SOLANACEAE, 167 
4. Fruit violet. C. japonica. 
Fruit white. C. japonica leucocarpa. 
Vitex. Chaste Tree. 
Deciduous shrubs or half-shrubs with soft brown wood 
with small ducts, large and crowded in spring but decreasing 
and diffused in summer, and fine medullary rays; rather slender 
4-sided or 4-lined twigs; relatively large continuous white pith; 
opposite low crescent-shaped small leaf-scars with a single curved 
bundle-trace; no stipule-scars; rounded. sessile superposed to- 
mentose buds with indistinct scales; digitate slender-petioled 
leaves; rather small perfect typically tubular gamopetalous flow- 
ers crowded in the axils; and small 4-celled drupe-like or finally 
dry peppery-aromatic fruits. 
1. Leaflets entire or low-serrate. 2. 
Leaflets deeply pinnatifid, V. Negundo incisa. 
2. Flowers lavender. V. Agnus-Castus. 
Flowers blue. V. Agnus-Castus caerulea. 
Flowers white. V. Agnus-Castus alba. 
Family SOLANACEAE. Potato Family. 
A large widespread family, chiefly of herbs, containing such 
important species as potato, tomato, egg-plant, capsicum, tobacco, 
nightshade and henbane. Schizanthus, Petunia, etc., are much 
grown for their flowers. 
Lyctum. Matrimony Vine. 
Deciduous spreading or scrambling shrubs with pale bark; 
slender often spiny angled twigs; somewhat 3-sided continuous 
pale pith; alternate raised crescent-shaped leaf-scars with I 
bundle-trace; no stipule-scars; more or less multiple sessile buds 
with few exposed scales; simple moderately small lanceolate 
entire cuneately subsessile leaves; moderate shortly funnel-form 
perfect gamopetalous axillary flowers; and orange berries. 
Leaves gray-green: fruit above 10 mm. long. L. halimifolium, 
Leaves bright green: fruit 20 mm. long. L. chinense. 
