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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 tiirkestana. A, Transverse section 

 of leaf: JV, vein. B, a stoma. C, epidermis with bi- 

 partite liairs. A and B, X 220; C, X 53. 



Tlie flowers are arranged in few-flowered racemes which 

 are placed latei-ally on the year-shoots. 



The fruit is an inflated hairy pod 2 — 3,.5 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 i-attling inside. 



The structure of the leaf is isolateral (fig. 32) with 

 storaata on both sides, and 3—4 layers of palisade cells filled 

 with starch on the upper side and about the same number 



