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the long (10-12 em.) inflorescences which are said to be “ infra subpaniculatae." 
Such long inflorescences I know only in B. Feddeana Schneider. Not having before 
me Fedde’s type I cannot decide the question of its identity with any of the species 
known to me. Purdom's specimens are not quite identical with the typical B. 
dasystachya, especially the flowers of No. 5 are somewhat larger. The typical 
form is in cultivation in this Arboretum; the plants came from Vilmorin and the 
exact region where the seeds were collected is not known. 
Berberis Prattii (p. 376). This species is connected with B. aggregata Schneider 
by many intermediate forms according to the living plants in this Arboretum. I 
therefore reduce it to the following variety : 
BERBERIS AGGREGATA, var. PRATTII Schneider, n. var. 
B. brevipaniculata Bean, T'rees & Shrubs Gr. Brit. I. 236 (non Schneider) (1914). 
B. Geraldii Veitch, New Hardy Pl. China (Cat.), 1913, 7 (nomen nudum). 
Bean's plant is entirely different from B. brevipaniculata Schneider which is a 
Hupeh plant and not yet in cultivation. The cultivated form was introduced by 
Wilson in 1904 from near Tachien-lu, and it is growing in this Arboretum under No. 
1320 from Hort. Veitch. It is one of those intermediate forms, and very similar to 
the plant figured in Bot. Mag. CXL. t. 8549 (1914). Bean mentions, and it is also 
mentioned by Sprague in the Botanical Magazine, that the leaves of B. Prattii are 
pale green beneath and not glaucous, as in those of what he calls B. brevipani- 
culata. But according to my observations in this Arboretum these differences in 
the color of theleaves are apparently not constant and are due to local conditions 
or the individual behavior of the plants. 
There is also the following variety: 
BERBERIS AGGREGATA, Var. RECURVATA Schneider, n. comb. 
Berberis Prattii, var. recurvata Schneider (p. 377). 
As the cultivated plants in this Arboretum have not flowered, it is impossible to 
decide whether this is a good variety or a mere form. 
Berberis (p. 377). After B. Liechtensteinii insert the following numbers: 
BERBERIS spec. 
. Western Szech’uan: southeast of Tachien-lu, alt. 2500 m., 1910 (No. 4130; 
shrub 1-1.5 m., flowers yellow, fruits black; seeds only). 
BERBERIS spec. 
Western Szech’uan: west and near Wén-ch’uan Hsien, thickets, alt. 2300— 
2800 m., 1910 (No. 4153; bush 2-2.5 m. tall, fruits scarlet in cymose racemes). 
BERBERIS spec. 
Western Szech’uan: Sungpan, alt. 3000 m., 1910 (No. 4203; bush 3-4 m. 
tall, leaves b oadly obovate, fruits black in cymose racemes). : 
This and the preceding number are not available at present for determination, 
as they have been loaned to a European collection. C. 8. 
Mahonia 
Mahonia Zemanii (p. 378, 382). This name becomes a synonym of the older 
MARONIA CONFUSA Sprague in Kew Bull. Misc. Inf. 1912, 339; 1914, 232. — 
Tíurrill) in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1915, 128. 
Mahonia Fortunei Fedde in Bot. Jahrb. XXXI. 130, fig. 3 E (pro parte, non 
Mouillefert) (1901). 
