CEANOTHUS.t 
(Linn., in part.) 
Natural Order , Rhamne^e, (Decand.) Linnxan Classifica- 
tion, Pentandria, Monogynia. 
Calyx campanulate, shortly 5-cleft, with the border deciduous. 
Petals 5, cucullate and arched, exserted, with long claws. 
Stamens exserted. Disk thickened at the margin surround- 
ing the ovary. Styles 3, united to the middle. Fruit dry 
and rigid, mostly 3-celled, obtusely triangular, seated on the 
persistent tube of the calyx, tricoccous, dehiscing by the inner 
sutures. Seeds obovate, even. 
Shrubs or undershrubs, rarely small trees of the temperate 
parts of America. Roots large and ligneous. Leaves alternate, 
ovate or elliptical, mostly serrate, sometimes entire, persistent 
or deciduous. Flowers white or blue, in umbel-like clusters, 
aggregated at the extremities of the branches into thyrsoid 
corymbs. The taste of the root and most other parts of the 
plant more or less astringent. One of the species was formerly 
employed as a succedaneum for tea, and hence the name of “New 
Jersey Tea P 
TREE CEANOTHUS. 
CEANOTHUS thyrsiflorus, arborea , erecta; ramis angula - 
tis,foliis ova to-ob longis, subellip ticis, obtusis crassiusculis , 
glanduloso-serrulatis subglabris , subtus subvillosis ; thyrsis 
oblongo-ovalibus densifloris corymbulis axillaribus termi- 
nalibusque , ramis Jloriferis foliosis; floribus azureis. 
j* An ancient Greek name employed by Theophrastus for a 
plant now unknown. 
