BERBERIDACEAE. — BERBERIS 377 
Western Szech’uan: south-east of Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 
2600-2800 m., June and October 1908 (Nos. 1261, type, 1300); 
Tachien-lu, uplands, alt. 2800-3400 m., October 1910 (No. 4173; 
bush 1.5-2 m. high, fruit salmon-red); Mupin, thickets, alt. 2000 m., 
October 1908 (No. 10503); without locality, 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 
31522). 
To this species also belongs Wilson's No. 1320 ex Hort. Veitch. In his B. 
polyantha, Hemsley has mixed two different species. The true B. polyantha is repre- 
sented by Pratt’s Nos. 206 and 704, but Pratt's No. 80 is quite different and belongs 
to this new species. Berberis polyantha has much thicker leaves with a very fine 
and narrow reticulation; the inflorescences are broader and looser, the bracts 
shorter and the elliptical dried fruits are swollen and bear a rather long style. 
Berberis Prattii seems also nearly related to B. brevipaniculata Schneider in 
Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, VIII. 263 (1908), which was collected by Henry, 
Ichang, May 1888 (No. 4675). But the last named species differs in its glabrous 
branches and inflorescences, its smaller leaves, which are distinctly glaucous and 
papillose beneath and in its shorter panicles and bracts. 
Berberis Prattii, var. recurvata Schneider, n. var. 
A typo recedit inflorescentiis spiciformibus pedicellis fructiferis 
distincte reflexis. ; 
Western Szech'uan: Mupin, thickets, alt. 2000-2500 m., June 
and October 1908 (No. 1073). 
I cannot find any other difference between this variety and the type, but the 
narrow inflorescences of the fruiting Specimen with the curved pedicels are re- 
markable. The shape of the rather small leaves is the same as it is in those of 
No. 1261 (B. Prattii typica). 
Sect. Incertae. 
Berberis Liechtensteinii Schneider, n. sp. 
Frutex 1-1.5 m. altus; ramuli annotini purpurascentes, glabri, 
lenticellis minimis crebris obtecti, angulato-striati v. subsulcati vetus- 
tiores cinerei; internodia 1-1.8 cm. longa; spinae 1-3-fidae, valde 
evolutae, mediae ad 4 cm. longae, rotundatae, subtus anguste sulcatae, 
purpurascentes; folia ad 3 (an plura?) fasciculata, crasse membranacea, 
decidua, lanceolata, ovata v. obovato-oblonga, sinuato-spinosa, 
Spinis utrinque 1-4, v. minora integra, tantum apice acuta, spinosa, 
basim versus sensim attenuata, vix v. non petiolata, ramulorum 
floriferorum 1:0.4 ad 2.5:1 cm., fructiferorum v. sterilium 2.5: 1.3 ad 
6:2.2 cm. magna, supra viridia, fere nitentia, hypodermate non in- 
structa, subtus pallidiora, in sicco praeter costam enervia v. nervis 
lateralibus vix visibilibus; inflorescentiae racemosae, pedicellis in- 
