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SEA BUCKTHORN: TEA TREE 



O Leaves foliaceous, thin, deciduous, more 

 or less lanceolate; not themselves pungent 

 or spinose. 



Leaves lanceolate, 5 10 cm. long: 

 shoots slender and arching. 



Fig: 114. Sea Buckthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides, p. 294 (D). 



Lycium barbarum, L. Tea Tree. Hedge bush, with 

 long thin arched shoots. Leaves lanceolate or elliptic- 

 lanceolate to narrow-lanceolate or rhomboid-ovate, -herba- 

 ceous, soft and thin, attenuate both ends, sub-sessile, 

 entire, green, 5 11 x 1 4 cm., with axillary slender 

 branch thorns, or in some cases thornless. See p. 303. 

 Petioles 5 10 mm. Autumn leaves yellow. 



Venation obscurely pinnate-reticulate, the secondaries 

 fairly strong, leaving the midrib at open angles of about 

 60, and soon looping forwards irregularly. Tertiaries 

 few. Meshes sparse and open. 



