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In sliort, the configuration of tlie androceum is very variable, and 

 presents so many gradual changes in this genus as to render it 

 impossible to found any exact subdivisions on it. 



It is exactly the same with Kadmra,' a genus of plants from the 

 South and East of Asia, which have been separated from ScJiizandra 

 on account of a single absolute character — the form of the carpels 

 as a whole. They are here united into a ball or short head, while 

 those of Schizandra proper, form a sort of more or less elongated 

 spike. But we are unwilling for this one reason alone to separate 



Schizandra (Kadsu/ra) japonica? 



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Fig. 186. 

 Longitudinal section of male flower. 



Fig. 188. 

 Stamen, isolated. 



Fig. 190. 



Longitudinal section of 



carpel. 



Kadsura from Schizandra, except as a section,' because in Magnolia 



1 K^EMPF., ex Juss., in Ann. Mus., xvi. 340. 

 — DuNAL, Mon. Anonac, 57. — DC, Prodr., i. 

 83. — Wall., Flor. Nepal., i. 7. — Bl., Fl. Jav., 

 Schizandr., 7, 1. 1, 2. — SiEB. & Zxrcc, FL Japon., 

 i. 40, 1. 17.— ENDL.,Ge»., n. 4731.— Benth., FL 

 Sonkff., 8.— Hook. & Tiiosis., FL Lid., i. 83.— 

 H. Bx., Adansonia, iii. 43 ; vii. 11, 66. — B. H., 

 Oen.,\^, n. 9.— MiQ., FL LuL-Bat., i., pars 2,18. 

 — Walp., Rep., i. 92 ; v. 15 ; Ann., iv. 78. — Sar- 

 cocarpon K.f.mpf.,^4»»cb?j. Exot., 476, 185, t. 477. 

 — Bl., Bijdraj.,21. Although Lixxjjcs admitted 

 K. japonica, it was A. L. DE JcssiEU, who in 

 1810 (Ann. Mus., xvi. 340) considered the Uvaria 

 japonica of Thuxbekg worthy of forming a 

 special group. Of this plant, he says, " we pro- 

 pose to make a separate genus under the name 



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of Kadmra." Hence, in uniting Kadsura and 

 Schizandra into one genus, we have had to prefer 

 the latter name, which dates from 1803, and 

 which we find possesses the further advantage of 

 not forcing us to suppress the name of Schizan- 

 drecB in order to substitute that of KadsurecB. 



' Schizatidra japonica H. By. (nee A. Gray). 

 — Kadsura japonica L., Spec, 756. — DuN., 

 Mon. Anonac, 57.— MiQ., Ann. Mus. Litgd. 

 Bat., iii. 91. — DC, Prodr., i. m.— Uvaria 

 japonica Thtjnb., Flor. Japon., 237. — Futa 

 Kadsura, &c., K-i:mpf., loc cit. 



3 See Adansonia, vii. 10. Especially is it im- 

 possible to distinguish Kadsura and Schizandra 

 by the aspect of the anthers, and authors (such 

 as Enblicheb) are wrong in attributing extrorse 



