74 LARDIzABALACEAE. ^ 



8. Flowers bluish or purple. C 

 Flowers red. C 



9. Styles feathery in fruit. 10. 



Styles without hairs. C 



10. Flowers small (scarcely 2 cm.), fragrant. C paniculata. 

 Flowers large (some 8 cm.)- n. 



11. Flowers longer than their stalks. C lanuginosa, 

 Flowers shorter than their stalks. C patent 



32. Leaves only once compound. 13. 



Leaves often bipinnate, half-evergreen. C. Plammula. 



13. Leaflets only 3: flowers dioecious. C, virginiaria. 



Leaflets often more than 3: flowers perfect. C Vitalba. 



ZANTHORHIZA. Yellowroot. 



Small simple shrubs with rather slender soft-wooded stems; 

 somewhat angular continuous pale pith ; narrow transverse low 

 leaf-scars with about 7 bundle-traces ; no stipule scars ; solitary 

 buds with few exposed scales ; long-stalked pinnate leaves clust- 

 ered at end of the season's growth ; small flowers in openly 

 branched racemes ; and small-seeded follicles. 

 Leaflets incisely serrate or parted. Z. apiifolia. 



Family LARDIZABALACEAE. 



A small family, often included in Berberidaceae, of no great 

 use except for the effective climber here considered. 



AKEBIA. 



Deciduous woody twining plants with rather slender green 

 stems ; roundish homogeneous pith ; alternate much raised cres- 

 cent-shaped leaf-scars, with several irregularly placed bundle- 

 traces at point of breakage, but reduced to 3 in a single series 

 near the stem ; no stipule-scars ; acute ovoid sessile divergent 

 buds with a dozen exposed scales ; long-petioled digitate leaves 

 of 5 stalked leaflets ; rather small functionally dioecious lurid 

 polypetalous flowers racemed from the nodes ; and rather large 

 dehiscent fruit with numerous small seeds immersed in the 

 placental pulp. 

 Leaflets 5, nearly entire, notched at apex. A. quinata. 



