38 LARDIZABAJLACEAE 



scars; solitary buds with few exposed scales; long-stalked 

 pinnate leaves clustered 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 climbers 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 bun- 

 dle-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 digi- 

 tate 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. 



STAUNTONIA. 



Evergreen woody glabrous twiners, bush-like if cut back, 

 with soft wood; strong terete green twigs; rounded continuous 

 pith; alternate nearly half-round leaf-scars with numerous 

 scattered bundle-traces; no stipule-scars; ovoid blunt sessile 

 buds with about 8 rather fleshy scales, the end-bud lacking; 

 digitate long-petioled leaves; monoecious apetalous 6-merous 

 fragrant white flowers in axillary racemes; and rather large 

 red-marked berry-like fruit. 

 Leaflets 5 or 6, petioled, entire. S. hexaphylla. 



Family 'BERBERIDACEAE. Barberry Family. 

 A small family some shrubs of which are much used in 

 landscape work. The European barberry is viewed with dis- 

 favor and its cultivation is prohibited very often because, if 



