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CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION 



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GENUS 6. TAMARIX. 



Leaves simple, very small, alternate, clasping ; old ones 

 almost transparent at the apex. Flowers in spike-like pan- 

 icles, small, red, or pink, rarely white. 



Tamarix Gallica, L. (FRENCH TAMA- 

 RISK.) Leaves very small, acute; spray 

 very slender, abundant. A sub-evergreen 

 shrub or small tree, 5 to 20 ft. high ; with 

 very small pinkish flowers, in spike-like 

 clusters, blooming from May to October. A 

 very beautiful and strange-looking plant, 

 which, rather sheltered by other trees, can 

 be successfully grown throughout. 



ORDER V. TERNSTRCEMlACE^J. 



(TEA OR CAMELLIA FAMILY.) 



An order of showy-flowered trees and shrubs of tropical 

 and subtropical regions, here represented by the following 

 genera : 



GENUS 7. STUARTIA. 



Shrubs or low trees with alternate, simple, exstipulate, 

 ovate, serrulate leaves, soft downy beneath. Flowers 

 large (2 in.), white to cream-color, 

 solitary and nearly sessile in the 

 axils of the leaves; blooming in 

 early summer. Fruit a 5-celled cap- 

 sule with few seeds j ripe in autumn. 



1. Stuartia pentagyna, L'Her. (STU- 

 ARTIA.) Leaves thick, ovate, acuminate, 

 acute at base, obscurely mucronate, ser- 

 rate, finely pubescent, 3 to 4 in. long, one 

 half as wide. Flowers whitish cream-col- 

 ored, one petal much the smallest; sta- 

 s. pentfigyna. mens of the same color. Pod 5-angled. 



