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4. Fruit violet. C. japonica. 



Fruit white. C. japonica leucocarpa. 



VITEX. Chaste Tree. 



Deciduous shrubs or half-shrubs with soft brown wood 

 with small ducts, large and crowded in spring but decreasing 

 and diffused in summer, and fine medullary rays ; rather slender 

 4-sided or 4-lined twigs ; relatively large continuous white pith ; 

 opposite low crescent-shaped small leaf-scars with a single curved 

 bundle-trace; no stipule-scars; rounded sessile superposed to- 

 mentose buds with indistinct scales ; digitate slender-petioled 

 leaves ; rather small perfect typically tubular gamopetalous flow- 

 ers crowded in the axils ; and small 4-celled drupe-like or finally 

 dry peppery-aromatic fruits. 



1. Leaflets entire or low-serrate. 2. 



Leaflets deeply pinnatifid. V. Negundo incisa. 



2. Flowers lavender. V. Agnus-Castus. 

 Flowers blue. V. Agnus-Castus caerulea. 

 Flowers white. V. Agnus-Castus alba. 



Family SOLANACEAE. Potato Family. 

 A large widespread family, chiefly of herbs, containing such 

 important species as potato, tomato, egg-plant, capsicum, tobacco, 

 nightshade and henbane. Schizanthus, Petunia, etc., are much 

 grown for their flowers. 



LYCIUM. Matrimony Vine. 



Deciduous spreading or scrambling shrubs with pale bark; 

 slender often spiny angled twigs; somewhat 3-sided continuous 

 pale pith ; alternate raised crescent-shaped leaf-scars with I 

 bundle-trace; no stipule-scars; more or less multiple sessile buds 

 with few exposed scales > simple moderately small lanceolate 

 entire cuneately subsessile leaves; moderate shortly funnel-form 

 perfect gamopetalous axillary flowers ; and orange berries. 

 Leaves gray-green: fruit above 10 mm. long. L. halimi folium. 

 Leaves bright green : fruit 20 mm. long. L. chinense. 



