120 TREES OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES 
and south; also cultivated. Diospyros 
Lotus (DATE-PLUM), with leaves very 
dark green above, much paler and 
downy beneath, and fruit much smaller 
(% in.), and Diospyros Kaki (JaAPaN 
PERSIMMON), with large, leathery, shin- 
ing leaves and very large fruit (2 in.), 
are successfully cultivated from Wash- 
ington, D. C., southward. The under 
leaf represents D. Lotus, the upper one 
a small specimen of D. Kaki. 
ORDER XXVIII. STYRACACEA. 
(STORAX FAMILY.) 
A small order of shrubs and trees, mostly of warm 
countries. 
Genus 56. STYRAX. 
Shrubs or small trees with commonly deciduous leaves, 
and axillary, or racemed, white, showy flowers on droop- 
ing stems. Pubescence scurfy or stellate; fruit a glo- 
bular dry drupe, its base covered with the persistent 
calyx, forming a 1- to 3-seeded nut. 
1. Styrax Americana, Lam. (AMERICAN 
Srorax.) Shrub or small tree (4 to 10 ft.), 
with oblong, alternate leaves acute at both 
ends, 1 to 3 inches long, smooth or very 
nearly so; fruit 144 in. long, in racemes 
of 3-4. Wild along streams, Virginia 
8. Japénica. 
and south ; ocea- 
sionally cultivat- | 
ed, and probably * 
hardy through- 
out. 
S. Americana. 
2. Styrax Japonica, Sieb. (JAPAN STo- 
RAX.) Leaves alternate, membranaceous, 
ovate to ovate-lanceolate, serrate or ere- 
nate, 44 to 3 in. long, smooth or with short 
