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several ciliate scales; elliptical rather small leathery entire nar- 
rowly revolute subsessile leaves, peltate-scurfy beneath; pale 
perfect urceolate short-stalked gamopetalous flowers solitary 
in the axils of the reduced upper leaves; and depressed-globose 
small capsules. 
1. Leaves oblong, not crisped. 2. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, crisped. CC. calyculata angustifolia. 
2. Over 30 cm. high; branches rather ascending. C. calyculata. 
Scarcely 30 cm. high: branches horizontal. C. calyculata nana. 
ENKIANTHUS. 
Deciduous shrubs with rather slender terete twigs swollen 
and leafy at tip; somewhat angled brownish continuous pith; 
alternate crescent-shaped small little-raised leaf-scars with a 
single bundle-trace; no stipule scars; ovoid scaly terminal buds; 
moderately small obovate oblanceolate petioled entire or ser- 
rulate leaves; rather small bell- or cup-shaped gamopetalous 
perfect flowers in terminal racemes; and small oblong. capsules 
erect on long slender drooping pedicels. 
Flowers white: pedicels glabrous. E. perulatus. 
Flowers red: pedicels loosely hairy. E. campanulatus. 
OXYDENDRUM. Sourwood. 
Deciduous small trees with rather soft wood with. numer- 
ous small diffused ducts and fine medullary rays; rather slen- 
der rounded or 3-sided twigs; roundish continuous pale pith; 
alternate somewhat raised half-round leaf-scars with a single 
large bundle-trace; no stipule-scars; roundish buds with about 
3 exposed scales; moderate petioled entire or serrulate acid 
leaves; perfect small urn-shaped white gamopetalous flowers, 
one-sided on the branches of loose terminal panicles; and 
small oblong many-seeded capsules erect on the pedicels. 
Leaves lanceolate, acuminate. . O. arboreum., 
EpicagEA. Trailing Arbutus. 
Evergreen small trailing half-shrubs with rather flaking 
bark; moderately slender brown bristly terete twigs; roundish 
spongy pith; alternate moderate-sized firm somewhat revolute 
