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monogynia, natural order aggregate. The generic cha¬ 
racters are—-Calyx : none, but an ovate, acute, concave 
icale, on which the germ is placed. Corolla : one three- 
lobed convex petal, inferted into the outlide of the germ. 
Stamina : filaments none ; anthers four, inferted irpt-o the 
lobes of the petal on the edges towards the inlideand bi¬ 
valve. Piftillum : germ obovate, prominent in front, and 
bearing the petal; ltyle unequal, very fhort, angular ; ltig- 
mas three, very minute,erect. Pericarpium: drupe oblong. 
Seed : nut oblong, Ymooth.— EJJe?itiai CharaStcr. Calyx, 
none 5 corolla, a petal three-lobed by the fide of the germ; 
antherse growing to the petal; drupe one-feeded. 
Only one fpecies, viz. Chioranthus inconfpicuus. As de- 
fcribed by Swartz, it is an herbaceous plant. Stems many 
from the loot, half a foot high, fpreading, fubereCt, a lit¬ 
tle branching, round, itriated, fmooth ; leaves petiokd, 
decuflated, oppofite, lanceolate-ovate, ferrate, nerved, 
veiny, rather fucculent, very fmooth, pale green ; peti¬ 
oles lhortilh, channelled above, fmooth ; itipules between 
the petioles, liaving two minute teeth on each-fide, mem¬ 
branaceous, permanent. Flowers panicled; panicle ter¬ 
minal, ereCt, iimple; racemes or l'pike^s oppofite, decuf- 
fated, ereCtifh, fubfaltigiate. Flowers oppofite, deculTkted, 
fieffile, folitary, minute, the fize of a pin’s head, fomevvhat 
fucculent, whitifh yellow; pollen yellow; ltigmas whitifh; 
berry black, the fize of pepper. According to l’Heritier, 
it is a ftoloniferous underihrub. Stems procumbent at 
the bafe, knotted, grey ; the kpots near the ground root¬ 
ing, fometimes alternately leaflefs, but annulated with 
Itipules like the relt. Leaves oblong-ovate, acute, the ler- 
ratures mortified at the end, revolute, fomewhat wrinkled, 
the fame colour on both tides, fpreading, flat, permanent, 
from two to three inches long, and from eighteen to 
twenty lines broad. Petioles one-fourth of the length of 
the leaves, ending at the bafe in a ring, connecting two 
tubulate ereCt Itipules. Panicles lax, compofed of fpread¬ 
ing ^decuflated l'pikes, an inch and a half long. Flowers 
herbaceous, a line in length. BraCtes feflile, lanceolate, 
acute, concave, prefled dole, permanent, under the fpikes. 
Perianthium double; the lower more properly a braCte, 
the upper only a fcale; ityle fcarceiy any 5 ftigma capi¬ 
tate, fub-bivalved, fometimes two-lobed; fruit an oval 
berry, acuminated with the ftyle, pellucid at the bafe. 
This plant has long been introduced into the royal gar¬ 
den at Kew as a native of China, where we are told it 
is cultivated in their gardens, though it feems not to 
have any qualities either palatable or odoriferous, nor 
has it a beautiful appearance. Dr. Lind aflerted, that the 
Chinefe mix it with their tea, to give it a pleafant fmell; 
but this plant in itfelf has no fmell whatever. Introduced 
1781, by James Lind, M. D. It flowered on-board the 
Atlas pn the voyage. It is preierved in the itove, and 
may be increafed readily by its runners. 
CHLO'RIS, the goddefs of flowers, who married Ze- 
phyrus. She is the fame as Flora. Ovid .—A daughter of 
Amphjon, fon of Jafus and Perfephone, who married Ne- 
leus king of Pylos, by whom flie had one daughter and 
twelve fons, who all, except Neltor, were killed by Her¬ 
cules. Homer. 
CKLORO'SIS, [from green,] The green fick- 
nefs ; a difeafe fo called from the yellow greenifh look 
which thofe have who are afflicted with it. For the re¬ 
gimen and cure, fee Medicine. 
CHLORO'XYLON,/. in botany. See Laurus. 
CHLU'METZ, a . town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Xonigingratz : five miles fouth of Konigingratz. 
CHMlELOW'KA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
<of Braclaw : forty-fix miles eaft-north-eall of Braclaw. 
CHNIM, a ftrong town of Bofnia, belonging to the Ve¬ 
netians : fifteen miles fouth of Banjaluka. 
