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LILIACE-i:.A climbing shrub, with a tuberous rhizoma like that of Smilax china,oblong or globose, 3-4 inches long, ash-coloured externally, woody andwhitish internally. Stems numerous, smooth, climbing, knotty, armedwith straight prickles. Leaves lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, acuminate,collected in stellate fascicles. Racemes erect, shorter than theleaves. Segments of the perianth linear-lanceolate, rather blunt.Employed in Brazil as Sarsaparilla.

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