TREES AND SHRUBS EVERGREEN 



CASTANOPSIS CHEYSOPHYLLA, A. DC. 



Syns. Castanea cJirysophylla, Hook. 



Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. xxii. p. 411, fig. 120; id. 1904, vol. xxxvi. p. 152, fig. 59; 



Bot. Mag. t. 4953. 



A representative of a most remarkable genus, intermediate in character 

 between the oak and the chestnut, the " Golden-Leaved Chestnut." The 

 name in allusion to the bright golden-yellow colour of the under surface 

 of the leaves, the upper bright lustrous green ; as the branches move 

 to the wind, the contrast presented by the two surfaces is singularly 

 conspicuous. 



A native of Oregon, a small tree, of a shrubby nature, found at high 

 elevations on the Californian coast range south of the Bay of San 

 Francisco. It attains full size and beauty in the humid climate of the 

 coast valleys of Northern California, and is one of the noblest of the 

 forest inhabitants, reaching a height of 100 to 150 ft., frequently free 

 of branches up to 80 ft. above ground. Seed sent from California by 

 William Lobb, probably about the year 1853, from which plants were 

 raised. The finest specimen in this country is at Tortworth Court, 

 Gloucestershire, the seat of Earl Ducie, which bears fruit freely every 

 year, and from which plants have been raised. 



There is also a good specimen in the gardens at Pencarrow, Cornwall. 



CEANOTHUS FLOEIBUNDUS, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4806 ; Watson, Gray and Brewer, Botany of California, vol. i. p. 104. 



A handsome and interesting hardy species raised from seed sent from 

 California by William Lobb. 



In Botany of California (I.e. supra) is written: "This species is as 

 yet known only from the figure and original description drawn from 

 cultivated specimens. But for the peculiar inflorescence it might be a 

 form of Ceanothus dentatus." 



The flowers are of the richest mazarine-blue that can be imagined, 

 in numerous capitate globose corymbs, crowded at the extremity of 

 numerous short stubby branches. 



CEANOTHUS LOBBIANUS, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4810 ; Fl. des Serres, 1854-1855, torn. x. p. 125. 



This Californian species, introduced to Exeter by William Lobb, has 

 many points in common with Ceanothus thyrsiflorus, and is possibly a 

 hybrid form of that species. 



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