CIIRYSOBALANATE.E, Chrysobalans, a natural order of Poly petalous Exogenous Plants, allied to Rotator and Fabacea. (1,cumxii. twat), from which it differs in the style proceeding from the buss of the ovary, and in its stamen*, being very irregular, often placed only on one side of the ovary. They are trees or shrubs, with alternate stipulate simple leaves, and flowers in loose racemes, coryinbs, or panichet Many species have no petals. They are exclusively nativia, of the tropics, where they often War the name of plume. The gray or rough-skinned plums of Sierra-Leone are produced by species of J'arinariem, and the CaMinato, or Cocoa-Plum of the West Indies belongs to Chrysobalanua Icaco. [CURTSOBALANI7S.] The drupes of flloqsiUa gramligora are edible. The order contains 11 genera and 50 species.
CIIItYSOBALANUS, a genus of plants belonging to the natural order Chrysobalanacar. It has a campanulate 5-cleft calyx. Petals 5, miguiculate. Stamens about 20, nearly equal in length, disposed in one series. Drupe fleshy, plum-formed, containing an ovate 5-furrowed 1-seeded nut. Trees with simple leaves, and racemes or panicles of insignificant flowers. The fruit of all the species is edible.
C. Icaco, Cocoa-Plum, has nearly orbicular or obovate leaves, mar ginate; racemes axillary, dichotomous; stamens hairy. It is a native of South America and the West Indies, by the sea-side, newel] as of the southern parts of North America. The flowers are white. The fruit is about the size of a plum, ovate, roundish, varying much in colour, white, yellow, red, but most commonly purple, and usually covered with a sort of bloom. The skin is thin and the pulp white; the taste sweet, with some sharpness, hut not unpleasant It is eaten both raw and preserved. The root, bark, and leaves are used in medicine.
sionally a blue opalescence. Streak white. Lustre vitreous. It is translucent or transparent Specific gravity about 3'8. Il•ur1ness, S. Fracture conchuidal. Before the blowpipe it suffers no change alone; with borax it fuses into a trinspereut glass.
The massive variety occurs in rounded pieces.
It is found in Brazil, and in Connecticut, North America.
Seybert first found that it contained glucina. The following are his and Dr. Thomson's analyses :— seytert. Thomson.
Alumina . . . 73.60 Alumina . . . 79'752 Glucina . . . 15'80 Olucina . . . 17191 Silica . . .4 l'rotoxide of Iron . 4194 Protoxide of Iron . . 3.38 Volatile matter . . 0.480
Oxide of Titanium . 1 Moisture . . . 01 0 99'517 98'18 CHItYSOCHLOTA, a genus of Dipterous Insects belonging to the family Seratiolnydcs. Characters :—Body elongated ; anteniuu with the basal joint short, the third long, conical, and compreaaed ; stylet terminal, elongated ; third posterior nervure of the wings not reaching the hinder margin.
C. anitthymina is about three-quarters of an inch in length ; the head and are black ; there is a white spot at tho base of each antenna ; the thorax and abdomen are of a violet-blue colour, the latter has a yellow spot on each side of the second, third, and fourth segment, ; the legs are black.
It inhabits the island of Mauritius and the East Indies.
ClIllYSOCHLO'RIS (Lac6pMe), a genus of animals belonging to the clams Mammalle, and allied to the Moles (Taipa), but differing from them in their dentition and in other particulars. Dental formula :— — canines, 0; 99 g=s = 40. The true molars are 4 long, distinct, and nearly all in the shape of triangular prisms.
The muzzle is short, wide, and reflected. There is no external ear, nor any appearance of the eye externally. The fore feet have three claws only ; the exterior claw is very large, arched, and poiuted, forming a powerful instrument for penetrating and digging the earth ; the other two diminish gradually. The hind feet are furnished with five claws of ordinary size. The fore-arm is supported by a third bone placed under the ulna to strengthen it when the animal is employed in excavation. The body is thick and short. The hair, or rather fur, which is thick set, has a metallic lustre.
C. Capeasia, Deamsuest ; TaupeDor6e of the French; Talpa Asiatica of Linincis; C. r Wosa of A. Smith. lia:r brown, presenthr; in certain C. cliipticus, Elliptic-Leaved Cocoa-Plum, has elliptic leaves, ohtuse or acnte, never enutrginate; racemes Raillery, dichotomous; stamens hairy. • It is a native of Sierra-Leone on the sea-side. The fruit Ls about the size of a damson, and like the other species is eatable.
The other species are—C. oblongifolisu, Oblong-Leaved COCOA native of Brazil ; C. oratifoties, Oval-Leaved Cocoa-Plum, a shrub, native of Brazil ; and C. macrophyllus, Large-Leaved Cocoa Plum, also a native of BraziL The species thrive beat in sandy loam. The best mode of increasing the plant, Is by seeds, when they can be procured.