86 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



Chenopodium nitrariaceum, F. v. Mueller. 



Interior of Australia, especially in localities occasionally humid, 

 reaching in some places the south-coast. A rather tall " Salt-bush/ r 

 liked particularly by sheep. 



Ch.enopodi.uni Quinoa, Willdenow. 



New Granada, Peru, Chili. An annual herb. Admitted here as 

 a savory and wholesome spinage-plant, which can be grown so 

 quickly, as to become available during the short summers of even the 

 highest habitable alpine altitudes. In Peru the seeds are used for a 

 nutritious porridge (Tschudi, Markham). 



Chionachn cyathopoda, F. v. Mueller. 



Tropical and Eastern sub-tropical Australia. With C. barbata 

 (R. Brown) and C. Wightii (Munro) of India and Queensland a valuable 

 fodder-grass, yielding a large return. Sclerachne punctata (R. Brown) 

 from Java is closely allied. 



Chloris scariosa, F. v. Mueller. 



Tropical Australia. Particularly recommended by Mr. Walter 

 Hill as a pasture-grass. Dr. Curl mentions, besides this, C. divaricata 

 (R. Brown), from North- and East- Australia, as useful summer- and 

 autumn-grasses, even in the cooler clime of New Zealand. 



Chloris truncata, R. Brown. 



The Windmill-grass. South-Eastern Australia, as far south as 

 Port Phillip. This perennial and showy grass is regarded by Mr. 

 Walter Bissill as an excellent summer- and autumn-grass, of ready 

 growth and relish to grazing animals. C. ventricosa (R. Br.) is 

 another valuable East- Australian species. Several other congeners 

 from the eastern or western world deserve the attention of graziers. 

 Chemical analysis will determine their nutritive value, though the 

 degree of liking of such grasses by pasture-animals can only be found 

 out by rural tests. 



Chlorogalum pomeridianum, Kunth. 



California, frequent on mountains. This lily-like plant attains a 

 height of 8 feet. The heavy bulb is covered with many coatings, 

 consisting of fibres, which are used for cushions and mattresses; con- 

 tracts are entered into for. the supply of this material on a very 

 extensive 'scale (Professor Bolander). The inner part of the bulb 

 serves as a substitute for soap, and the possibility of utilizing it for 

 technological purposes, like the root of Saponaria, might be tested, as 

 it contains saponin. 



Chloroxylon Swietenia, De Candolle. 



The Satin-wood. Mountains of India. Like the allied Flindersias, 

 possibly this tree would prove hardy in sheltered places of milder 

 extra-tropic latitudes, the cognate Cedrela australis advancing in 

 East-Australia southward to the 36th degree. A resin, valuable for 

 Tarnishes, exudes from the stem and branches. 



