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Verbenaceae 



3A. Cymes supra-axillary; anthers broadly ellipsoidal 2. C. dichotoma 



3B. Cymes axillary. 



4A. Corolla 1 mm. long, not glandular-dotted; branches slightly 4-angled; leaves with 12 to 14 pairs of nerves. 3. C. takakiimensis 



4B. Corolla 3-5 mm. long, glandular-dotted; branches terete; leaves with 5 to 9 pairs of nerves 4. C. japonica 



IB. Plants densely soft-pubescent to villous; calyx pubescent, 4-fid. 



5A. Leaves 5-10 cm. long, rounded to obtuse at base; branches and leaves with whitish stellate hairs less than 1 mm. long; calyx-lobes 



lanceolate; flowers 4-5 mm. long, about 10 in a cyme; anthers 1.5-2 mm. long 5. C. mollis 



5B. Leaves 15-30 cm. long, gradually narrowed at base; branches and petioles with pinnately branched hairs 1.5-3 mm. long; calyx-lobes 

 linear; flowers about 1.5 mm. long, very many in a cyme; anthers about 0.7 mm. long 6. C. kpchiana 



1. Callicarpa shikokiana Makino. C. ya^usimensis dunculate, scattered stellate-puberulent; corolla pale purple, 



Koidz. TosA-MURASAKi, Yakushima-ko-murasaki. De- 3-5 mm. long, usually puberulent and glandular-dotted; an- 



ciduous shrub, scattered short-pilose; branches slender, terete; thers oblong, about 2 mm. long; fruit purple, about 3 mm. 



leaves membranous, 5-12 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, caudate, across. June-Aug. Hokkaido (s. distr.), Honshu, Shikoku, 



cuneate at base, coarsely and obtuse toothed, glandular-dotted Kyushu; common and variable. Ryukyus, Formosa, China, 



on both sides, loosely pilose, especially on nerves on both sides; and Manchuria. 



petioles 5-10 mm. long; cymes axillary, short-pedunculate, Var. liixurians Rehd. C. australis Koidz.; C. japonica 



rather many-flowered; corolla puberulent, scarcely glandular, subsp. luxurians (Rehd.) Masam. & Yanagih.; Premna stami- 



about 3 mm. long, 4-lobed to the middle; anthers broadly nea Maxim. O-murasaki-shikibu. Leaves thicker, larger, 



ellipsoidal, about 0.6 mm. long; fruit purple, about 2 mm. rather lustrous above, 10-15(-20) cm. long, 4-6(-7) cm. wide, 



across. July-Sept. Warmer districts; Shikoku, Kyushu. serrulate; cymes larger with thicker branches. July-Aug. 



2. Callicarpa dichotoma (Lour.) K.Koch. Porphyra Lowlands near the sea; Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; rather com- 

 dichotoma Lour.; C. purpurea Juss.; C. gracilis Sieb. & Zucc; mon. 



C. japonica var. dichotoma (Lour.) Bakhuizen ^Ko-muea- 5. Callicarpa mollis Sieb. & Zucc. C. zollingeriana 



SAKi, Ko-SHiKiBU. Deciduous shrub with slender purplish Schauer Yabu-murasaki. Deciduous shrub, stellate-hairy 



branches, minutely stellate-hairy while young; leaves rather on young branches; leaves thinly membranous, ovate to 

 thick, obovate-oblong or obovate, 3-6 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, broadly so or ovate-elliptic, 5-10(-12) cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. 

 abruptly acuminate, cuneate to acute at base, loosely puberulent wide, acuminate, rounded to obtuse at base, serrate, densely 

 above and on nerves beneath, coarsely serrate near tip, the pubescent above with soft simple hairs, densely stellate-pubes- 

 petioles 1-4 mm. long; cymes supra-axillary, 10- to 20-flowered, cent beneath, minutely glandular-dotted on both surfaces, the 

 the peduncles 1-1.5 cm. long; corolla pale purple, glabrous, petioles 3-5 mm. long; cymes often more than 10-flowered or 

 about 3 mm. long; anthers broadly ellipsoidal, about 0.6 mm. less, densely stellate-pubescent; calyx 5-parted, the lobes Ian- 

 long; fruit about 3 mm. across, purple. July-Aug. Honshu ceolate, densely stellate-pubescent or with variously branched 



(Rikuchu Prov. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Korea, grayish hairs; corolla 4-5 mm. long, the tube nearly as long 



Ryukyus, Formosa, and China. as the calyx; fruit purple, 3-4 mm. across. June-July. 



