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CHINESE CHUBBY, DOUBLE. See Cerasus 

 serrnlata. 



CHINESE ROSE. See Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. 



CHIOCOCCA (from chion, snow, and lottos, a berry ; 

 the berries of C. raeemosa are white, hence it is called 

 Snowberry). Snowberry. OBD. Rubiaceas. Stove ever- 

 green shrubs, generally with a climbing habit. Racemes 

 axillary, opposite, simple, or panicled. Leaves opposite, 

 ovate, or oblong, acute, glabrous. They thrive in a mix- 

 ture of loam, peat, and sand. Cuttings strike root freely 

 in sand, under a hand glass, in heat. 

 C. angnifuga (snake-defeating). .*. white; racemes panicled. 



June. /. orate, acuminated; stipules rery short, broad, each 



ending in a short point A. 3ft to 4ft Brazil, 1824. 



continued. 



).* JL, corollas at first white and a 

 yellowish and sweet-scented ; 



but at length 



ed. February.' L orate, lanceolate, smooth': stipules 

 A. 4ft to 6ft West Indies, 1729. 



(from chion. snow, and anthos, a 

 flower ; referring to the snow-white flowers). Fringe-tree. 

 OBD. Oleacece. Hardy low trees or shrubs, having the 

 branchlets compressed at the top. Flowers in gracefully 

 drooping panicles, from Literal buds. Leaves opposite, 

 simple, entire. This genus differs from Olea principally 

 in the segments of the corolla being barely united at the 

 base. C. virginica is a fine large ornamental hardy 

 shrub ; it requires to be grown in moist soil, either sandy 

 peat or sandy loam, in a sheltered situation. Propagation 

 may be effected by seeds or by layers. Seeds are easily 

 procurable from America, and raised in a cold frame ; and, 

 as the plant does not root very readily, this is the best 

 way to increase it By grafting or budding it on the 

 common Ash, it succeeds very welL 

 C. returns (retnse-leaTed). JL white, sweet-scented. May. /. 

 stalked, oborate, retnse, hairy beneath, China, 1850. A 

 shrub. (L, & P. F. G. iii. 85.) 



C. virginica (Virginian).* JL white, pedicellate ; racemes terminal. 



May. L oral, oblong, or obovate-lanceolate, glabrous. A. 10ft 



to 30ft. Xorth America, 1796. Hardy. The scented flowers 



come out in May, banging in long bunches, and, from the corolla 



being cut into narrow segments, they give it the name of 



Fringe-tree. There are two or three forms of this species. 



CHIONODOXA (from chion, snow, and doxa. glory ; 



in reference to the plants flowering among the melting 



snows of their native habitats). OBD. LUiacece. A small 



genus containing the three species here described hardy 



spring-flowering bulbs. It comes near PuteTileinia, with 



which, indeed, it ia sometimes confounded. Perianth ro- 



tate, campanulate, or funnel-shaped; the equal ligulate, 



/. long- 

 low 



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FIG. 430. CHIONODOXA LUCILLE, showing Flower-spike and Habit 



spreading segments in the expanded flower two or three 

 times as long as the tube. C. Lucilice may be grown in 

 pots, and forces weU if allowed first to make good roots, 

 by being treated like the Hyacinth. It should be kept 



very near the glass. Although .it does remarkably well 

 I out of doors, perfection is best attained by growing it 

 j in cold pits or under handlights. All the species succeed 

 ! admirably in a compost of equal parts peat, loam, and 



sand, also in leaf mould and sand. Propagated by offsets; 

 I or by seeds, which are produced freely, and should be 



sown in drills outside as soon as ripe. The young bulbs 



should not be disturbed for three years. 



C. cretica (Cretan). JL white or pale blue ; scape slender, 6in. to 

 lOin. high, rarely more than one or two-flowered ; perianth some- 

 what larger than that of C. nana, which this species otherwise 

 resembles. Mountains of Crete. 



C.ForbMtKForbes's). A synonym of C. LueOia. 



C. LucilUa (Lncilia's).* jl. intense bine, shading to white in the 

 centre, nearly lin. across, on slender pedicels ; spike usually 

 three to six-flowered, but sometimes nearly twenty flowers are 

 produced. Spring. L few, narrow, erect A. 6in. Asia Minor 

 and Crete, 1877. This is, perhaps, one of the handsomest of 

 spring flowers of recent introduction. ST>. C. Forbaii. See 

 FigTIsO. (B. M. 6433.) There is also a white-flowered form. 



C. nana (dwarf).* JL white, lilac, iin. across, hi many-flowered 

 umbels. Spring. L linear, shorter than the peduncle. A. 4in. 

 Crete. 1879. <f M. 6461) 

 CHIONOGHAP HIS (from chion, snow, and graphii, 



a pencil; the flower-spike being like a brush of snow). 



OBD. Liliaceae. A very remarkable and ornamental herba- 

 ceous perennial, requiring slight protection outside in 



winter. It thrives in a compost of loam, peat, and sand. 



Propagated, if necessary, by seeds, or by divisions of the 



roots. 



C. Japonic* (Japanese).* /. pure white, closely packed along a 

 space of 4in. to Bin., spiral* ; perianth segments variable, four to 

 six, linear, long. Spring. L glabrous, in tufts at the bottom of 

 a long spike, with scattered leafy bracts. A. 6in. to 1ft Japan, 

 1830 (B. M. 6510.) 

 CHUUTA (from Cheryta. the Hindostanee name for 



the Gentian plant). OBD. Gesneratece. Greenhouse or 



stove evergreen herbaceous plants or shrubs. Corolla 



tubular, bilabiate ; calyx fire-cleft, valvate in estivation. 



For culture, see Gloxinia. 



C. liladna (lilac).* A. very beautiful and produced in great 

 abundance ; corolla lobes pale blue ; tube and throat white ; bas* 

 of tube ornamented with a large yellow blotch at the base. 

 Chiriqui, 1870. This charming plant is very ornamental and effec- 

 tive. 



C. Moonli (Moon's).* JL pale purple ; corolla large, downy ; pe- 

 duncles axillary, solitary or twin. July. L shortly petiolate, 

 three to four in a whorl, orate-lanceolate, acntish, obsoletely and 

 glandularly serrated. Branches bluntly tetragonal, suffrotieoa*. 

 rilloua. A. 2ft Ceylon, 1847. Store. (B. M-MOo.) 



FIG. 431. CHIRITA SINENSIS. 



