CIIAM:EDO'REA, a genus of Palms. also called Nunnrharia and Nelnrie. They are small reed-like plants, with ringed shoots. Their leaves are either cleft or pinnated. The inflorescence is Beadle within the sheaths of the leaves, and branched in an irregular manner ; the spathes are membranous. The flowers are yellow and dieecious, with out bracts, which is a remarkable circumstance. In the males the calyx is cup-shaped and 3-parted, the petals 3, and the stamens 6. In the females the calyx and petals aro the sauna; the ovary 3-celled; the berry 1-seeded ; the albumen even ; and the embryo lateral. These are palms of humble growth, receding in that respect from the general character of the order, and approximating to Herbaceous Endogens, or to Bamboos. C. fragrans, the Chmtaaslinn of the Peruvians, is a plant with a stem about a man's height, and so fra grant as to fill the groves with its perfume in the mouths of August, • September, and October.
CllAM:ELAUCIACEJ:, Fringe Myrtles, a small natural order of Polypetalous Exogenous Plants. They are characterised by halving a 1-celled ovary, ascending ovules, dotted leaves, and the embryo fused into a solid mass They aro small bushes with evergreen leaves, and in external appearance have a close resemblance to heaths. All their
parts abound in glandular oily cavities. They are mostly regarded as belonging to Myrtacem, and there is no doubt of their affinity to that order. Their peculiar aspect, abortive stamens, simple ovary, and papposo calyx sufficiently distinguish them. They have the fragrance of Al yrtaceer. Fifteen genera and fifty species are included in this order, all natives of Australia. Their position, according to Lindley, is between Asteracece and Combretacece, near to Myrtacea'. (Lindley, Vegetable Kingdom.) CHAMiELE'DON, a genus of plants belonging to the natural order Ericacece. C. procumbent is a beautiful little alpine bush, formerly referred to Azalea, from which it differs essentially both in habit and botanical characters. It is a small evergreen creeping shrub, found on the mountains of Europe and North America. The leaves are leathery, shining, turned back at their edge, and about half an inch long. The flowers are minute, and grow in terminal umbels of a light flesh-colour. The calyx is 5-parted ; the corolla campanu late and regularly 5-cleft, the anthers rounded and opening longi tudinally. It is occasionally seen in gardens, but it is rather impatient of cultivation.