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V. SCHIZANDRACEAJ, 
[Kadsura. 
Order V. SCHI ZAND RACE/E. 
Climbers shrubby. Leaves alternate, exstipulate. Flowers 
axillary solitary unisexual small pink. Sepals and petals g to 15, 
outer sepaloid. Stamens numerous, more or less connate into a 
fleshy mass. Anthers short. Carpels numerous, few ovuled, in 
fruit crowded into a fleshy mass. Species about 27 in 2 genera, 
Indo-Malaya, China, Japan, Southern United States. 
KADSURA, Kaempfer. 
Glabrous leaves, with entire leaves. Flowers unisexual, rose 
pink, white or yellow, small, axillary or from the stem on short 
bracteolate peduncles. Sepals and petals 9 to 12 imbricate in 
3 rows. Male flower. Stamens 5 to 15 or more in a spiral; fila¬ 
ments very short, free, or sub-connate; anthers free or connate. 
Female flower, ovaries many, densely imbricate. Stigma sessile, 
ovules 2 to 4. Fruit a globose fleshy head of i-seeded carpels. 
Seeds 1 to 2. Temperate and tropical Asia, species about 7. 
Stems stout smooth ; leaves ovate, base cuneate. 
Flowers pink . , . . . • f 1 ) K. scanaens 
Stems stout corky ; leaves ovate, base rounded. 
Flowers pink . . . . . • • ( 2 ) X. cauliflora 
Stems slender; leaves smaller lanceolate. 
Flowers cream colour . . . . . • (3) K. lanceolata 
(1) K. scandens BL FI. Jav. Schizandreee, 9, t. 1 ; King, l.c. 
375; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. iii. (2), 221, pi. 71. 
A big liane 30 to 40 ft. or more long, bark dark striate. Leaves 
coriaceous broadly ovate to ovate-oblong-acuminate, base rounded 
sub-decurrent; nerves 5 pairs, dark green, 4 to 6 in. long, 2 to 4 in. 
wide; petioles 1 in. long. Flowers axillary and from the trunk on 
bracteolate peduncles, rose pink, -5 in. wide. Sepals 3, triangular 
connate at base. Petals ovate-oblong blunt, fleshy. Stamens in 
males numerous short cuneate equal on an ovoid fleshy receptacle. 
Ovaries in females numerous. Stigmas sessile elongate. Fruit 
2 to 2-5 in. through, sub-globose. Carpels sessile globose beaked 
less than -5 in. in diameter. Hab. Common in forests at low 
elevations. Singapore; Malacca (Griffith). NegriSembilan, Tampin 
Hill (Burkill). Perak, Larut Hills (Kunstler). Penang Hill (Curtis). 
Distrib. Malay Islands. Native names : Akar Kapala Patong; Akar 
DamaDaura. Use: A decoction of the roots is used for rheumatism. 
(2) K. cauliflora Bl. FI. Jav. Schizandrece , ii. /. 2 ; King, l.c. yj$ ; 
Ann. Bot, Gard. Calc. iii. (2), 222, pi. 72. 
A big liane with pale corky bark, 80 ft. or more long and about 
3 in. through. Leaves ovate rounded, tip shortly acuminate, base 
rounded; nerves 3 to 7 pairs; 6 to 7 in. long, 3*4 to 4*5 in. wide; 
petioles 1 to 1-5 in. long. Flowers from the trunk. Sepals and 
