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CETONIA 



Green, brown. Transvaal. 



C. e'legans (elegant). 20. Purple. August. E. Ind. 



1828. Deciduous twiner. 

 Gardne'ri (Gardner's). White, chocolate. Ceylon. 



1862. 

 gemmifera (bud-bearing). Green, brown, black, 



yellow. W. Trop. Africa. 1903. 

 hirsu'ta (hairy). 20. Purple. September. Bombay. 



1837. 

 ., hy'brida (hybrid). Natural hybrid between C, similis 



and C. Sandersonii. 



ju'ncen (rushy), i. Yellow. E. Ind. 1822. Ever- 

 green. 



Lu'shii (Dr. Lush's). See C. BULBOSA. 

 Monteiro'a (Mrs. Monteiro's). White and green, 



spotted purple-brown. Delagoa Bay. 

 ocula'ia (round-spotted). 6. Green. Red-spotted. 



September. Bombay. 1842. Deciduous twiner. 

 per fora' fa (perforated). New Guinea. 

 Renda'Uii (Kendall's). 



1909. 



si'milis (similar). White or pale green. 1906. 

 Thwai'tesii (Mr. Thwaites's). 2$. Red, yellow, green. 



September. Ceylon. 1851. 

 tubero'sa ^tuberous). 8. Red, green. May. E. Ind. 



1821. Tuberous perennial. 

 vincafo'lia (vinca-leaved). See C. HIRSUTA. 

 Wi'ghtii (Dr. Wight's). 20. Green, purple. August. 



E. Ind. 1832. Deciduous climber. 



CERO XYLON. (Derived from keros, wax, and xulon, 

 wood ; wax exudes from the stem. Nat. ord. Pal- 

 maceae.) 



Stove Palms. Seeds are occasionally imported. Should 

 be started in heat, and given loam and sand. When well 

 advanced a little manure may be added to the soil. 

 Seeds must be sown as soon as received, and plants grown 

 on in a moderate stove temperature. 

 C. andi'cola (Andean-native), so. Colombia. 1845. 



" Wax Palm." 



ferrugi'neum (rusty). Colombia. 1879. 

 ni'veum (snowy). See DIPLOTHEMIUM CAUDESCENS. 



CESPEDFSIA. (In honour of Juan Maria Cespedes, 

 of Santa Fe de Bogota. Nat. ord. Ochnacea?.) 



Stove trees, requiring similar treatment to Gomphia 

 and Ochna. 

 C. Bonpla'ndii (Bonpland's). Orange-yellow. Colombia. 



1878. 



dfscolor (two- coloured). Yellow. Leaves highly 

 coloured when young. S. Amer. 1903. 



CE'STRUM. (An ancient Greek name for another 

 plant. Nat. ord. Nightshades [Solanaceae]. Linn. $-Pen- 

 tandria, i-Monogynia. Includes Habrothamnus.) 



Cuttings in sand, in heat, in April ; peat and loam. 

 Of easy culture. With the exception of tincto'rium, which 

 is used for dyeing, and the few others we have selected, 

 none are worth cultivating, being chiefly poisonous 

 plants of no beauty. There are several other species. 

 Those we have described are stove evergreen shrubs, 

 except where otherwise indicated. The most useful species 

 of this genus are C. aurantiacum, which makes a good pot 

 plant when strong cuttings are rooted early in the spring 

 and grown under cool greenhouse treatment, and C. 

 elegans, which may be treated as a wall plant, and keeps 

 up a succession of bloom almost all the year through, 

 and in the south of England it will live through the 

 winter in the open. It is better known in gardens as 

 Habrothamnus elegans, and there is a variety with deeper 

 coloured flowers known as " Newelli," which is a greater 

 favourite than elegans, and is supposed to be a hybrid, 

 but is simply an improved variety raised from seed. 

 C. alaternoi'dfs (alaternus-like). 6. Yellowish. March. 

 Trinidad. 1824. 



anguslifo'lium (narrow-leaved). Yellow. W. Ind. 

 1800. 



auranti'acum (orange-colouied-flowered). 3. Orange 

 Guatemala. 1842. Greenhouse. 



Bentha'mi (Bentham's). Purple. August. Mexico. 

 1844. 



bractea'tum (bracteated). Green. Brazil. 1852. 



calyci'num (large calyxed) of Willdenow. See C. 



