VERBEN ACEAE. 331 
CALLICARPA. French Mulberry. 
(Family Verbenaceae). 
Rather small and _ soft-wooded 
shrubs: deciduous. Twigs round 
or obscurely 4-sided, slender, more 
or less stellate-scurfy: pith rela- 
tively large, rounded, white, con- 
tinuous. Buds small, superposed, 
often distinctly stalked or the 
uppermost developing the first 
season, round or fusiform-oblong, 
naked or the smaller appearing to 
have 2 nearly valvate_ scales. 
Leaf-scars opposite or the pairs 
often irregularly separated in 4 
ranks, broadly crescent-shaped, 
low: bundle-trace 1, crescent- 
shaped: stipule-scars lacking. 
Winter-character references:— 
Callicarpa japonica. Schneider, f. 
191;° ‘Shirasawa, 269,. ph iO. o@: 
mollis. Shirasawa, 269, pl. 10. C. 
purpurea. Shirasawa, 269, pl. 10. 
1. Buds fusiform or oblong: twigs gray-buff. (1). C. japonica. 
Buds subglobose: twigs dingy straw-color. 2. 
2. Twigs glabrescent. (2). C. purpurea. 
Twigs persistently scurfy. C. americana. 
