108 LYTHRACEAE 



2. Adult leaves with few if any scales above. 3. 



Leaves scurfy on both faces, narrow. E. angustifolia spinosa. 



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

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



4. Leaves glabrate and green above. 5. 



Leaves silvery on both faces. E. argentea. 



5. Brown scales few. E. umbellata. 

 Brown scales numerous. E. multiflora. 



HIPPOPHAE. Sea Buckthorn. 



Deciduous armed shrubs with brown wood with moder- 

 ately coarse ducts, more crowded in spring and fewer and with 

 interspersed very minute ducts in summer, and very- fine 

 medullary rays; rather slender rounded twigs commonly end- 

 ing 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; narrow 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 and 4-ranked (or the 

 lower opposite) small crescent-shaped leaf-scars with 1 bundle- 

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



