64 BORRAGINACE.E. Chionanthus. 



Wood heavy, soft, not strong, brittle, close-grained, compact ; medul- 

 lary rays numerous, thin, rather conspicuous ; color light yellow streaked 

 with brown ; the sap-wood lighter. 



200. Chionanthus Virginica, L. 

 Fringe Tree, Old 3fan's Beard. 



Southeastern Pennsylvania, south to Tampa Bay, Florida, and through 

 the Gulf States to southern Arkansas and the valley of the Brazos River. 

 Texas. 



A small tree, to 10 metres in height, with a trunk 0.15 to 0.20 metre 

 in diameter ; generally along streams, in low, rich soil. 



Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, compact; layers of annual growth 

 marked by several rows of large open ducts, connected as in that of Bu- 

 melia by branching groups of similar duets; medullary rays numerous, 

 obscure ; color light brown, the sap-wood lighter. 



A decoction of the tonic and anti-periodic bark of the root is sometimes 

 employed in the treatment of intermittent fevers. 



201. Osmanthus Americanus, Ben th. & Hook. 

 Devil-wood. 



Southern Virginia, south to Cape Canaveral and Tampa Bay, Florida, 

 and through the Gulf States to eastern Louisiana, near the coast. 



A small tree, 10 to 15 metres in height, with a trunk sometimes 0.30 

 metre in diameter ; borders of streams and pine-barren swamps, in moist, 

 rich soil. 



Wood heavy, very hard and strong, close-grained, unwedgeable, diffi- 

 cult to work, containing many radiating groups of open cells parallel to 

 the thin obscure medullary rays ; color dark brown, the thick sap-wood 

 light brown or yellow. 



BORRAG-INACE^. 



202. Cordia Sebestena, L. 

 Geiger Tree. 



Southern keys of semi-tropical Florida ; rare ; in the West Indies. 



A small tree, sometimes 8 metres in height, with a trunk 0.06 to 0.08 

 metre in diameter ; rich hummock soil. 



Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, compact, satiny, containing few scat- 

 tered small open ducts; medullary rays very numerous, thin, conspic- 

 uous; color dark brown, the thick sap-wood light brown or yellow. 



203. Cordia Boissieri, A. DC. 



Texas, — valley of the Rio Grande, westward to New Mexico; in 

 northern Mexico. 



