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new year -shoots arise on the surviving part beyond and 

 below the dead assimilation-shoots, their buds may as in 

 Eremosparton be found the year before; several successive 

 series of new year-shoots may arise from the same place, 

 so that they are arranged in bunches. 



Fig. 32. Smirnoiuia turkestana. A, Transverse section 

 of leaf: N, vein. B, a stoma. C, epidermis with bi- 

 partite hairs. A and B, X 220; C, X 53. 



The flowers are arranged in few-flowered racemes which 

 are placed laterally on the year-shoots. 



The fruit is an inflated hairy pod 2 3,5 centimetres 

 long, it contains about 3 seeds which are hard-shelled, flat 

 and reniform; as the pod is swept along by the wind, the 

 seeds may be heard rattling inside. 



The structure of the leaf is isolateral (fig. 32) with 

 stomata on both sides, and 3 4 layers of palisade cells filled 

 with starch on the upper side and about the same number 