CHO-YANG, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Hou-quang : ten leagues ealt-north-eall 
of Siang-yang. 
‘To CHOAK. See Choke. 
CHO'AM-YU-SO, a town of China, in the province 
C H O 
or Quang-tong: fixteen leagues eaft-fouth-eafi of Kao» 
tchebu. 
CHOBOL'TIVO, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Volhynia : thirty-fix miles weft of Lucko. 
CHOC-BAY, a bayou the weft coail of the ifland of 
St. Lucia, a little to the north of Carenage bay. 
CHOCCHAR'MO, a town of Afia, in Thibet: twen- 
ty-feven miles north-eaft of Tofon-liotun. 
CHOCK'BAR, a town of Hindooltan, iituatednear the 
confluence of the Indus and Delta, or rather where the 
Indus divides its branches. 
CHO'CO, a province of South America, in the govern¬ 
ment of Terra Firma, bounded on the north by the pro¬ 
vinces of Darien and Cartbagena, on the eaft and fouth 
by Popayan, and on the weft by the Pacific Ocean. The 
foil, climate, See. are fimilar to thofe of Popayan- 
CHCfiCOLATE,/. [ chocolate , Span.] The nut of the 
cacao-tree, or theobrotna. The cake or niafs, made by 
grinding the kernel of the cacao-nut with other fub- 
ltances, to be dilfolved in hot water. The Spaniards 
were the firft who brought chocolate into ufe in Europe, 
to promote the confumption of their cacao-nuts, achiot, 
and' other drugs, which their Weft Indies furnifh, and 
which enter the compofition of chocolate. See THEOBRO- 
ma. The liquor made by a folution of chocolate in hot 
water.— Chocolate is certainly much the belt of the threp 
exotic liquors: its oil feems to be both rich, alimentary, 
and anodyne. Arbuthnot. 
In fumes of burning chocolate (hall glow', 
And tremble at the fea that froths below I Pope 
CHOTOLATE-NUT-TREE. See Theobroma. 
CHOCOLO'COCA, which the Spaniards call Caftro Vir— 
reyna, a town of Peru, lixty leagues fouth-ealt of Lima, 
famous for its illver mines, which are at the top of a high 
mountain, always covered with fnow, and but two leagues 
from the town. The ftones of the mines are of a dark 
blue colour; thefe being calcined and powdered, then 
lteeped in water and quickfilver, the filth is fieparated, 
and the filver melted and formed into bars Thefe veins 
are not very rich, but the metal is extremely fine. They 
make plenty of wine here, where it attains a greater de¬ 
gree of perfection, owing to the purenefs of the air, than 
it is obferved to have eilewhere. 
CHO'COPE, a town in the jurifdiftion of Truxillo, in 
South America, in Peru ; fourteen leagues fouth of St. 
Pedro. Here are about fixty orfeventy families, chiefly 
Spaniards, with fome of the other caits, but not above 
twenty-five families. It has a church buiit ot brick, both, 
large and decent. The people here mention a rain that 
fell in 1726, which lafted ror.y nights, beginning con- 
ftantly at four or five in the evening, and ceafing at the 
fame hour the qext morning, which laid molt of the houfes 
in ruins. Lat. 7. 4S. S. 
CHOCUITO, or rather Chucuito, orTin Caca, a 
large lake near Pari a, in South America, and in Peru, in¬ 
to which a great number of rivers empty themfelves. It 
is 240 miles in circumference, and in lome parts eighty 
fathoms deep ; yet the water cannot be drunk, it isdo 
very turbid. It abounds in filh, which they dry and fait, 
and exchange wdth the neighbouring provinces forbrandy, 
wines, meal, or money. It is faid the ancient incas, 011 
the conquelt of Peru by the Spaniards, threw into this 
lake all their riches of gold and lilver. It was this lake 
into which the inca Huana Capac threw the famous chain 
of gold, the value of which was immenle. It abounds 
with flags and rallies, of which Capac Vaupanchi, the 
fifth inca, built a bridge for tranfporting his army to the 
other fide. 
CHOC'ZIM, or Cokzim, a town of European Turkey, 
in Moldavia, fituated on the fouth fide of the Dniefter, 
near the frontiers of Poland, remarkable for two victo¬ 
ries gained here by the Poles over the Turfs, one in 
1621, the other in 1683. The luburbs were burned down 
in 1769 ; twelve miles fouth-fouth-weft of Kaminiek, and 
