136 SOLANAjCEAE 



2. Fruit violet. C. americana. 

 Fruit white. C. americana alba. 



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

 Leaves serrulate. 4. 



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 slen- 

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

 pith; opposite low crescent-shaped small leaf-scars with a sin- 

 gle curved bundle-trace; no stipule-scars; rounded sessile 

 superposed tomentose buds with indistinct scales; digitate 

 slender-petioled leaves; rather small perfect typically tubular 

 gamopetalous flowers 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. 



LVCIUM. 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 1 

 bundle-trace; no stipule-scars; more or les& multiple sessile 

 buds with few exposed scales; simple moderately small lance- 

 olate entire cuneately subsessile leaves; moderate shortly 

 funnel-form perfect gamopetalous axillary flowers; and orange 

 berries. 



