110 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Chionachne 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 this and 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-E astern 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, relished by grazing animals ; matures seeds freely. C. 

 ventricosa (R. Br.) is another valuable East- Australian species. 

 Several other congeners from the eastern or western world deserve 

 the attention of graziers, as furnishing good provender. Chemical 

 analysis will determine their nutritive value, though the degree of 

 liking of such grasses by pasture-animals can only be foiind 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 ; 

 contracts are entered into for the supply of this material on a rather 

 extensive scale [Professor Bolander]. The inner part of the bulb 

 serves as a substitute for soap, and the possibility of utilising 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 varnishes, exudes from the stem and branches. 



Chondrus crispus, Lyngbye. 



Shores of the Northern Atlantic Ocean. " Caragaheen." This 

 well-known alg yields a nutritious and palatable gelatine on boiling, 

 and has thus become even of some therapeutic importance. The 

 ready steam-communication all over the world affords doubtless now 

 the opportunity of carrying also highly useful algs widely from 

 shore to shore in portable aquaria. In Australia the Eucheuma 



