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new year-shoots arise on the surviving part beyond and 
below the dead assimilation-shoots, their buds may as in 
Eremosparton be found the year before; several successive 
series of new year-shoots may arise from the same place, 
so that they are arranged in bunches. 
Fig. 32. Smirnowia turkestana. A, Transverse section 
of leaf: N, vein. B, a stoma. C, epidermis with bi- 
partite hairs. A and B, X 220; C, X 53. 
The flowers are arranged in few-flowered racemes which 
are placed laterally on the year-shoots. 
The fruit is an inflated hairy pod 2—3,; centimetres 
long, it contains about 3 seeds which are hard-shelled, flat 
and reniform; as the pod is swept along by the wind, the 
seeds may be heard rattling inside. 
The structure of the leaf is isolateral (fig. 32) with 
stomata on both sides, and 3—4 layers of palisade cells filled 
with starch on the upper side and about the same number 
