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CHALCAS EXOTICA.  Orange jessamine.  One of the most
attractive of evergreen shrubs for formal plantings in gardens
and dooryards.  Its rounded outline, glossy, dark-green foliage,
panicles of white, beU-shaped, fragrant flowers, followed by small
red berries, have made it a general favorite in southern Europe for
outdoor and greenhouse use.  Hardy in Florida. Also known as
Murraya exotica.

CHAYOTA EDULIS. Chayote or mirliton.  Perennial, rampant, 
climbing cucurbit, bearing annual crops of green or white 
pearshaped fruits, more delicate in flavor than squash.  Excellent
creamed, stewed, as salad, or baked with meats.  Good shipper.  A
promising truck crop on well-drained, fertile, sandy-loam soils.
Fruits prolifically in Florida, southern California, and around New
Orleans.

CHENOPODIUM QUINOA.  Tall annual, largely cultivated on
the dry slopes of the Andes for its nutritious but acrid seeds used in
soups or prepared similar to rice in several changes of water.  Recommended 
for trial as a substitute for spinach, for which purpose its
leaves have long been used in France during the hot off season for
this vegetable.  Its culture is similar to mustard.

42202. CHILOPSIS LINEARIS. Mimbres.  Collected by Dr.
David Griffiths of the Bureau of Plant Industry.  Handsome flowering 
tree related to the catalpa, which it resembles only in its smaller
purple- tinged flowers. Its leaves, however, are willowlike.  The
tree is quite open in habit, but it stands pruning and can be easily
shaped as desired.  Native from western Texas to Cahfornia and
southward.

CHIONANTHUS RETUSA. Chinese fringe tree.  One of the
most attractive and distinguished of hardy deciduous shrubs.  Somewhat resembles the American fringe tree (C. virginiana), but has the
abundant shorter and broader panicles erect, and flowers on the
young shoots of the year.  Flowers snow white; the corolla having
four strap-shaped petals three-fourths of an inch long.  The whole
shrub is usually a mass of bloom in June and July.

42292. CHORISIA INSIGNIS. Palo borracho.  Presented by
Senor Benito J. Carrasco, Buenos Aires, Argentina.  Ornamental
flowering tree with a very thick trunk, related to the "silk floss tree"
which is cultivated in southern California.  Flowers yellowish, striped
with brown, about the size of those of the flowermg dogwood (Cornus
florida).  Native of northern Argentina.
        