BERBERIDACEAE. — BERBERIS 357 
Sect. WALLICHIANAE Schneider. 
Berberis candidula Schneider in Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. XIV. 
115 (1905); in Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, VIII. 196 (1908). 
B. Wallichiana, var. pallida Bois in Vilmorin & Bois, Frut. Vilmorin. 15 (non 
Hooker f. & Thomson) (1905). 
B. Hookeri, var. candidula Schneider, Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. I. 303 (1904). 
Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, alt. 2200 m., May 17, 1907 (No. 
2880; prostrate or nearly so, 15—45 cm. tall, on rocks). 
Berberis verruculosa Hemsley & Wilson in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 
1906, 151. — Schneider in Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, VIII. 195 
(1908). 
Western Szech'uan: Mupin, thickets and rocky places, alt. 
2600-3200 m., July and October 1908 (No. 1083, in part; evergreen 
shrub, 0.30-1 m. high, flowers yellow, fruit violet-black); Chiu-ting- 
shan, rocky places, alt. 1300-2000 m., May 24, 1908 (No. 1083, in 
part; bush 0.30-1 m., flowers yellow); Tachien-lu, rocky places in 
woods, alt. 3800-4100 m., October 1910 (No. 4381; shrub 0.25-0.35 m. 
tall, flowers yellow, fruit black); without precise locality, July 1903 
(Veitch Exped. Nos. 3150, 3150*; bush 0.60-1.30 m. high). 
Berberis Asmyana Schneider, n. sp. 
Frutex metralis v. paullo ultra; ramuli annotini striato-sulcati, 
sparse et unconspicue verrueulosi, glabri, cinerei v. flavo-cinerei, 
internodiis 1-2 em. longis; spinae 3-fidae, graciles, fere teretes, 1— 
1.5 em. longae, rarius breviores. Folia subcoriacea, 4-6-fasciculata, 
obovato-elliptiea v. obovato-oblonga, acuta et spinoso-mucronata, 
basi euneata in petiolum brevissimum attenuata, margine leviter 
revoluta, supra medium remote spinoso-serrata dentibus subaccum- 
bentibus utrinque 1-3 parvis fere ad mucronum spinosum reductis, 
1.5-3 em. longa et 7-9 mm. lata, supra nitentia, viridia, subtus pallide 
viridia, nervis utrinsecus 4-5 subtus vix visibilibus. Flores solitarii, 
rarius 2-3 fasciculati, circiter 1 em. diam., flavi extus rubescentes, 
graciliter pedicellati pedicellis 2-2.5 cm. longis; prophylla ovata 
acutiuscula, sepala exteriora late ovata interioribus rotundo-ovalibus 
breviora, petala sepalis interioribus subaequilonga, obovata, apice 
leviter emarginata, basi breviter lateque unguiculata, glandulis 
circiter 1.25 mm.l ongis approximatis instructa; stamina filamentis 
sub anthera interdum leviter dentatis; ovarium oblongo-ovoideum, 
