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oxyds of the different metals in chloric acid. They do not 

 poffefs any very remarkable properties, except thofe common 

 to all the chlorates ; viz. of giving out oxygen when heated, 

 ;uid of detonating when thrown on burning coals. The 

 clJorate of illver, mixed with a little fulphur, and ftruck 

 (lightly, fulminates with prodigious violence. 



CHLORIODIC Acid. See Iodine and Simple Sui- 

 Jlanccs. 



CHLORITE. See Mineralogy, Addenda. 



CHLORO-CYANIC Acid. See Cyanogen. 



CHLOROPHANE. See Mineralogy, Addenda. 



CHLOROPHYTUM, in Botany, from x^^f«, green, 

 and (Pulov, a plant, beca;ife of the green hue of the flowers, as 

 well as herbage, in the original fpecies. — Ker in Curt. 

 Mag. 107 1. Brown Prodr. Nov. HoU. v. i. 276. — Clafs 

 and order, Hexandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. " Bromell<e, 

 JufT." Ker. Afphodele^, Brown. 



Eff. Ch. Corolla inferior, in fix deep, equal, fpreading, 

 permanent fegments. Filaments thread-fhaped, fmooth. 

 Style thread-fhaped. Stigma fimple. Capfule with three 

 deep comprefled lobes, three cells, and three valves with 

 central partitions. Seeds feveral, comprefled, with a naked 

 fear. 



Herbage fmooth. Root fafciculated ; the fibres occa- 

 fionally flefhy. Leaves radical, ribbed, linear, fometimes 

 lanceolate. Floivers racemofe green or white, their partial 

 ftalks jointed in the middle. Capfule membranous, veiny. 



1. Ch. inornatum. Greenifh-flowered Chlorophytum. 

 Curt. Mag. t. 107 1. Ait. Epit. 365. — Stem none. Leaves 

 lanceolate, nearly as tall as the ftalk. Partial ftalks foUtary. 

 — Native of Sierra Leone, from whence, and not from the 

 Weft Indies, its feeds were brought to the late Mr. Fair- 

 bairn, at Chelfea, if we miftake not, by Francis Borone, in 

 1793. It is a ftove plant, flowering and feeding in fummer. 

 Several radical, many-ribbed, pointed leaves, five or fix 

 inches long, paler beneath, are accompanied by an eredl;, 

 fimple or branched, leaAtkJlalk, a fpan high. Flovjers pale 

 green, fcentlefs, each with a pointed bra3ea. Corolla 

 fpreading, three-quarters of an inch wide. 



2. Ch. laxum. Loofe-cluftered White Chlorophytum. 

 Br. n. 2. — " Stem none. Leaves linear, nearly as tall as 

 the ftalk. Clufters lax, elongated, fimple or divided ; par- 

 tial ftalks folitary or in pairs." — Found by Mr. Brown, in 

 tlie tropical part of New Holland. 



3. Ch. clatum. Tall CUorophytum. (Anthericum 

 elatum ; Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 2. 268. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 2. 

 138. Afphodelus foliis planis, S:c. ; MiD. Ic. 38. t. 56. 

 Phalangium elatum ; Redout. Liliac. t. 191.) — Stem much 

 branched, almoll leaflefs, much taller than the hnear -lanceo- 

 late radical leaves. — Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 

 A perennial green-houl'e plant, flowering in Auguft and 

 September. The Jloii'ers are copious, white, fmaller than 

 in the firft fpecies, folitary and almoft feflile. 



Mr. Brown mentions a fourth fpecies, found at the Cape, 

 but without any name or character. 



CHONDRACHNE, Brown Prodr. Nov. Hoil. v. 1. 

 220, a genus coufifting of only one fpecies, diftinguifhed by 

 its inflorefcence alone from Chorizaxdra; fee that article. 



CHORD, col. 2, 1. 13, for EO r. ED. 



CHORETRUM, in Botany, Brown Prodr. Nov. Holl. 

 v. 1.354. — Clafs and order, Pentandria Monogynia. Nat. 

 Ord. Santalacedi, Br. 



Efl". Ch. Calyx fuperior, in five deep, vaulted, coloured 

 fegments, each with an interior defcending keel, permanent, 

 with a minute five-toothed calycle at the bafe. Stamens in 

 the hollows of the fegments. Anthers with four cells and 

 four valves. Stigma radiated. Drupa \ 



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The only known fpecies are Ch. latenjloram and glonura- 

 turn, found on the fouth coaft of New Holland, rulhy 

 branched llirubs, with minute fcattered leavei, and fmall 

 white Jlo-Mers, being nearly related to Leptomeria ; fee 

 that article. 



