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CORIARIACEAE. 
CORITARIA. 
(Family Coriariaceae). 
Shrubs, sometimes soft-wooded: 
deciduous. Twigs terete, or 4- 
lined below the nodes, stout, with 
red-scaly short spurs’ bearing 
clustered very slender shoots of 
the season: pith rather large, 
round, continuous, brownish. 
Buds at first solitary and with 2 
nearly valvate scales but very 
quickly on the stout twigs be- 
coming multiple by branching, 
with several scales. lLeaf-scars 
opposite, low, crescent-shaped or 
the smaller rounded: bundle-trace 
1: stipule-scars lacking. 
The axillary clustering of slen- 
der leafy shoots which suggest 
compound leaves recalls a some- 
what similar appearance in Zizy- 
phus, where, however, the slender 
twigs may bear flowers and fruit, 
and results in an appearance not unlike that of Prosopis and 
other Leguminosae which produce compound leaves in clus- 
ters from dwarf spurs. 
The winter-characters of Coriaria 
myrtifolia are pictured by Schneider, f. 116. 
Twigs glabrous, glossy red-brown: lenticels prominent. 
C. japonica. 
