ROSACEAE. 93 
STEPHANANDRA. 
(Family Rosaceae). 
Small shrubs, loosely branched: 
deciduous. Twigs terete or some- 
what 5-lined from the nodes, 
slender, zig-zag, red: pith small, 
pale or light brown, continuous. 
Buds small, superposed, the upper 
of each series often developing 
the first season or “slightly 
stalked, ovoid or oblong, with 
about 4 scales. Leaf-scars alter- 
nate, 2-ranked, small, half-round 
or triangular, slightly raised: 
bundle-traces 3 or subconfluent: 
stipule-scars relatively large. 
Stephanandras are slender 
spiraea- or kerria-like shrubs dif- 
fering from the former in some 
small respects and from the latter 
in their red and not bright green 
twigs. Winter-characters of S. 
flexuosa are given by Shirasawa, 
247, pl. 4, and of S. incisa by Schneider, f. 137. 
Buds ovoid. S. incisa. 
Buds elongated. (1). S. Tanakae. 
