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9. Ceanothus BUXIFOLIUS HB. 



C'eanothus buxi/olia Humb. et Bondjjl.; spinosus, foliis ellipticis iitrinqiie 

 glabris triuerviis serratis, floribus panicnlatis. Bclifpi. Willd. MS. — In 

 America merid. ad Eio del Monte, 'j . Humb. et Bonpl. — Koemer &. 

 Schiiltes, Syst., v. 300 (1S19).* 



This species is still very insufficiently known. Some 

 forms recently collected connect rather closely with C. 

 Fendlcri. 



10. Ceanothus Fendleri Gray. 



Ceanothus Fendleri(sp. nov.) : intricato-ramosissimus; rainis ramnlisqi^e 

 teretibiTS gracilibi;s saipe si^iuescentibus cinereo-i^ubertilis demiim glabratis 

 Igevibias; foliis parviilis {\-\ unc. longis) ovalibus sen ellipticis obtusis 

 integerrimis eglandulosis triuerviis subttis sericeo-canescentibus supra 

 glabriusculis viridibiis; gloinerulis deusis sessilibus; floribus glabris 

 albis. — Mountains east of Santa Fe in sunny places; June (in flower), and 

 July, in fruit. Sbrub about a foot and a half high and two feet in 

 diameter. — Allied to C. depressus Benth PI. Hartw., no. 29; but much 

 more slender, the Thyme-shaiaed leaves smaller and not glandular, &c. 

 Fruit about as large as in C. Americauus. — Gray in Plantaa Feudleriange 

 Novi-Mexicanre, i, 29, (1848). 



Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona. 



b. x\ngulati. Branches erect, more or less angular. 

 Leaves glandular on the viargin, usually velvety or 

 tonientose beneath. Flozuers, except in the first s-pe- 

 cies, nearly ahvays deep blue. Fruit commonly 

 rather large. 



11. Ceanothus velutinus Doiigl. C. lcevigatus\ 

 Dougl. 



Ceanothus velutinus; ramis subpendulis, foliis rotundato-ellipticis cori- 

 aceis argute glanduloso-dentatis tripliuerviis supra nitidis quasi veruicosis 

 glaberrimis subtus incano-velutinis, racemis terminalibus, ramis thyr- 



*The reference of this species and C. bicolor HB. is incorrect, both in DC. 

 Prod, and in the Kew Index. 



^Ceanothus hevigatus; foliis rotundato-ellipticis coriaceis argute glanduloso- 

 dentatis tripliuerviis omuino glaberrimis supraque nitidis et quasi verni- 

 cosis, paniculis in ramos breves terminalibus, floribus coarctatis. — C. 

 grandis. Douylas, MSS.—Kab. Nootka. Mr. Menzies. Mountains near 



