Verrenaceae. 



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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, pi. 10. C. 

 mollis. Shirasawa, 269, pi. 10. C. 

 purpurea. Shirasawa, 269, pi. 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. 



