198 NEW PLANTS, ETC., FltOM THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 



truncate, spiny-toothed, subsessile, very shining and smooth on 

 the upper side ; on the under pale and netted. This network is 

 produced by numerous short branching veins, in the interspaces 

 between which are deep pits, reaching half through the paren- 

 chym, and each closed up by a dense ring of white converging 

 hairs. Such pits are placed pretty generally in a double row 

 between each of the principal lateral veins. The flowers appear 

 in small clusters or umbels at the end of very short spurs. They 

 are deep purplish violet, not blue, and less showy than those of 

 C. dentatus or C. papillosus. 



The species seems to be even more hardy than the two last- 

 named sorts, for it has borne the winter uninjured and unpro- 

 tected both in sunny and in northern aspects ; and, in fact, the 

 specimens left unprotected are quite as healthy as those left under 

 glass all the winter. 



The only flowers that have yet appeared were in a greenhouse. 

 It seems as if, in the open air, the shrub would prove an autumnal 

 flowerer. 



