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CORIAKIACEAE. 



COEIAEIA. 



(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. Leaf-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. 



