four-sided, each side with a cross-marked 

 elevation. [J. T. S.] 



CHIBOU RESIN. A product of Bursera 

 gummifera. 

 CHICASAW PLUM. Cerasus Chicasa. 



CHICHA. Sterculia Cliicha, the seeds of 

 ■which are eaten as nuts by the Brazilians ; 

 also a colouring-matter obtained from the 

 leaves of Bignonia Chica. 



CHICHE. (Fr.) Lathyrus Cicera. 



CHICKEN- WEED. A name under which 

 Eoccella tinctoria has heen sometimes im- 

 ported. 



CHICHOW. The seeds of Cassia Absus, 

 an Egyptian remedy for ophthalmia. 



CHICKRASSIA. A latinised version of 

 the Bengalee name of a lofty Indian tree, 

 i belonging to the order Cedrelacece. The 

 leaves are pinnated ; the flowers large, in 

 terminal panicles with ten stamens united 

 by their filaments into a tube. Ovary three- 

 celled, placed on a broad disc, with pen- 

 dulous ovules, arranged in two rows. The 

 fruit is a capsule opening from above 

 downwards by three valves, leaving a 

 central column. The seeds are winged. 

 The wood of C. tabularis is close-grained, 

 lieht-coloured, and elegantly veined ; hence 

 it is in much request by cabinet makers, 

 who call it chittagong wood, though there 

 are other woods with a similar appellation. 

 The bark of this tree is astringent but not 

 bitter. [M. T. M.] 



CHICKWEED. The common name for 

 Alsine. The well-known weed of this name 

 is Alsine, or Stellaria media. — , BASTARD, 

 Buffonia ternifolia. — , FORKED. Any- 

 chia dichotoma. — , INDIAN. An American 

 name for Mollugo. — , MOUSE-EAR. The 

 common name for Cerastium ; also speci- 

 ally C. vidgatum. — , SEA. Arenaria pep- 

 loides. — , SILVER. Paronychia argyro- 

 coma. — , WATER. Montia fontana ; also 

 sometimes applied to Malachium aquati- 

 ctim, and Callitriche verna. 



CHICO. A kind of beer, made in Chili 

 from the Indian corn, Zea Mays. 



CHICON. (Fr.) Lactuca sativa. 



CHICOR'EE. (Fr.) Succory, Cichorium 

 Intybus. — , FRISEE'. Curled Endive, a 

 variety of Cichorium Endivia. 



CHICORIA DE LA TIERRA CALT- 

 ENTE. A South American name for Achy- 

 rophorus sessiliflorus. 



CHICORY. Cichorium Intybus, or Suc- 

 cory. 



CHICOT, or CHICHOT DU CANADA. 



iFt.i Gymnocladus canadensis. The term 

 Chicot is also applied to the seeds of 

 Moringa pterygosperma. 



CHIENDENT. (Fr.) Cynodon Bactylon. 

 A N BALAIS. Andropogon Ischoemum. — 

 A y CHAPELET. Avena bulbosa. — DES 

 BOUTIQUES. Triticum repens. 



CHILLI. The fruit of Capsicum an- 

 iiuum, and other allied species. 



CHILOCARPUS. An imperfectly known 

 genus of climbing shrubs, natives of Java, 

 with a salver-shaped corolla, capitate stig- 

 ma, and a capsular fruit. The genus is re- 

 ferred to the Apocynacece. [M. T. M.J 



CHILODIA. A genus of Labiatece, con- 

 taining a single species, a native of New 

 Holland. It is a branched glabrous or 

 slightly pubescent shrub, with small entire 

 linear-sessile leaves and single flowered 

 axillary peduncles, with two small subu- 

 late bracts below the calyx. The calyx is 

 campanulate with a short striated tube, 

 and a bilabiate limb, the upper lip being 

 entire and the lower emarginate or biden- 

 tate. The corolla is campanulate and 

 faintly two-lipped. There are four stamens 

 shorter than the tube; the anthers have 

 two smooth parallel cells, without ap- 

 pendages. The apex of the style is slightly 

 bifid with sub-equal lobes. In habit and 

 structure this genus is very near Prostan- 

 thera, differing only in having no append- 

 ages to the anther-celL [W. C] 



CHILOGLOTTIS. Under this name 

 stand a small number of terrestrial Aus- 

 tralasian orchids, bearing radical leaves 

 in pairs and solitary galeate reddish 

 flowers at the end of a short naked scape. 

 Like Caladenia its lip is marked by promi- 

 nent glands ; nor, indeed, does it differ 

 much from that genus, except in having a 

 very broad arched dorsal sepal. 



CHILOPSIS. A genus of Bignoniaceo?, 

 consisting of a single species of erect 

 branching shrubs from Mexico. It has long 

 linear entire alternate leaves, and beautiful 

 flowers in terminal dense spicate racemes, 

 on short bibracteolate pedicles. The bila- 

 biate calyx is membranaceous, inflated, 

 and deeply-cleft in front ; the corolla-tube 

 is dilated upwards, and the two-lipped limb 

 is five-lobed. The four stamens are didy- 

 namous, the sterile fifth being very minute. 

 The style is Aliform, and the stigma bi- 

 lobed. The pod-like capsule is two-celled, 

 with the partition bearing the placenta 

 contrary to the valves. The seeds are 

 transversely winged. [W. C] 



CHILOSCHISTA usneoides is a leafless 

 Indian epiphyte of the orchidaceous order, 

 with narrow, flat, green roots, which cling 

 to the branches of trees and appear to 

 serve the purpose of leaves, as also happens 

 in the leafless Angrcecums. 



CHIMAPHILA. A small genus of Pyro- 

 lacece, natives of Europe, Siberia, and 

 North America, differing from Pyrola by 

 the hairy filaments, very short style, and 

 capsule splitting from the apex downwards 

 with the edges of the valves not woolly. 

 The plants, called Winter Greens in Ame- 

 rica, have woody subterranean shoots, and 

 a short stem with a tuft of thick shining 

 evergreen leaves, oblong, wedge-shaped, or 

 lanceolate — in the latter case variegated 

 with white. The scape is corymbosely or 

 umbellately branched at the apex , the 



