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Malacca, Griffith.— Distrib. Java. 

 . Branches rigid, flcxuous, smooth ; young pubescent. Leaves 3^^ by 1^-1 1 in-> s^b- 

 conaceous,^ base rounded, concolorons, shining above, paler beneath with reticulate 

 vems; petiole f in. Peduncles of male numerous, ^-f in., slender, glabrous. Flowers 

 nunute. Drupes tomentose. — A very anomalous genus. 



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Order VI. BERBERIDE^. (By Hooker f. & Thomson.) 



Usually shrubby, sometimes climbing, glabrous plants. Leaves simple or 

 compound, with articulate segments; buds scaly. Stipules very .rare {Ber- . 

 »«'T*j. Flowers often globose, regular, solitary or in simple or compound 

 r^emes, usually yellow or white. Sepals and petals free, hypogynous, very 

 raaucous 2-many-seriate, in 3- rarely 4-6-nary wTiorls, imbricate, or the sepals 

 a tl j'^^^- Stamens 4-6 (rarely 8) opposite the petals, free or connate ; 

 antbers adnate, erect, dehiscing by lateral or dorsal slits, or by 2 revolute or 

 sti J^i °^ valves. Carpels 1-3, rarely more, oblong ; style short or 



"gnia dilated or conic or oblong ; ovules usually indefinite on the ventral 



"pure or covering the walls of the ovary, anatropous rarely orthotropous, 

 ttka^^'^ dry or fleshy, dehiscent or not. Seeds with a crustaceous fleshy 

 ciin°"/ *^?^^ ' *^bumen copious, dense ; embryo minute or long, straight or 



"^ea, radicle next the hiluni.— Disteib. Genera about 20, with 200 species, 



"leny temperate and mountain plants. 



Lo^ ^ ^' '•^'dizabaleBB. Stein usually climbing. Flowers unisexual or 

 V ^ygamous. Carpels 3. Seeds usually large, testa bony. 



An erect shrub. Leaves pinnate 1. Decaisnea. 



imoing shmbs Leaves digitate. Stamens monadelphous . . 2. Parvatia. 

 otamens tree . , ^ ^ 3. Holbcellia. 



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^BE II. Berbereae. Stem or erect. Floivers hermaphrodite. Carpel 

 ^^'^'^^ usually small. 



^jes erect, basal. Shrubs. Fruit berried ....... 4. Berbeiub. 



■e? superposed along the ventral suture. 

 - ^^aves Uecompound. Ovules few .... 5. Epimedium. 

 ....■^a^es simple, palmate. Ovules many '.'.'. 6- Podoi-hylluii. 



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Flowers 



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leaflets o*^.*s, ^^-f- <^ T. in Proc. Linn. Soc. 1854, ii. 349 ; FlUd.JU ; 

 ^'- 1 10 %^^*? ^^''^te <^r ovate-lanceolate long acuminate. JJook./. HI. um. 

 forest f^^"^ insignis. Griff. Itin. Not. 187. 



i,f « ^f the Eastern Himalaya, alt. 6-10,000 ft. ; in Bhotan, Griffith, and Sikkim, 



^2,T^i\ T"*' '^'°Pl«. o'- ^••l^ed. Leaves 2-3 ft., subterminaj' on the lew sliort 

 '• ^«a/iet8 6^ pair, 3-5 by lJ-3 in., thin, glaucous beneafli; petiole 4-^ in. 





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