BERBERIDACEAE. — BERBERIS 355 
Berberis yunnanensis Franchet in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, XXXIII. 
388 (1886); Pl. Delavay. 38 (1889); Schneider in Bull. Herb. Boissier, 
sér 2, V. 397 (1905). 
Western Szech’uan: Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 2600-3000 m., 
September 1908 (No. 1038; bush 1-3 m. tall, fruits salmon red) ; north- 
east of Tachien-lu, forming thickets, alt. 3000-4000 m., July 6, 1908 
(Nos. 2852, 2855; bush 1-4 m. tall, flowers yellow). 
See note under B. diaphana. 
A picture of this shrub will be found under No. 200 of the collection of Wilson's 
photographs and also in his Vegetation of Western China, No. 130. 
Berberis Tischleri Schneider in Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, VIII. 
201 (1908). 
Frutex ad 2.5 m. altus, ut videtur habitu B. yunnanensis; ramulos 
hornotinos non vidi, biennes vetustioresque cinerei, angulati, glabri, 
vix divaricati; internodia 1.5-3 cm. longa; spinae 1-3-fidae, ramulorum 
basim versus satis evolutae, mediocres ad 2.5 cm. longae, crassae, 
flavescentes, subtus suleatae; folia ad 8 fasciculata, membranacea v. 
chartacea, obovato-rotundata, obovato-oblonga v. oblonga, apice 
rotunda v. obtusa, mucronulata, hine inde fere emarginata, basim 
versus subito in petiolum brevissimum v. ad 7 mm. longum contracta, 
margine utrinque breviter spinuloso-serrata, raro integra, supra 
viridia, paullo nitentia, subtus pallida, pruinosa sed vix papillosa, 
1.5:0.8 em. ad 4.5: 2 em. (v. in No. 4134 ad 6: 2.2 cm.) magna, utroque 
latere distinete sed satis laxe reticulata; inflorescentiae fasciculato- 
racemosae, 4—15-florae, fructiferae ad 6 cm. (v. in No. 4134 ad 9 cm.) 
longae; flores saepe ad basim et ad apicem pedunculi nudi satis elon- 
gati pseudo-umbellati, lutei, mediocres (circiter 7-8 mm. diam.); 
pedicelli variabiles, 1.5-2.5 (v. fere 3) cm. longi, basi bracteis linearibus 
acuminatis ad 3 mm. longis suffulti; prophylla lanceolata; sepala 
exteriora ovato-lanceolata, interiora late ovata, obtusa, petalis obo- 
vato-oblongis, apice emarginatis, basi breve unguiculatis, glanduli- 
feris paullo majora; stamina petalis breviora, apice breve apiculata; 
ovaria ovulis (3-)4 sessilibus instructa; fructus in mense Octobri 
collecti elliptico-oblongi, flavo-rubri, leviter pruinosi, opaci, apice in 
stylum elongati, ad 10:7 mm. magni; semina matura plerumque 2. 
Western Szech’uan: north of Tachien-lu, uplands, alt. 3000- 
3300 m., July 1908 (No. 2853; bush 2-4 m. tall, flowers yellow); 
in the neighborhood of Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 2600-3300 m., June 
1908 (No.2854; bush 1-3 m. tall, flowers yellow); Tachien-lu, alt. 