CHORISPERMUM, from ^u,f,,,feparately, and <rT,pua, 



feed, fee the charafter Brown in Ait. Hort. Kew. v! 4, 



'??■ — P^^^^ ^"'^ order, Tetradynamia SHiquofa. Nat. Ord. 

 Siliquofe, Linn. Crucifern, JuflT. 



EfT. Ch. Pod of two cells, without valves, feparating 

 into fingle-feeded clofed fragments. Cotyledons flat, accum- 

 bent. Stigma fimple. 



I. Ch. tenellum. Purple Chorifpermum. Ait. n. i. 

 (Raphanus tenellus ; Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 561. Pallas 

 Voy. v. 3. 741. t. L. f. 3.)— Leaves, as well as pods, 

 fmooth ; upper ones lanceolate, toothed ; lowermoft pinna- 

 tifid. — Native of defarts near the Cafpian fea. A little 

 annual herb, with fmall purple flowers. Mr. Brown's 

 fpecific character indicates the exiftence of another fpecies, 

 not knov.'n to us. 



CHORIZANDRA, from x'''?'^^'> to fparate, and avrj, 

 a male, becaufe the ftamens are individually feparated by 

 fcales. — Brown Prodr. Nov. Holl. v. i. 220. — A genus con- 

 fifting of two fpecies, natives of Port Jackfon, nearly akin 

 to Chondrachne of the fame author, and to the Linnaean 

 Chrysitrix ; fee thofe articles. From the latter it differs 

 in inflorefcence and habit. How far they could with pro- 

 priety be united, we have not materials to form a decifive 

 opinion. 



CHORIZEMA, a name of which there have been vari- 

 ous explanations, (fee Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 9. 252,) is moft 

 probably derived from ;t^S'v''' '* fparate; but certainly not 

 in allufion, as De Theis fuppoies, to any divifion of the 

 fruit. We rather believe the author of this name had in 

 contemplation the feparate filaments, of v.hich fo few 

 inftances were known in papilionaceous flowers, at the time 

 he wrote, and riu.-y. may allude to their dart-lite figure. — 

 Labill. Voy. Engl. ed. v. i. 435. Nov. Holl. v. 2. 120. 

 Sm. in Sims and Kon. Ann. of Bet. v. i. 506. Tr. of Linn. 

 Soc. V. 9. 251. Ait. Hort. Kew. V. 3. 8. (Podolobium; 

 ibid. 9.) — Clafs and order, Decandria Monogynia. Nat. 

 Ord. Papilionacece, Linn, Leguminofit, JufT. 



EfT. Ch. Calyx five-cleft, two-lipped. Corolla papi- 

 lionaceous. Style curved. Stigma obtufe. Legume 

 oblong, tumid, of one cell, with many feeds. 



1. Ch. ilicifolia. Holly-leaved Chorizema. Labill. as 

 above, t. 21. Sm. n. i. Ait. n. i. — Leaves alternate, 

 oblong, pinnatifid, with fpinous teeth ; point entire, longer 

 than the teeth. Brafteas clofe to the flower. — Found by 

 M. Labillardiere, at the foot of the mountains, on the fouth 

 coaft of New Holland, flowering in December. Sent to 

 Kew in 1803, by Mr. Good. Stem flirubby, hardly a foot 

 high, branching from the root. Leaves alternate, feflile, 

 fmooth, coriaceous, with fharp fpines. Flowers in terminal 

 clufters. 



2. Ch. nana. Dwarf Chorizema. Sims in Curt. Mag. 

 t. 1032. Ait. n. 2. (Pultenia nana; Andr. Repof. 

 t. 434. ) — Leaves alternate, elliptic-oblong, bluntiih, iinu- 

 ated, with fpinous teeth. Brafteas rather diftant fi-om the 



flower From the fame country. We profit by Mr. Brown's 



remarks for diftinguifhing this fpecies, hitherto confounded 

 by us with the foregoing. Its ftature is more humble. 

 Flowers in lateral clufters, orange, with purple wings, and a 

 fliort, white, purple-tipped ieeK We know not diftinAly 

 the colour of ilicifolia. 



3. Ch. rhombea. Few-flowered Chorizema. Br. m Ait. 

 n. 3 » Leaves entire, flat, pointed ; lower ones orbicular, 



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