BERBERIDACEAE. — BERBERIS 369 
yellow, fruit coral-red); Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 2600-3000 m., 
July and October 1908 (No. 1356, in part; flowers golden, fruit coral- 
red); Wa-shan, alt. 2000 m., June 1908 (No. 1356, in part); near 
Sungpan, Min valley, alt. 2600-3000 m., August 1910 (No. 4635; 
bush 0.60-1 m. high, flowers yellow), roadsides, alt. 2400 m., August 
1903 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 3147, 3154; shrub 0.25-1.25 m. tall). 
Pictures of this shrub will be found under Nos. 242 and 243 of the collection of 
Wilson’s photographs and also in his Vegetation of Western China, Nos. 131 and 132. 
Berberis subcaulialata Schneider in Fedde, Rep. Nov. Sp. VI. 267 
(1909). 
Western Szech’uan: Mupin, thickets, alt. 2000-2300 m., October 
1908 (No. 1267; bush 0.60-1.30 m. high, fruit coral-red). 
Wilson’s specimen exactly agrees with the type. 
Berberis thibetica Schneider in Fedde, Rep. Nov. Sp. II. 268 
(1909); IU. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 920 (1912). 
Western Szech’uan: Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 3200-3400 m., 
October 1910 (No. 4385; bush 1.5-2 m. tall, fruit red). Here belongs 
possibly the following specimen: west of Tachien-lu, alt. 3300 m., 
September 1908 (No. 1282; bush 1-2.60 m. tall, fruit salmon-red). 
I am not quite sure whether No. 4385 really belongs to B. thibetica, which is 
very similar in the shape of the leaves and in the inflorescence. Unfortunately 
Wilson's specimen is imperfect and lacks very young branchlets. Of B. thibetica 
I only have before me rather luxuriant cultivated flowering specimens and I have 
seen but one fruit. The fruits of No. 4385 seem to be somewhat smaller, and some 
of the leaves bear 1—4 short spines on each side towards the apex. 
Wilson’s No. 1282 consists of old, gray, somewhat angulate, fruiting branches; 
the inflorescences and fruit rather resemble those of No. 4385, but the leaves of 
No. 1282 are more lanceolate, rather acute and distinctly spinose-dentate with 
3-5 short pungent spines on each side. I cannot decide if this is only a variety of 
B. thibetica or if it represents a distinct species. 
Berberis Boschanii Schneider, n. sp. 
Frutex 2-2.5 m. altus; ramuli annotini purpurascentes, divaricati, 
angulati, glabri, subnitentes, vetustiores cinereo-brunnescentes v. 
cinerascentes; internodia 1 cm. longa; spinae 1-3-fidae, flavo-brunneae, 
mediae ad 2 cm. longae, subtus esuleatae. Folia (ramulorum fructi- 
ferorum) ad 4 fasciculata, satis crasse membranacea, ovato-lanceolata 
v. oblanceolata, apice subacuta, leviter mucronulata, basi in petiolum 
1-2 em. longum contracta, 0.6:0.3 ad 1.7:0.6 em. magna, supra viridia, 
vix v. paullo nitentia, fere enervata, subtus concoloria, distinctius 
nitentia, laxe sed satis indistincte nervata, margine integerrima. 
