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Labdizabalaceae. 



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. 



