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CEANOTHUS AZUREUS. 
(azure-flowered ceanothus.) 
class. order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
RHAMNEiE. 
Generic Character Calyx quinquefid, or in five parts. Petals five, bagged. Berry dry, three^ 
seeded. 
Specific Character. — Plant shrubby. Branches round, tawny brown, covered with a soft downiness. 
Leaves betwixt ovate and oblong, serrated, upper surface green, and underneath tawny, downy, like 
the stem ; veins somewhat netted, particularly visible on the upper surface. Panicles produced on 
the side shoots or branchlets. Flowers blue, and rather small. Calyx somewhat darker in colour 
than the corolla. Corolla of five petals, somewhat spatulate. 
Synonym Ceanothus cseruleus Loddiges'' Bot. Cab. 110. 
Scarcely any of the species of this genus are worth cultivation, where a 
selection for beauty are wanted. The present subject, however, is an exception ; 
though the flowers are small, the figure of the plant, when well grown, is graceful, 
and the panicles of flowers are beautiful. 
Its native country is scarcely known. Messrs. Loddiges believe it to be a 
native of New Holland, but this is thought improbable by Dr. Lindley. It was 
introduced by Messrs. Loddiges, in 1818, who received it from M. Parmentier's 
collection at Enghien. 
It is a green-house plant, growing from six to ten feet high. The best kind of 
soil for it is equal parts of peat and loam ; and it is propagated without much 
difficulty by cuttings of the young wood, planted in sand, covered with a bell 
glass, and placed in a little heat. 
