140: LYTHRACEAE, . 
3. Leaves with scales beneath. (Russian Olive). E. angustifolia. 
Leaves with only star-shaped hairs. E. angustifolia orientalis. 
4. Leaves glabrate and green above. E. multiflora. 
Leaves silvery on both faces. FE, argentea. 
HipropHAgr. Sea Buckthorn, 
Deciduous armed shrubs with brown wood with moderately 
coarse ducts, more crowded in spring and fewer and with inter- 
spersed very minute ducts in summer, and very fine medullary 
rays; rather slender rounded twigs commonly ending in sharp 
spines; round continuous brownish pith; alternate slightly raised 
small crescent-shaped leaf-scars with a single bundle-trace; no 
stipule-scars; round sessile buds with few exposed scales; nar- 
row short-petioled leaves; small imperfect yellowish apetalous 
flowers in lateral clusters; and small red berry-like drupes. 
Twigs rusty-scurfy: leaves silvery-scurfy below. H. rhamnoides. 
Family LYTHRACEAE. Loosestrife Family. 
A rather small and unimportant family, mostly of herbs, 
including the cigar plant and a few other species of Cuphea 
grown under glass or in bedding, and the following very at- 
tractive tree of the South. 
LAGERSTROEMIA, Crape Myrtle. 
Deciduous shrubs or small trees with shredding bark; pale 
or brownish wood with small scattered ducts, tangential wood- 
parenchyma pattern, and. very delicate medullary rays; mod- 
erately slender twigs decurrently angled below the leaves; 
small brown continuous pith; alternate (or the lower 
opposite) small crescent-shaped leaf-scars with 1 bundle-trace; 
no stipule-scars; appressed pointed buds with about 2 exposed 
scales; small obovate subsessile entire leaves; rather large per- 
fect flowers with distinct crisped rounded long-clawed petals; 
and small round capsules, with winged seeds. 
Flowers pink. L. indica. 
Flowers purplish. L. indica violacea. 
Flowers white. L. indica alba. 
