VERBEN ACEAE. 329 
CLERODENDRON. 
(Family Verbenaceae). 
Soft-wooded loosely branched 
shrubs: deciduous. Twigs more 
or less obscurely 4-sided, moder- 
ate: pith relatively large, round- 
ish, white, continuous. Buds small, 
superposed but the lower often 
concealed by the leaf-scar, and 
the upper developing the first sea- 
son, round-ovoid, indistinctly few- 
scaled. Leaf-scars opposite or 
sometimes in whorls of 3, ellip- 
tical but the produced top 
notched, rather low:  bundle- 
traces about 9, more or less ag- 
gregated in a U-shaped series: 
stipule-scars lacking. 
Winter-characters of Cleroden- 
dron trichotomum are described 
and figured by Schneider, f. 191; 
and Shirasawa, 269, pl. 10. 
Twigs gray-buff, glabrescent: buds violet. C. trichotomum. 
Winter-characters of Hhretia acuminata are given by Shi- 
rasawa, 237, pl. 2; and of H. serrata, by Schneider, f. 84. The 
genus is placed in the family Boraginaceae. 
