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ROSAOEAE. 



Fallugia. Apache Plume. 

 (Family Rosaceae). 



Small shrubs: evergreen. Twigs 

 terete, slender, with splitting 

 creamy outer cortex, becoming 

 red-brown: pith minute, round. 

 Buds small, solitary, sessile, ovoid, 

 with 2 widely parted outer scales. 

 Leaf-scars alternate, half-round, 

 minute, much raised: bundle- 

 trace 1: stipule-scars lacking or 

 indefinite at top of the leaf- 

 cushion. Leaves small, pinnately 

 3- or 5- lobed, very revolute, not 

 glandular. 



Fallugia differs from Cowania 

 and Purshia in having normal 

 buds, while those of the latter 

 genera usually develop into spurs 

 that remain covered by the bases 

 of fallen leaves as in the hybrid 

 barberry. It is attractive when 

 bearing its plumed fruits, but is 



not commonly seen in gardens. 



Twigs glabrescent: leaves often loosely hairy. 



F. paradoxa. 



