166 VERBENACEAE, 
CLERODENDRON, 
Deciduous half-woody plants with rather stout terete or 
compressed twigs; large round or squarish continuous white 
pith; opposite somewhat raised subelliptical leaf-scars, some- 
times in whorls of 3, with about 10 small bundle-traces in a 
single U-shaped group; no stipule-scars; conical superposed ses- 
sile buds; rather large ovate long-petioled often serrate leaves; 
perfect salver-shaped flowers in clustered axillary corymbs with 
showy calyx and gamopetalous corolla; and drupe-like fruit. 
Leaves acuminate: corolla white. C. trichotomum. 
CARYOPTERIS. 
Deciduous small shrubs with slender rounded twigs; rounded 
homogeneous pale pith; opposite low crescent-shaped or half- 
round small leaf-scars with I transverse bundle-trace; no sti- 
pule-scars; small ovoid sessile solitary buds with about 4 ex- 
posed scales; petioled coarsely, toothed leaves; small funnel- 
shaped perfect gamopetalous flowers in dense stalked axillary 
clusters; and small dry fruit of 4 nutlets. 
Flowers lavender to violet. C. incana. 
Flowers white. C. incana candida. 
CALLICARPA. French Mulberry. | 
Deciduous small shrubs or half-shrubs with slender nearly 
terete twigs; rounded homogeneous pale pith; opposite low 
crescent-shaped leaf-scars with I bundle-trace; no stipule-scars ; 
oblong acute sessile superposed somewhat spreading naked buds; 
simple toothed or lobed very short-stalked leaves; small usually 
pink salver-shaped gamopetalous flowers in dense short-stalked 
axillary clusters; and small often purplish berry-like drupes with 
2-4 seed-like kernels. 
1. Leaves woolly beneath. 2. 
Leaves not woolly. 3. 
2. Fruit violet. C. americana. 
Fruit white. C. americana alba. 
3. Leaves rather coarse-toothed. C. purpurea. 
Leaves serrulate. 4. 
