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the latter plant showing a nearer relation to Oxera and a few other genera which 
connect Verbenacez with the tribe Ajugoideze of Labiate. The albuminous seeds 
branching hairs and other characters of Spartothamnus are quite those of Chloanthee. 
SunTRIBE 2. EuviTICEX.— Ovary not at all or scarcely lobed. 
Fruit a drupe. Shrubs or trees. Flowers in cymes or clusters, axillary 
or in terminal corymbose or racemose panicles. Seeds without albumen, — 
(or with a scanty albumen in some species of Vitez ?). 
14, CALLICARPA, Linn. 
—Shrubs, rarely undershrubs, more or less cottony or woolly with | 
stellate hairs or rarely glabrous, and often wi 
glandular dots especially on the under side of the leaves. Leaves 
apposta undivided. Flowers small, in axillary cymes, with very small | 
racts. ! 
56 XCII, VERBENACEÆ. [Spartothamnus. 
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also agrees not sufficiently distinct from another Asiatic species. The genus is most — . 
readily distinguished from Premna by the inflorescence, and by the 
gul ;omerous stamens. The differences in the fruit may not be constant. 
- Leaves acute at the base, glabrous above, white-tomentose 
underneath. Cymes dense. Corolla glabrous . . . . . 1. Cana. 
Leaves rounded at the base, pubescent or velvety above, some- 
what floccose underneath. Cymes dense. Corolla glabrous : 
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Leaves acute at the base, green on both sides. Cymes very 
loose. Corolla densely pubescent, white . . . . - + « s 9. C. longifolia. 
- C. cana, Linn. Mant. 198. A “small shrub,” the tomentum close 1 
and short, usually white, slightly floccose on the older branches | 
; rather firmer and more rugose when small, white-tomentose | | 
underneath. Flowers small, in rather dens cymes, the common _ 
peduncle usually about as long as the petiole. Calyx about 2 line long, T 
