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Calla. continued. 



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 africana 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-lie stamens. 1. stalked, emerging from a sheath ft. 6m. 

 Hardy aquatic, naturalised here and there in Britain. See 

 Fig. 326. 



CALLI. Small callosities, or little protuberances. 

 CAZiLIANDRA (from kallos, beauty, and andros, a 

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

 stamens). OBD. Leguminosce. A genus of beautiful stove 

 evergreen shrubs. Flowers usually borne on stalked glo- 

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

 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, under a hand glass, in heat. 

 C. Harris!! (Harris's), fl. pink; peduncles axillary, fascicled, 

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

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

 h. 10ft. Mexico, 1838. (B. M. 4238.) 



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

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

 four pairs of pinnae ; leaflets numerous, oblong-linear, acutish, 

 ciliated, pilose beneath ; stipules ovate, acuminate. Branches 

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



CALLICARPA (from kallos, beauty, and karpos, 

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

 ORD. Verbenacece. 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 berry 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 2iin. 

 pots, 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 60deg. to 75deg. Pinch out the 

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

 and whenever 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 beginning of August, 

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

 shift will be into 4in. or 5in. pots. They should always 

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

 come into flower." 



C. amerioana (American), fl. red, small, in axillary cymes. 

 Bwries violet-coloured. I. ovate-oblong, toothed, silvery beneath, 

 with a scurf of tomentum. A. 6ft. South America, 1724. Green- 

 house 



C. japonlca (Japanese), fl. pink. August. I. stalked, ovate, 

 oblong, acuminate, serrate. ft. 3ft. Japan, 1850. Stove. 



C. lanata (woolly). /. purplish. June. Berries purple. I. sessile, 

 ovate, acuminate, serrate, hairy beneath, ft. 3ft. India, 1788. 



C. purpurea (purple), 'fl. insignificant, borne in cymose clusters, 

 upon axillary footstalks. Berries very numerous, bright glossy 

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

 ?o2n us( 3? clotne < 1 ' a f. w ell as the stem, with hairs. A. 3ft. India, 

 1822. Stove (Garden, June, 1833.) 



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



CALLICHROA (from kallos, beauty, and chroa, 

 colour; referring to the bright yellow colour of the flowers). 

 ORD. CompositcB. This genus is now usually included 

 under Layia. 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-tongued). fl.-htads yellow, solitary, 

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

 sessile, ciliated, ft. 1ft. California, 1836. SYN. Layia platy. 

 glossa. (B. M. 3719.) 



CALLICOMA (from kallos, beauty, and kome, hair ; in 

 reference to the tufted heads of flowers). OBD. Saxifragece. 

 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, fl. yellow. May to 

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

 the base. ft. 4ft. New South Wales, 1793. (B. M. 1811.) 

 CALLIGONUM (from kallos, beauty, and gonw, a knee- 

 joint; in reference to its leafless joint). SYNS. Pallasia, 

 Pterococcus. OBD. Polygonacece. 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). fl. whitish, in groups. May. fr. winged; 



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



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



Shoots rush-like, smooth, green, h. 3ft. to 4ft. Caspian Sea, 



1780. 



CALLIOPSIS. See Coreopsis. 



CALLIFRORA (from kallos, beauty, and prora, a 

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

 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 

 bulbs until they are a good size. 



C. lutea (yellow).* Pretty Face. /., segments purplish-brown 

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

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

 sheathing, scarious, much shorter than the pedicels. A. 9in. 

 North California, 1831. SYNS. Broditea ixioides, Milla ixiaidet, 

 (B. M. 3588.) 



CALLIPSYCHE (from kallos, beauty, and psyche, a 

 butterfly; alluding to the handsome flowers). OBD. 

 Amaryllidea;. 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 growing, and, 

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

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

 water should be gradually withheld. 



C. aurantiaca (orange).* fl. deep golden-yellow, several in 

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

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

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

 6in. long. Andes of Ecuador, 1868. (Bef. B. 167.) 



C. euorosiodes (Eucrosia-like).* fl. scarlet and green ; stamens 

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

 1. few, green, tessellated, pitted, 4in. wide. A. 2ft. Mexico, 1843. 

 (B. B. 1845, 45.) 



C. mirabilis (wonderful).* fl. 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 blossoms ; 

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

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

 CALLIPTERIS (from kallos, beauty, and pteris, a 



fern). OBD. Filices. A genus of stove ferns, founded 



upon the sub-genus Diplazium, which is now included 



under Asplenium. 



CALLIRHOE (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. 



