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with the leaves. Fruit a long stalked 3-lobed leathery capsule 
which remains on the tree throughout the winter. Along 
streams and in canyons, Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. 
Planted for ornament. 
FRANGULACEAE. Buckthorn Family. 
Trees or shrubs with simple alternate or sometimes oppo- 
site leaves, bitter watery juice, small regular flowers and fruit 
either a drupe or a capsule. 
Fruit fleshy with a single stone. 
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Fruit fleshy with 2-3 seed-like nutlets............. 3. Rhamnus. 
CONDALIA Cavanilles. Purple Haw. 
Condalia obovate Hooker. A shrub or small tree 20°-30° 
high with pale gray bark and spinescent twigs. Leaves small, 
1’-114’ long. and 14’ wide, alternate, obovate or spatulate with 
entire margin. Flowers small, greenish, solitary in few flow- 
ered clusters in the axils of the leaves. Fruit a blue or black 
oblong drupe 14’ long with sweet flesh. 
In dry soils of western Texas and northern Mexico. 
KARWINSKIA Zucearini. 
Karwinski glandulosa Zucc. A small tree or shrub with 
smooth light brown branches and hairy twigs. Leaves oppo- 
site, 114’-214’ long, firm, oval, with entire margin. Flowers 
small green in axillary clusters. Fruit a small subglobose 
black drupe. 
RHAMNUS L. 
Rhamnus caroliniana Walter. Indian Cherry. A shrub or 
smal! tree 30°-35° high with gray bark, and smooth reddish 
brown twigs. Leaves alternate, firm, oblong to elliptic, 2’-5’ 
long, varrow at base, smooth and shining above, paler and 
somewhat hairy beneath. Flowers in small clusters in the 
axils of the leaves. Fruit globose, bluish black with three 