VIRIDIFLOROM. 



cauliflo'rum (stem-flowering). See ACNISTUS ARBORE- 



SCENS. 



C. corymbo'sum (corymbose) of Endlicher. See C. END- 



LICHERI. 



cya'neum (blue). See IOCHROMA TUBULOSA. 

 diu'rnum (day-flowering). White. W. Ind. 

 e'legans (elegant). 8 to 10. Rose. Summer. Mexico. 



1844. Greenhouse. 

 EndlicMri (Endlicher's). 6. Rose. March. Peru. 



1844. Greenhouse. 

 fascicula'tum (fascicled). 8 to 12. Red. March. 



Mexico. 1843. Greenhouse. 



fastigia'tum (erect). White. November. W. Ind. 

 fcetidi'ssimum (very foetid). See C. NOCTURNUM. 

 Hartwe'gi (Hartweg's). 8. Crimson. Mexico. 



Greenhouse. 

 pube'scens (downy). Crimson. Very downy. 



1883. Greenhouse. 

 Huge'lii (Hugel's). See C. ELEGANS. 

 latifo'lium (broad-leaved). 6. White. June. Trini- 

 dad. 1818. 

 laurifo'lium (Laurel-leaved). Yellow. Autumn and 



Winter. S. Amer. 

 nervo'sum (nerved). See TABERN^MONTANA AMYGDA- 



L^EFOLIA. 

 Newe'llii (Newell's). 8 to 10. Bright crimson. 



Greenhouse. 



noctu'rnum (night-flowering). S. Amer. 

 odontospe'rmum( toothed-seeded). White. September. 



S. Amer. 

 Pa'rqui (Parque's). Yellowish. June. Trop. Amer. 



1787. 



penduli'num (pendulous). White. December. Col- 

 ombia. 

 ro'seum (rose-coloured). 3. Rose. July. Mexico. 



1839. 



salicif o'lium( willow-leaved). Pale yellow. Venezuela. 

 Scho'ttii (Schott's). Brazil. 

 Smi'thii (Smith's). Silvery pink. Garden hybrid. 



1901. 



subero'sum (cork-barked). 5. Sulphur. June. 1815. 

 tincto'rium (dyeing). 4. White. May. Caraccas. 



1823. 

 vesper ti'num (evening-flowering). White. Winter. 



W. Ind. 

 viridiflo'rum (green-flowered). Yellow-green. Brazil. 



1836. 

 Warscewi'czii (Warscewicz's). Orange and yellow. 



November. S. Amer. 1852. 



CE'TERACH OFFICINA'RUM. See ASPLENIUM CETK- 

 RACH. 



CEIO'NIA AURA'TA. Golden Rose-Beetle. This in- 

 sect is the Scarabceus auratus of some naturalists. The 

 grub is of a dirty-white colour, and the tail-end thicker 

 and more highly glazed than the remainder of its body. 

 It is usually found in decayed wood ; but, being occa- 

 sionally discovered in the nest of the ant, underground, 

 where it seems to feed upon the bits of wood of which 

 the nest is composed, it thence has the popular name of 

 " King of the Ants." After remaining about three years 

 in the larva state, it makes a sort of cocoon of chips of 

 wood, glued together by an excretion of its own. In 

 this it passes the winter, and in June following emerges 

 in the perfect form. The Rose Beetle flies well, with a 

 considerable humming noise, during the hottest part of 

 the day, passing from flower to flower, preferring, but 

 not exclusively, our roses. It robs them of their honey ; 

 but not content with this, devours, occasionally, their 

 nectaries, and the lowermost, juicy portion of the petals. 

 The perfect insect is, therefore, the harmful stage of 

 this enemy. The beetle is of a shining green- 

 colour above, and the wing-sheaths dotted with white. 

 Beneath, the body and head are coppery-red. The 

 Cottage Gardener, iii. 341. 



This beetle is most severely felt by the gardener when 

 it attacks the blossoms of his strawberries, which it 

 does in May or J une ; but it also attacks the whitethorn, 

 candytuft, elder, mountain-ash, and paeony, the flowers 

 of which it feeds upon. The female rose-chafers often 

 lay their eggs in the ground ; and the larvae they produce 

 are no doubt often confounded with those of the cock- 

 chafer (Melolontha vulgaris), being as large, and very 

 similar. 



The beetle is of large size and easily caught in the 

 early morning while resting upon various bushes. Later 

 on, especially on bright days, it is more active and less 



