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TEJirERATE IIiMAL.VYA, alt. 9-11,000 ft., from Kuniaon to Bhotan. 

 An erect straggling shrub, 8-10 ft.; branches Klender, rigid, leafy. Leavefj 1-2 lO-i 

 submeoibranous, green or glaucous beneath. Flowers like those of B. vulgaru. 



4, B. aristata, DC. Syst ii. 8; erect, leaves evergreen or nearly so, 



obovate or oblong entire or with few distant spinous teeth, flowers in com- 

 pound often corymbose racemes, berries tapering into a short style, stiguia 

 small subglobose. H.f. <£• T. FL Ind. 224. 



Temperate Himalaya, alt. 6-10,000 ft.; from Bhotan to Kunawar. Nilghiri Mts. 

 and Ceylon, alt. 6-7000 ft. 



As variable as B, i-ulgaris. -j 



Var. 1. ariatata, purple, leaves 1-3 in. broad obovate or oblong elliptic acute orawnea 



B. clutria, ham.; Don Prodr, 204; Bot Beg. t. 729. B. angustifolia, Boxh. Sort 



BcJig. 87. — Nipal to Sirmore. * 



War, 2, floribunda (.y/>. Wall mss. Cat. 1474); leaves smaller, flowers on long 

 peduncles, racemes snbsimple or subumbellate. B. petiolaris, Wall, under Cat. H' » 

 Don Si^st. Gard. I 115. B. affinis and ceratophvlla, Don Ic. B. coriaria, mie 

 ntHH,; lAndl in Bot. Beg. KS. xiv. t. 46. B. umbellata, Liyidl. I.e. 1844 t. 44 [notoj 

 Wall.). — Knmaon to Kunawar. • . 



Var. 3. mlcraiiiha ; leafy, leaves 1-3 in. very coriaceous ol)Ovate-lanceola^ 

 coarsely spinnlose-toothed, racemes long nodding, flowers small. Wall, Cat, 14< • 

 Bhotan to Garwhal. 



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5. B. Z-ycium, RoyU III 64; Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 94; bark^^Wj^ 

 leaves subsessile subpersistent lanceolate or narrow obovate-oblong ^^^^^ 

 quite entire pale not lacunose glaucous beneath, raceme elongate, bem» 

 ovoid, style conspicuous, stigma capitate. //./. <t T. Fl. Ind. 225. r 



Western Himalaya, in dry hot places; alt. 3-9000 ft., from Garwhal to Hazara.^ 

 An erect ripd shrub, 6-S ft. Leaves 1^-2^ by l-\ in., coriaceous, mucronate, ^^-^ 

 Bpinulose, bright green above, venation lax. Bacemes simple or compound, ^f" .^ 

 corvmbose, drooping, longer than the leaves. Berry violet. — Very distinct in ^ 

 ordinary state, but some forms appear to pass into B. aristata, and others into • 

 asiatica. . . ^ 



6. B. asiatica, Roxh. in DC. Syst. ii. 13; bark pale, spines f>-fid^"^4 

 leaves orbicular or broad obovate subentire or coarsely spinous **^H"^ 

 white beneath, racemes short corymbose, berries with a distinct style, stigj^ 

 capitate. liorb. FL Ind. ii. 182; Deless. Ic. Sel. ii. t. 1 ; Wall. Cat. H-- 

 {exd. syn, tinctorije). B. hypoleuca, Lindl. Journ, IIorL Soc. ii. 246. -; 



, Dry valleysfof the Himalaya, alt. 3-7500 ft.; from Bhotan to Garwhal. Behab, 

 Parasnath, alt. 3500 ft., Eilgeicorth, — Distkib. A%hanibtan. . l^ 



An erect stout branched buflh, 3-6 ft. Leaves 1-3 in., rarely acute, thickly ^^"''^^jjer 

 very strongly reticulate beneath. Bacemes peduncled or subsessile; flowers ^r»* 

 small, V?-I >n- diam. Berry red or black, glaucous, often large, eatable. 



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7. B. Wallichiana, DC. Prodr.t ioT ; leaves evergreen Tanceolat?' 

 bblong-lanceolate, flowers many in a fascicle, berry ovoid or oblong. ""^ ' 



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