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CEANOTHUS PAPILLOSUS. 
Papillose Ceanothus. 
Nat. Ord. RHAMNEZ.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4660.) 
Cranortuus papillosus ; pubescenti-hirsutus, foliis alternis petiolatis anguste ob- 
longis penninerviis dentatis supra convexis papillosis subtus tomentosis, 
papillis apice dentibusque glandulosis stipulis ovatis anguste acuminatis basi 
pinnatifidis, corymbis subpaniculatis copiosis pedunculatis terminalibus axil- 
laribusque, ovario trigono angulis apice subproductis. 
CEANoTuUs papillosus. Torr. et Gray, Fl. of N. Am. v. 1. p. 208. 
One of the many interesting discoveries of the unfortunate 
Douglas in California. We are not aware however that he was 
the means of introducing it to the gardens of this country. We 
are indebted for the specimen here figured to Messrs. Veitch and 
Son, of the Exeter and King’s Road Nurseries, who reared it 
from seeds gathered by Mr. William Lobb. It flowered in the 
open border, at Exeter, in June of the present year, and it will, 
no doubt, prove as hardy as the other blue-flowered species of 
Ceanothus from the same regions. Its blossom-heads are not so 
compact as in some other blue-flowered species, but this is com- - 
pensated by their number on all the lesser branches. 
Duscr. A moderately-sized shrub, with downy or hairy, terete 
branches, becoming brown in age. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 
rather narrow-oblong, subcoriaceous, dark green, pubescent and — 
convex above, distinctly papillose, penninerved, dentate at the 
margins ; papille and marginal teeth terminated by a gland, be- 
neath pale and tomentose. Stipules, a pair at the base of the 
petioles, shorter than they, broad and ovate and pinnatifid at 
the base, tapering into a long acuminated point. Peduncles ax- 
illary and terminal, about as long as the smaller leaves, termi- 
nated by a rather paniculated corymb of small bright purple 
flowers. Pedicels and flowers quite glabrous. Calye with five 
large, triangular, incurved segments. Petals horizontally spread- 
NOVEMBER lst, 1854. 
