218 RHAMNACEBAE. 
HoveniA. Honey Tree. 
(Family Rhamnaceae). 
Trees: deciduous. Twigs ter- 
ete, slender, zig-zag: pith relative- 
ly large, pale, continuous, round. 
Buds rather small, superposed, 
sessile, ovoid, with 1 or 2 exposed 
scales, the end bud lacking. Leaf- 
scars. alternate, round-heart- 
shaped, somewhat elevated: 
bundle-traces 3, large:  stipule- 
sears lacking. 
Winter-characters of Hovenia 
dulcis are given by Shirasawa, 
241, ph -Z 
Hovenia dulcis, which is grown 
successfully as far north as 
Washington, somewhat suggests a 
hackberry in its foliage and 
slender zig-zag twigs. When it be- 
comes old enough to fruit its 
fleshy edible branching flower- 
stalks, quite unlike the product of 
any other northern tree but in a way morphologically com- 
parable with the cashew “apples” of the tropics (Anacar- 
dium), attract attention, and finally litter the ground, in au- 
tumn and winter. 
Twigs from villous, glabrescent: buds dark brown, hairy. 
H. dulcis. 
