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Ordbb CI I. LARDIZABALACE^.— Lakuizabalads. 



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Twining smooth shrubs. Leaves alternate, compound, without stipuli 

 ■olitarj or clustered. Flowers coloured white, lilac, deep purple, 

 ■ometimes fragrant in 2 row 



opposite tin- sepals, die inni i 

 gland-like, or 0. Stann i 

 petals : filaments united ii I 

 distinct : antln re turned outw 

 inwards, 2-celk '1, "| i uing I ■• 

 slit. Pollen when wet sphi 

 Rudiments of >>\. 



ire but larg< r, w ii I 

 stamens. ' 'arpels distim . 

 one-celled, with a >1 i ■ i 



1a. i >\ uli - manj . ran 1} - 

 ■ u tlie inner surface <>t tli 

 Fruit short-stalked, berried, . 

 rarely on< rolliculai 



: 

 nous integument ; albumi 

 and bornj , large ; embryo mil 



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towards tin 

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 ilu \ arc readily known by their l< avesl eing compound, ami tin 

 in the inside ol the ovary, with the single exce] tion ol a Madagascar pla 

 which probably, as M. Decaisne suggests, hardly beloi 

 regards them as otherwise allied on the one band to Ks 

 leaves and a great many carpels, whose ovules an nol 

 Berberids, whose foliage and flowers issuing from seal) i 

 finally to Anonads thi I N ubt the) 



relationship of Menispermads, whatever that i 

 of Flacourtia, according to Griffith. 



Two of the genera inhabit the cooler pan- i : SoutJ 

 from tlie temperate parts of China. Burasaia i- die onh ti 



These plants appear to be barmli as. The fruits I 

 »f India, according t>> 1 i. »\ K-. Those of Stauutoi ... In « 

 and arc eaten by the countrj pi o] le ol Japan, wl 

 domestic remed) for ophthalmia - I 



CCX.— Lard 

 ■ ; fruit of a 1 ardisabala ; i aci 



