Chamissoa
(commemorative of the naturalist, Louis Charles Albert von Chamisso, born at Boncourt in Champagne, in 1781; died at Berlin in 1838). ORD. Amarantaceae. A genus containing some six or eight species, from tropical and sub-tropical South America. Some of the species now referred here were formerly placed under Achyranthes, a genus of about a dozen species, of merely botanical interest. Chamissoas thrive well in loam and leaf mould. They may be readily increased by seeds; or by cuttings, inserted in sand, in bottom heat. The only species worth mentioning here is the following: C. altissima (tallest). fl. whitish, in branched terminal and axillary panicles. l. stalked, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, hairy beneath. A tall herbaceous greenhouse or stove perennial.