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probably hardy farther north. They have small broadly spreading 4- to 6- 

 parted flowers and 1-seeded berry-like drupes which remain on the plants 

 over a year. 



Red-bekried Akdisia (459) — Ardisia crenuia,ta — is a neat compact 

 shrub Vfith peculiar wavy-margined alternate leaves and drooping clusters 

 of very ornamental coral-red, berry-like drupes which hang on for a year 

 or more. The small flowers are red or rose-colored. 



Fig. 466. — American Storax. 



Fig. 466. — Four-winged Silver Bell. 



White-berried Akdisia — Ardisia japdnica — has whorled serrated 

 leaves, white flowers on red stems, and drooping white berry-like drupes. 

 While more hardy than the former, it is not nearly so beautiful. [Seeds.] 



Bum^lia. The Bumelias are popularly called Buckthorns and are 

 thorny, shrubs or trees with alternate clustered entire-edged nearly or quite 

 evergreen leaves. This genus contains no species of any great ornamental 

 value and is rarely found in cultivation. The species most frequently 

 met with, False Buckthorn — Bumelia lanuginbsa, — has densely hairy 

 evergreen leaves 1 to 2J inches long. The fruit is a black beny nearly 

 ^ inch long usually with one shining seed. The flowers are minute, vrhite, 

 clustered in the axils of the leaves in summer. This, though usually 

 shrubby, can grow to the height of 50 feet. Southern Buckthorn 

 (460) — Bumelia lycioides — differs in having less hairy, thinner, more 



