Verbenaceae. 



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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, pi. 10. 



Twigs gray-buff, glabrescent: buds violet. C. trichotomum. 

 Winter-characters of Ehretia acuminata are given by Shi- 

 rasawa, 237, pi. 2; and of E. serrata, by Schneider, f. 84. The 

 genus is placed in the family Boraginaceae. 



