MAGNOLIACEjE, schizandre.e. 



Plate 22. 

 SCHIZANDRA, Michx. 



Flores monoici, saepius pentameri ! nempe : Sepala 5. 



Petala 5. Stamina 5, brevissima, dilatata, in orbem 5-lobum 



monadelpha : antheros loculis connectivum latissimum cu- 



neiforme marginantibus valde sejunctis. Carpella plurima, 



2-ovulata, imbricato-capitata : fructifera baccata, supra gyno- 



phorum denique elongatum pedunculiforme laxe spicata. — 



Frutex sarmentosus, foliis deciduis. 



Schizandba, Michx. FI.2 p. 18. t. 47. Bot. Mag. 1. 1413. DC. Syst. 

 I. p. 544. Bart. Fl. N.Am. l.t. 13. Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 

 1. p. 46, 662. Endl. Gen. 4733. 



Flowers monoecious; the floral envelopes, &c, of the 

 sterile and fertile flowers alike. Sepals usually 5, quincun- 

 cially imbricated in aestivation, sometimes 6, rotund-ovate, 

 concave, membranaceous with rather scarious margins, some- 

 what colored (greenish-white, above sometimes tinged with 

 red), deciduous ; the two exterior smaller. Petals 5, quin- 

 cuncially imbricated in aestivation (rarely 6, when they are 

 imbricated in two series), hypogynous, oblong-obovate, spread- 

 ing, rather fleshy, abruptly thickened at the contracted base, 

 crimson, copiously sprinkled with pellucid dots, deciduous. 

 Ster. Fl. Stamens 5, opposite the petals, their short and 

 broad filaments monadelphous, so as to form a circular and 

 flat 5-cleft disk, occupying the whole centre of the flower : 

 anthers with their two cells adnate to the margins of (he 

 dilated-cuneiform connective, much smaller than it, thus 

 widely disjoined, and those of adjacent anthers brought into 

 contact, but not at all connate, neither extrorse nor introrse, 

 opening longitudinally (toward the cleft). Fert. Fl. Pis- 

 tils indefinite, closely imbricated-capitate on the oblong 

 receptacle, distinct : ovary ovoid, sessile, one-celled, two- 



