Tas. 6578. 
BERBERIS sivensis. 
Native of Northern China. 
Nat. Ord. BERBERIDEZ.—Tribe BERBERER. 
Genus Berperis, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 43.) 
BERBERIs sinensis ; frutex erectus a basi ramosissimus, ramulis pendulis elongatis 
flagelliformibus, spinis 2-3-nisve, foliis fasciculatis coriaceis oblanceolatis 
spathulatisve acutis apiculatis v. obtusis integerrimis v. inferioribus parce 
spinuloso-dentatis, racemis longe pedunculatis multifloris pendulis, floribus parvis 
longe pedicellatis, sepalis 3 exterioribus minutis, baccis elongato-ellipsoideis 
utrinque obtusis rubris 1-2 spermis, stigmate parvo sessili. 
B. sinensis, Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. Ed. 1804, p. 150; DC. Syst. Pl. vol. ii. p. 8; 
Prodr. vol. i. p.106; Duhamel Arb. Ed, Michel. vol. iv. p. 13; Loudon, 
Arboretum, vol. i. p. 304, 
B. Chinensis, Poiret, Dict. vol. viii. p. 617. 
This is the most graceful of all the numerous species of 
Barbery cultivated at Kew, the branchlets from the base to 
the crown of the plants weeping and being loaded with 
blossoms in the spring. The flowers are, however, the 
smallest of the genus known to me, and the berries are 
smaller than those of B. vulgaris. I have examined native 
specimens collected in North China by Bunge, Pére David, 
and Mr. John Ross, which display an amount of variation 
only too common in all species of the genus; some of the 
Specimens having erect branches and pendulous racemes, 
and others shortly pedicellate flowers ; but all agree in the 
very small flowers and in the general shape of the foliage. 
A Caucasian plant received from the Herbarium of the 
Imperial Botanic Garden of St. Petersburg, and bearing 
this name, resembles it entirely in foliage, but the flowers 
are more umbellate towards the end of the raceme. In 
young plants the leaves are deeply regularly spinulose- 
Serrate. 
Berberis sinenis has been long cultivated in the Arboretum 
AUGUsT Ist, 1881. 
