v. berberidacejE (oliver). 51 



Natives of cold and temperate countries, within the tropics principally confined to elevated 



1. BERBERIS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 43. 



Sepals 6-9, petaloid. Petals 6, about the same size or little smaller than 



j sepals. Stamens 6 ; anthers dehiscing upwards in two valves ; stigma 



Patate. Ovules few, erect.— Shrubs with the first leaves of the shoots often 



JWuced to spines, bearing the fasciculate 1-foliolate leaves in their axils. 



flowers yellow, racemose, fasciculate or solitary. 



A large genus in temperate climates, absent from the Cape and Australia. 



l. B. aristata, DC. Syst. Veg. ii. 8. Leaves coriaceous, more or less 



persistent, usually obovate or oblanceolate, spinulose-serrate or entire, variable 



n size, in our specimens 1 in. long or less, sometimes much longer. Flowers 



pendulous or suberect racemes or cymes. Stigma of ovary and blackish 



it supported upon a short style. — B, timtoria, Lesch. in Mem. Mus. ix. 



P8Sek.Pl. Abyss, i. 10. 



S e , L 1' nd - Abyssinia, Br. Roth ! Petit. 

 dint in th-cr- ° nly re P res entative of the Order known to me in tropical Afnca, is abuu- 

 lt is » i lmalav a> occurring also in the mountains of the Indian peninsula and Ceylon. 

 ■ttatil r y allied to the common Barberry (£. vulgaris), which differs principally in 

 e 8tl S ma - For synonymy, see Hook. f. et Thorns. ' Flora Indica,' i. 222. 



Order VI. NYMPREACE.E] (by Prof. Oliver). 



and l0 Tr S m ° Stly lar S e > Hermaphrodite. Sepals 3-6, free or united at the base 

 orind l? Fent to the ^ceptacle, in which the carpels are immersed. Petals 3 

 Stam - te ; the inuer smaller and often passing gradually into the stamens, 

 toft. . lndefinite « h ypogynous, perigynous or almost epigynous, according 

 side, Ir? t0 which the ovaries are immersed in the receptacle, upon the 

 aatL , hich the stam ens are inserted; filaments subulate or petaloid ; 

 JJ«» adnate, 2-celled, introrse and dehiscing longitudinally in the African 

 formin ar P els numerous (3-oo), free or immersed in the receptacle, 

 *tel!iV puriousl y syncarpous pistil; stigmas linear, radiating, incurved 

 W t ated - 0vules 2-3, or So, covering the walls of the ovaries, ana- 

 carLi ! V 5 ruit more or less spongy and baccate, multilocular, indehiscent, or 

 N m" lnct Seeds with a double albumen (perisperm and endosperm) 

 b U8u n a U e fabryo.— Aquatic plants, with prostrate, rooting rhizomes, float- 

 • v lar £ e and orbicular leaves, and very handsome flowers. 



^ 8 tXl mil ?'/ e P resented ^ temperate and tropical regions of both hemispheres. As is 

 $32 WUh wa ter-plants, some of the species are very widely diffused and very van- 

 ^als <? c °nsequeuce a proportionally extended synonymy. 

 £1? £ ar pelsfree .... 1. Brasenia. 

 *• Car Pels qo, consolidated '.'.'.'.'.'.'. 2 - »«"""" 



1 BBASENIA, Schreber ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. I 46. 



Pals3 - Petals 3. Stamens 12-18; filaments subulate. Carpels free ; 



e 2 



