54 LARDIZABALACEAE. 
STAUNTONIA. 
(Family Lardizabalaceae). 
Strong woody twiners, some- 
times cut back and grown in bush 
form: evergreen. Stems terete, 
moderate: pith moderate, contin- 
uous, at first white. Buds mod- 
erate, sessile, ovoid, with some 8 
ovate mucronate rather fleshy 
scales, the end-bud lacking. Leaf- 
scars alternate, deeply crescent- 
shaped or half-round, somewhat 
raised: bundle-traces numerous, 
scattered: stipule-scars lacking. 
Leaves long-petioled, digitate, with 
about 6 long-stalked elliptical en- 
tire leaflets with: channeled ab- 
ruptly short-acuminate tip. 
Stauntonia becomes a_ high- 
climbing vine in the South. It is 
grown as far north as Washing- 
ton, where, in the Botanical Gar- 
den, its branches are cut back 
though the trunk is not killed. In foliage it is quite unlike 
any other shrub hardy in the same latitude. 
Stems green, glabrous: leaves paler beneath. S. hexaphylla. 
