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erectHs, ramh teretihus tomeniosis, tandem subferrug'tneiti. Fol. suhirinncia- 

 lia latitudine sesquiuncialia v. circlter, inollinscula, supra nndius pubescentia 

 virentia immerse nervosa et subrugoso-venosa nervis 3 prmcipibiis longitudinal- 

 ibus ascendenter ramosis subtus varicosis, serraturce marginalis dentibus 9nn- 

 crone vel spinidn cartilaginen prcejixis tomento pagina; jJroncti tandem subfer- 

 rugineo: petiohis pluri'es brevior lamina jnibescens: stipulas arida, caduco:, 

 acuminatce. Panicul* in ramulis oppositis axillaribus provenientes, brac- 

 teatce, axillares, simplices semunciam vix excedentes, ferminales composita 

 partialibiis alternis bracteis furfuraceis caducis loco foliorum inter stinctis: 

 pedicelli 1-flori filiformes oiquales pilosi albidi erecti per phalanges plurijlo- 

 ros bracteatos aggregati. Flores azurei, inex2:>a7isi magnitudine granum sem- 

 inis Coriandri stibaquantes. Cal. petalorum concolor et opacius, oblato-cam- 

 panulatus, subpentagonus, ultra medium 5-fidus segmentis conniventibus ovato- 

 angulatis membranaceis. Cor. erecto-radiatct; pet. 5, fornicato- vel galeato- 

 S2)aihidata, divisuris calycis insita hisque i circa longiora, cequalia; uuguis 

 lineari angustus, convoluto-canaUciilatus, deorsum attenuatus; l&Tnina, intror- 

 sum galeato-fornicata, lateribus productioribus, antheram usque ad anthesin 

 /ovens. Stam. cequalia petalis: Gi. /undo calycis inseria erecta: antli. lutece, 

 erectce, subrotundo-ovatoe, quadrilobo-biloculares, loculis compressis. Germ. 

 viridissimum, oblatum, glabrum, 3-angulare, cinctum annulo glanduloso disci 

 calycini: stj'lus tripartitus, cierulescens, diinsiones/ll/ormes/asciculatce apiece 

 replicatee cequales calyci, p>uncto stigmatoso simplici. — Mr. Brown, while 

 visiting the garden of La Malmaison near Paris the year before last, saw 

 this rare, and then unrecorded, shrub, in one of the garden-frames of that 



des ob bracteas dense congestas, subtomentosas, coloratas?, aiaicepatulas, 

 omnium ramulorum lateralium interne denudatoriam et fastigii apices oc- 

 cupantes, e quibus dein evolvuntur racemi compositi et racemose ita 

 dispositi ut ramultim totum vel apicem ejus in paniculam multifioram 

 mutent. Folia maxima cum petiolo bilineari if p. longa, interne i p. lata 

 sed pleraque minora, nervus venteque utrinque subsenae subtus prominent 

 et cum tota pagina tomento ex ferrugineo albido sunt tecta. Stipulae 

 lineari-lanceolatae sensim atteniiatae fuscae dorso et margine in primis 

 pilosae mox decidiint. Eamorum annotinorum apices quidem j^ubescvint, 

 sed pubes haec mox decidit et glandulae parvae convexae uitidulae faci- 

 lius couspiciuntur quae densissimae superticiem tegunt et scabriusculam 

 reddunt. — Schlechtendal in Linntea xv, 474 (1S41). 



II Ceanothds azureus Desf., var. ? parvifolius. A widely branching 

 shrub, with slender branchlets and small narrow leaves, 3 to 9 lines long; 

 fascicles of flowers in a very short, mostly naked, raceme-like thj^rse (an 

 inch long or less), the pedicels scarcely a line long — On rocky slopes of 

 the Sierra Madre, Chihuahua; C. G. Pringle (n. 1205), Oct. 1887.— Sereno 

 Watson, in Proc. Am. Acad., xxiii, 270 (1888). 



