 Allied to Malva. Species belonging to this genus have 

 been erroneously referred to Malva and Nuttallia. Ord. 



