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Shrub, 0.5 to 3 meters high, glabrous ; leaves mostly opposite, sessile, linear- 

 lanceolate or lanceolate, 2 to 9 cm. long, acuminate; flowers yellow, inodorous,, 

 pedicellate, solitary in the axils ; calyx campanulate, 5 to 9 mm. long, with 

 hornlike appendages at base of lobes; petals 5 to 7, 12 to 17 mm. long; 

 stamens 10 to 18. " Hauchinal," " hauchinol," " hauchinoli," " hachinal,''^ 

 " huauchinal," " hanchinol," '• hanchinoli," " hanchinal," (Oaxaca, Morelos, 

 Mexico, and elsewhere); " jarilla " (Oaxaca); " sinicuiche," " sinicuilche," 

 " sinicuil " (Nuevo Leon, Jalisco); " granadillo " (Urhina) ; " escobilla del 

 rio" (Tamaulipas) ; " quiebra yugo," " quiebra arado " (Argentina, Uruguay). 



The petals fall soon after the flowers open. The plant is much used locally 

 in medicine, emetic, antisyphilitic, hemostatic, febrifuge, diuretic, laxative, 

 vulnerary, sudorific, tonic and astringent properties being ascribed to it. It 

 is employed most commonly for syphilitic affections. The leaves are said 

 to contain 9 per cent of a bitter principle, nesine, and about 14 per cent of 

 a resin, the latter being the active principle. If the juice or a decoction 

 of the plant is taken internally it is said to produce a mild and pleasant 

 intoxication, during which all objects seen appear to be yellow. Palmer 

 reports that in Tamaulipas a decoction of the plant is employed as a wash 

 to x-elieve the effects of poison ivy (Rhus toxicodendron). 



This plant was listed by Sesse and Mocino ' as " Glnora [Guioria] americana," 

 a name pertaining to a Cuban plant of a different genus. It is described also 

 by Hernandez.* 



7. LAGERSTROEMIA L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 1076. 1759. 

 The species are all natives of the Old World. 



1. Lag'erstroemia indica L. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 734. 1762. 



Commonly cultivated in Mexico and sometimes escaping." Native of Asia, 

 East Indies, and Australia, but widely cultivated. 



Shrub or tree, 2 to 7 meters high, the trunk 6 to 17 cm. in diameter, the 

 bark smooth, gray ; leaves alternate, sessile or nearly so, oblong-elliptic to 

 rounded, 2 to 7 cm. long, short-acuminate, rounded, or emarginate at apex, 

 glabrous or hirtellous beneath along the nerves; flowers in terminal panicles, 

 pedicellate, 4 to 7-parted; calyx campanulate, 7 to 10 mm. long; petals white, 

 pink, or purple, 12 to 20 mm. long, on slender claws, the blade orbicular- 

 cordate, crispate and erose ; stamens 30 to 42 ; capsule 6-celled, 9 to 13 mm. 

 long, ellipsoid-globose. " Astronomica " (Durango, Oaxaca, etc.); " crespon " 

 (San Luis Potosi) ; " atmosferica " (Durango, Oaxaca); " atmosfera " 

 (Sinaloa) ; "Jupiter" (Cuba, El Salvador, Nicaragua); " astromeda " (Porto 

 Rico) ; " melindres " (Philippines). 



Crape-myrtle is an extremely handsome plant, with very showy and hand- 

 some flowers which are borne in great profusion and for most of the year. 

 Although it grows well in the tropics, it is not a tropical plant, but can stand 

 considerable freezing. In the United States it is hardy as far north as 

 Baltimore, and is grown out of doors still farther north. 



8. GINORIA Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 5. 1760. 

 Six other species are known, all natives of the West Indies. 



1. Ginoria nudiflora (Hemsl.) Koehne, Bot. Jahrb. Engler 3: 351. 1882. 



AnthenjUum midiflorum Hemsl. Diag. PI. Slex. 13. 1878. 



The type was collected somewhere in southern Mexico by Jurgensen ; the 

 writer has seen another specimen collected by Galeotti in 1845, probably in 

 Oaxaca. 



' PL Nov. Hisp. 78. 1887. ' Thesaurus 105, 415. 1651. 



