LILIACE.*:. 



A climbing shrub, with a tuberous rhizoma like that of Smilax china, 

 oblong or globose, 3-4 inches long, ash-coloured externally, woody and 

 whitish internally. Stems numerous, smooth, climbing, knotty, armed 

 with straight prickles. Leaves lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, acumi- 

 nate, collected in stellate fascicles. Racemes erect, shorter than the 

 leaves. Segments of the perianth linear-lanceolate, rather blunt. 

 Employed in Brazil as Sarsaparilla. 



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