Tas. 4806. - 
CEANOTHUS FrtiorisBunpDUvs. 
Copious-flowering Ceanothus. 
Nat. Ord. RHAMNEZ.—PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4660.) 
Cranornus floribundus ; piloso-scabridus, foliis breve petiolatis oblongis coriaceis 
undulatis acutis margine (et paulo intra marginem) dentato-glandulosis 
dpiceque acutiusculo reflexis subtus venosis pubescenti-tomentosis, corymbis 
densifloris globosis aggregatis sessilibus. 
Among other interesting species of Ceanothus of California, 
the present was raised, from seeds sent by Mr. William Lobb, 
by Messrs. Veitch, of the Exeter Nursery, and of King’s-road, 
Chelsea, and it is certainly the most beautiful of the several — 
blue-flowered kinds yet known tous. The leaves are copious, 
compact, and glossy, and the flowers, though really growing In 
corymbs, are so dense as to be perfectly globose, capitate, sessile 
(in which respect it differs remarkably from C. dentatus, Torr. et 
Gr.), and these heads crowded ‘at the extremity of numerous 
short branches and of the richest mazarine blue that can be 
looked upon. To add to its charms, Messrs. Veitch have found 
it to be quite hardy in this climate. It flowers in June. 
Dzsor. Apparently a moderately-sized shrub; the branches 
clothed with brown dark, and slightly hairy; the ultimate or 
lateral branches short, redder and more hairy. Leaves crowded, 
small, patent or reflexed, deep green, glossy, hairy above, ob- 
long, coriaceous, waved, the margin and moderately acute apex 
reflexed (giving a retuse appearance to the apex), the former at 
the very edge, and within the edge on the upper side, studded 
with tooth-like glands ; the under side is pale, prominently veined 
and reticulated, downy. Petioles short, thick, hairy, with a pair 
of ovate tapering s¢ipules at the base, more than half their length. 
Flowers of the richest mazarine blue, arranged indeed in corymbs, 
but so crowded and so spreading as to form dense balls, or capt- 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1854. 
