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bedding plants Verbena and Lantana are familiar examples 

 the latter a bad weed in Hawaii, and one Clerodendron is a 

 very effective greenhouse climber. 



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 

 sessile 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. 



CABYOPTERIS. 



Deciduous small shrubs with slender rounded twigs; 

 rounded homogeneous pale pith; opposite low crescent-shaped 

 or half-round small leaf-scars with 1 transverse bundle-trace; 

 no stipule-scars; small ovoid sessile solitary buds with aboui 

 4 exposed scales; petioled coarsely toothed leaves 1 ; small fun- 

 nel-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 1 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. 



