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VERBENACEAE. 
CARYOPTERIS. 
(Family Verbenaceae). 
Twigs gray-puberulent. 
Small, soft-wooded shrubs: de- 
ciduous. Twigs round or very ob- 
scurely 4-sided, slender: pith rel- 
atively large, rounded, white, con- 
tinuous. Buds small, superposed, 
the upper often developing the 
first season, round-conical, with 1 
or 2 pairs of indistinct canescent 
scales. Leaf-scars opposite, broad- 
ly crescent-shaped: stipule-scars 
lacking. (Mastacanthus). 
Winter-characters of C. incana 
(C. Mastacanthus, C. sinensis) 
are pictured by Schneider, f. 122. 
Caryopteris. Callicarpa, Vitex 
and Buddleia are somewhat simi- 
lar suffruticose or soft-wooded 
genera differing more in detail 
than in general winter appear- 
ance. 
C. incana. 
