Tap. 5165. 
CEANOTHUS ve vutTINus. 
Velvety Ceanothus. 
Nat. Ord. RHAMNE®.—PENTANDRIA Monoaynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4660.) 
CEANOTHUS velutinus; frutex, ramis erectis, foliis coriaceis orbiculari-ellipticis 
cordatisve obtusis glanduloso-crenatis supra glabris intense viridibus ver- 
nicosis subtus canescenti-tomentosis trinerviis, paniculis pedunculatis axil- 
laribus, floribus densis albis. 
CranoTuus velutinus. Douglas, in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. p. 125. t. 45. Torrey 
and Gray, Fl. of N. Am. v. 1. p. 265. 
This is a plant of which the figure makes very little show upon 
white paper, for there is nothing gay and no variety of colour ; 
but in a garden it proves to be a very handsome evergreen orna- 
mental shrub, derived from the Oregon Territory, with leaves 
whose upper surface is very dark green, rendered glossy by ap- 
parently an aromatic resin, which the plant exudes in hot wea- 
ther, the under side velvety with whitish down, or sometimes 
slightly ferruginous. It was first detected by the lamented 
- Douglas, and has been lately reared from seed by Messrs. Veitch 
and Sons, Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, with whom it flowered 
in the open air in the early winter months. It may be expected 
to be quite hardy, for it is found among the Rocky Mountains 
at considerable elevation above the sea. 
Descr. Shruéd, eight to ten feet high on its native hills, with 
nearly glabrous, terete ranches, and rather long-petioled /eaves 
of a singularly dark and vernicose green above, pale and canes- 
cent or sometimes subferruginous with velvety down, beneath ; 
the largest of them are nearly three inches long; their form is 
elliptical-rotundate or elliptical-cordate, the margin glanduloso- 
crenulate ; there are three principal longitudinal nerves, which 
are prominent beneath. Peduacles axillary, bearing erect, thyr- 
soid panicles of dense white flowers, overtopping the leaves, with 
FEBRUARY IsT, 1860. 
