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VERBENACEAE. 



? 



Twigs gray-puberulent. 



CARYOPTEEIS. 

 (Family Verbenaceae). 



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 t>f indistinct canescent 

 scales. Leaf-scars opposite, broad- 

 ly crescent-shaped : stipule-scars 

 lacking. (Mast acanthus ) . 



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. 