3. Callicarpa takakumensis Hatus. Takakiima-mura- Honshu (Rikuchu Prov. and southw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. 



SAKI. Shrub with slightly 4-angled glabrous branches; leaves Korea. 



membranous, oblong-lanceolate, 10-18 cm. long, 2.5-3.7 cm. Callicarpa X shirasawana Makino. Inu-murasaki- 



wide, acuminate at both ends, obsoletely serrulate, grayish shikibo. Hybrid of C. japonica X C. mollis. Honshu. 



puberulent on nerves above, densely discoid-glandular beneath, 6. Callicarpa kochiana Makino. C. tomentosa sensu 



the lateral nerves 12-14 pairs, the petioles about 1 cm. long; auct. Japon., non Willd.; C. longiloba Merr. Birodo-mura- 



cymes axillary, densely many-flowered, about 3 cm. across, the saki, Oni-yabu-murasaki. Deciduous shrub with pinnately 



peduncles about 1.3 cm. long; calyx glabrous; corolla about 1 branched yellow-brown hairs; branches thick, terete, villous; 



mm. long, puberulent outside; stamens about twice as long as leaves chartaceous, narrowly oblong, broadly lanceolate, or 



the corolla; fruit about 2 mm. across. Aug. Kyushu ovate-oblong, 15-30 cm. long, 4-8 cm. wide, long-acuminate, 



(Mount Takakuma in Osumi) ; rare. gradually narrowed at base, serrulate, with gray-yellow stellate 



4. Callicarpa japonica Thunb. C. murasa\i Sieb.; C. and pinnately branched hairs beneath, obsoletely glandular- 



japonica forma angustijolia Miq. ^Murasaki-shikibu. De- dotted, the lateral nerves 8-12 pairs, the petioles 2-3.5 cm. 



ciduous shrub; branches terete, minutely stellate-puberulent long; cymes densely many-flowered, short-pedunculate; calyx 



while young, glabrescent; leaves membranous to thinly char- 5-parted, the lobes broadly linear; corolla about 1.5 mm. long; 



taceous, obovate, ovate or oblong, 6-12 cm. long, 2.5-4.5 cm. anthers oblong, about 0.5 mm. long; fruit about 2 mm. across, 



wide, acuminate to acute at both ends, serrulate, nearly gla- enclosed by the calyx, white. Aug. Honshu (s. Kinki 



brous to loosely puberulent on both surfaces, yellowish glandu- Distr.), Shikoku, Kyushu (s. distr.). Formosa, China, and 



lar-dotted below, the lateral nerves 5-9 pairs, the petioles 2-10 Indochina. 



mm. long; cymes rather many-flowered, axillary, short-pe- 



4. PREMNA L. 



Hama-kusagi Zoku 



Shrubs or trees; leaves opposite, entire or toothed; cymes axillary, in terminal corymbs, panicles, or racemes; flowers small, 

 zygomorphic, white, yellowish, or purplish, often polygamous; calyx small, campanulate, truncate or toothed; corolla-tube 

 rather short, often hairy inside the throat, the limb 4-lobed, the lobes somewhat unequal, the dorsal ones larger, retuse or lip- 

 like; stamens didymous, rarely exserted; ovary 2-locular, with 2 ovules in each locule; style bifid; fruit a small globose fleshy 



drupe, with a persistent calyx at base, die stone solitary, 4-locular, sometimes 2- or 3-locular. ^About 40 species, chiefly in 



warmer regions. 



