Citharexylum


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Read about Citharexylum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Citharexylum (Zither-wood: used for the making of certain musical instruments). Verbenaceae. Shrubs or trees, sparingly planted in southern California, and perhaps elsewhere South for ornament. Spiny or unarmed, tomentose or glabrous, with opposite entire serrate often spinose-dentate lvs.: fls. white or sometimes yellow, odorous, small, in spiciform terminal or axillary racemes; calyx 5-toothed or -lobed; corolla-tube cylindrical, the limb broad and 5-lobed, the lobes spreading and obovate; stamens 5, included, one of them abortive, the 4 polliniferous ones didynamous; ovary more or less 4-celled, each cell 1-seeded; style often 2-lobed: fr. a fleshy drupe, partly inclosed in the calyx.—About 20 species, Mex. to S. Amer.

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