Lythbaceae. 



24d 



rather 

 say a 

 Twigs 



Lagerstroemia. Crape Myrtle. 

 (Family Lythraceae). 



Small trees or large shrubs with 

 flaking bark: deciduous. Twigs 

 rather slender, angled: pith small, 

 roundish, at length spongy. Buds 

 moderately small, solitary, sessile, 

 oblong, somewhat elbowed above 

 the base, closely appressed, with 

 2 acute ciliate scales. Leaf-scars 

 4-ranked, separated, or approxi- 

 mated in pairs, or opposite, nearly 

 round, slightly raised and decur- 

 rent from the sides but concave: 

 bundle-trace 1, composite, crescent- 

 shaped, sunken: stipule-scars lack- 

 ing or glandular. 



Winter - characters of Lager- 

 stroemia indica are figured by 

 Shirasawa, 244, pi. 4. 



Like the oleander, the crape 



myrtle is very popular in the 



south, where it thrives, and it is 



frequently grown as a tubbed plant north of this, 



line reaching from Washington to Cairo, Illinois. 



glabrous, 4-winged. L. indica. 



