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CEANOTHUS azureus. 
Azure-flowered Ceanothus. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Ruamnt. Jussieu gen. $76. Div. IV. Stamina petalis op- 
posita. Fructus tricoccus. 
CEANOTHUS. Cal. turbinatus 5-fidus (corollifer). Pet. 5 squami- 
formia longits unguiculata (saccata fornicata). Stam. sub petalis. Germ. 
3-gonum; stylus 1, 3-fidus; stig. 8. Bacca sicca 3-cocca 3-partibilis, coccis 
intts dehiscentibus 1-spermis, basi calycis persistenti imposita. Frutices: 
fol. alterna; flores racemosi, terminales aut axillares. Juss. 1. c. 380. 
C. azureus, pubescens; foliis ovato-oblongis acuminatis, scabro-serratis,. 
subtts ramisque tomentosis, paniculis thyrsoideis: partialibus et sim- 
plicibus brevibus ex fasciculis plurifloris in pedunculo crasso tomentosa 
a basi ad apicem dispositis, . 
Ceanothus azureus. Desfont. tabl. 232; (ed. 1816). 
Ceanothus ceruleus. Loddiges’s botan. cabinet. 110. 
Frutex erectus, ramis teretibus tomentosis, tandém subferrugineis. Fol. 
subtriuncialia latitudine sesquiuncialia ». circitér, molliuscula, supra nudiis 
pubescentia virentia immerse nervosa et subrugoso-venosa nervis 3 principibus 
ongitudinalibus ascendentér ramosts subtis vartcosts, serrature marginalis 
dentibus mucrone vel spinula cartilagined prefixts, tomento pagine prone 
tandem subferrugineo: petiolus pluriés brevior lamina pubescens + stipules 
aride, caduce, acuminate. Panicule in ramulis oppositis axillaribus pro- 
venientes, bracteata, azillares, simplices semunciam via excedentes, terminales * 
composite partialtbus alternis bracteis ir figates caducis loco foliorum inter- 
slinctis: pedicelli l-flort filiformes equates pilosi albidi erecti per phalanges 
plurifloros bracteatos aggregati. Flores azurei, inexpansi magnitudine granum 
seminis Coriandri subequantes. Cal. petalorum concolor at opaciits, oblato- 
campanulatus, subpentagonus, ultra medium 5-fidus segmentis conniventibus 
ovato-angulatis membranaceis. Cor. erecto-radiata; pet. 5, fornicato-vel 
galeato-spathulata, divisurts calycis insita hisque % circa longiora, «qualia; 
 “Uunguis “ineari-angustus, convoluto-canaliculatus, deorsitm attenuatus ; lamina 
introrsum galeato-fornicata lateribus productioribus, antheram usque ad 
anthesin fovens. Stam. equalia petalis: fil. fundo calycis inserta erecta: 
anth. lutee, erect@, subrotundo-ovate, quadrilobo-biloculares, loculis com- 
pressis. Germ. viridissimum, oblatum, glabrum, 3-angulare, cinctum annulo 
Blanduloso disci calycini: stylus tripartitus, caerulescens, divisiones jiliformes 
JSasciculate apice replicate equales calyci, puncto stigmatoso simplict. 
OLS Sa ae ne ama ee ace ana n atee eely A  ae ten 
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 
establishment, and was much struck by its beauty, the 
plant being at that time loaded with clusters of fragrant 
azure blossom. It has been since imported into. this country 
