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Genus 48. LAGERSTRG@MIA. 
Flowers with 6 long-clawed petals inserted on the 
broadly spreading calyx; fruit 3- 
to 6-celled pods with many winged 
seeds. 
Lagerstrémia Indica, L. (CRaPE- 
MYRTLE.) Leaves roundish-ovate, thick, 
smooth, short-petiolates branches winged; 
flowers in terminal clusters with large, de- 
licately erisped, long-stemmed petals of 
pink, purple, and other colors. A beau- 
tiful small tree, or usually a shrub, from 
India; often cultivated in the North in 
conservatories; hardy as far north as 
Washington. 
OrvER XXI. ARALIACEAS. (Ginsene Famity.) 
A small order of herbs, shrubs, and trees, here repre- 
sented by the following genus: 
Genus 44. ARALIA. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with pinnately or palmately 
compound leaves; here including Acanthopanax with 
palmately cleft leaves. Flowers 
whitish or greenish, in umbels, 
Cl Vz often forming large panicles. 
iB tigi Fruit small, berry-like, several- 
Cg celled, several-seeded. 
* Leaves 2 to 3 times odd-pinnate 
(Aralia proper) ............. 1, 2. 
* Leaves simple, palmately cleft (Acan- 
HOPAMAX) sec scw sects daa es 38. 
* Leaves of 5 blades. . Aralia:pentaphylla 
1. Aralia spindsa, L. (Ancevica- 
TREE. HeERcULEs’-CLuB.) Leaves large, 
crowded at the summit of the stem,. 
