i66 VERBENACEAE. 



CLERODENDRON. 



Deciduous half-woody plants with rather stout terete or 

 compressed twigs ; large round or squarish continuous white 

 pith ; opposite somewhat raised subelliptical leaf-scars, some- 

 times in whorls of 3, with about 10 small bundle-traces in a 

 single U-shaped group ; no stipule-scars ; conical superposed ses- 

 sile buds ; rather large ovate long-petioled often serrate leaves ; 

 perfect salver-shaped flowers in clustered axillary corymbs with 

 showy calyx and gamopetalous corolla ; and drupe-like fruit. 

 Leaves acuminate: corolla white. C. trichotomum. 



CARYOPTERIS. 



Deciduous small shrubs with slender rounded twigs; rounded 

 homogeneous pale pith ; opposite low crescent-shaped or half- 

 round small leaf-scars with I transverse bundle-trace ; no sti- 

 pule-scars ; small ovoid sessile solitary buds with about 4 ex- 

 posed scales ; petioled coarsely, toothed leaves ; small funnel- 

 shaped perfect gamopetalous flowers in dense stalked axillary 

 clusters ; and small dry fruit of 4 nutlets. 



Flowers lavender to violet. C. incana. 



Flowers white. C. incana Candida. 



CALLICARPA. French Mulberry. 



Deciduous small shrubs or half-shrubs with slender nearly 

 terete twigs ; rounded homogeneous pale pith ; opposite low 

 crescent-shaped leaf-scars with i bundle-trace ; no stipule-scars ; 

 oblong acute sessile superposed somewhat spreading naked buds ; 

 simple toothed or lobed very short-stalked leaves ; small usually 

 pink salver-shaped gamopetalous flowers in dense short-stalked 

 axillary clusters; and small often purplish berry-like drupes with 

 2-4 seed-like kernels. 



1. Leaves woolly beneath. 2. 

 Leaves not woolly. 3. 



2. Fruit violet. C. americana. 

 Fruit white. C. americana alba. 



3. Leaves rather coarse-toothed. C. purpurea. 

 Leaves serrulate. 4. 



