74 LARDIZABALACEAE. 
8. Flowers bluish or purple. C. Viorna. 
Flowers red. ; C. texensis. 
c. Styles feathery in fruit. Io. 
Styles without hairs. C. Viticella. 
10. Flowers small (scarcely 2 cm.), fragrant. C. paniculata. 
Flowers large (some 8 cm.). II. 
11. Flowers longer than their stalks. C. lanuginosa. 
Flowers shorter than their stalks. C. patens. 
12. Leaves only once compound. 13. 
Leaves often bipinnate, half-evergreen. C. Flammula. 
13. Leaflets only 3: flowers dioecious. C. virginiana. 
Leaflets often more than 3: flowers perfect. C. Vitalba. 
ZANTHORHIZA. Yellowroot. 
Small simple shrubs with rather slender soft-wooded stems; 
somewhat angular continuous pale pith; narrow transverse low 
leaf-scars with about 7 bundle-traces; no stipule scars; solitary 
buds with few exposed scales; long-stalked pinnate leaves clust- 
ered at end of the season’s growth; small flowers in openly 
branched racemes; and small-seeded follicles. 
Leaflets incisely serrate or parted. Z. apiifolia. 
Family LARDIZABALACEAE. 
A small family, often included in Berberidaceae, of no great 
use except for the effective climber here considered. 
AKEBIA, 
Deciduous woody twining plants with rather slender green 
stems; roundish homogeneous pith; alternate much raised cres- 
cent-shaped leaf-scars. with several irregularly placed bundle- 
traces at point of breakage, but reduced to 3 in a single series 
near the stem; no stipule-scars; acute ovoid sessile divergent 
buds with a dozen exposed scales; long-petioled digitate leaves 
of 5 stalked leaflets; rather small functionally dioecious lurid 
polypetalous flowers racemed from the nodes; and rather large 
dehiscent fruit with numerous small seeds immersed in the 
- placental pulp. 
Leaflets 5, nearly entire, notched at apex. A. quinata. 
