G.44J CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION 



GENUS 43. LAGERSTROSMIA. 



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Flowers with 6 long-clawed petals inserted on the 

 broadly spreading calyx; fruit 3- 

 to 6-celled pods with many winged 

 seeds. 



Lagerstrcemia Indica, L. (CRAPE- 

 MYRTLE.) Leaves roundish-ovate, thick, 

 smooth, short-petiolate ; branches winged ; 

 flowers in terminal clusters with large, de- 

 licately crisped, 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. 



L,. fodica. 



ORDER XXI. ARALlACE-ffi. (GINSENG FAMILY.) 



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, 

 often forming large panicles. 

 Fruit small, berry-like, several- 

 celled, several-seeded. 



* Leaves 2 to 3 times odd-pinnate 



(Aralia proper) 1, 2. 



* Leaves simple, palmately cleft 



(Acanthopanax) .... 3. 



1 1. Aralia spinosa, L. (ANGELICA- 



TREE. HERCULES '-CLUB.) Leaves large, 

 A. spiraea, crowded at the summit of the stem, 



