140 LYTHRACEAE. 



3. Leaves with scales beneath. (Russian Olive). E. angustifolia. 

 Leaves* with only star-shaped hairs. E. angustifolia orientalis. 



4, Leaves glabrate and green above. E. multiflora. 

 Leaves silvery on both faces. E, argentea. 



. HIPPOPHAE. Sea Buckthorn. 



Deciduous armed shrubs with brown wood with moderately 

 coarse ducts, more crowded in spring and fewer and with inter- 

 spersed very minute ducts in summer, and very fine medullary 

 rays ; rather slender rounded twigs commonly ending in sharp 

 spines ; round continuous brownish pith ; alternate slightly raised 

 small crescent-shaped leaf-scars with a single bundle-trace ; no 

 stipule-scars ; round sessile buds with few exposed scales ; nar- 

 row short-petioled leaves ; small imperfect yellowish apetalous 

 flowers in lateral clusters ; and small red berry-like drupes. 

 Twigs rusty-scurfy : leaves silvery-scurfy below. H. rhamnoides. 



Family LYTHRACEAE. Loosestrife Family. 

 A rather small and unimportant family, mostly of herbs, 

 including the cigar plant and a few other species of Cuphea 

 grown under glass or in bedding, and the following very at- 

 tractive tree of the South. 



LAGERSTROEMIA. Crape Myrtle. 



Deciduous shrubs or small trees with shredding bark ; pale 

 or brownish wood with small scattered ducts, tangential wood- 

 parenchyma pattern, and very delicate medullary rays ; mod- 

 erately slender twigs decurrently angled below the leaves ; 

 small brown continuous pith ; alternate (or the lower 

 opposite) small crescent-shaped leaf-scars with i bundle-trace; 

 no stipule-scars ; appressed pointed buds with about 2 exposed 

 scales ; small obovate subsessile entire leaves ; rather large per- 

 fect flowers with distinct crisped rounded long-clawed petals ; 

 and small round capsules, with winged seeds. 

 Flowers pink. L. indica. 



Flowers purplish. L. indica violacea. 



Flowers white. L. indica alba. 



