Tas. 7071. 
BERBERIS ancotosa. 
Native of the Himalaya, 
Nat. Ord. Bexsertoex.—Tribe BerBERER. 
Genus Berseris, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 43.) 
BERBERIs angulosa ; frutex erectus, ramulis erectis virgatis strictis puberulis, 
spinis 3-5-fidis, foliis deciduis 1-1}-pollicaribus obovatis oblanceolatisve 
marginibus incrassatis integerrimis v. distanter spinuloso-subserratis, 
apice rotundatis acutisve muticis v. aristulatis, floribus majusculis soli- 
tariis, pedicellis decurvis, sepalis extimis oblongis interioribus wquilongis 
sed multoties angustioribus, baccis magnis globoso-obovoideis rubris 5-7- 
Spermis, stigmate subsessili pulvinato. 
B. angulosa, Wall. Cat. 1475 ex parte. Hook. f. & Thoms. Fl. Indic., 227 ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i. p- 111. 
Berberis angulosa is a rare Himalayan species, and one 
of the largest flowered and fruited of the thirteen found 
in that mountain range; it is also one of the most distinct, 
though referred by Lindley to the racemose B. aristata, 
which he has by error published as B. umbellata, Wall. 
(Bot. Reg. 1844, t. 44). It was discovered early in the 
century by Mr. Blinkworth in Kumaon, and gathered later 
by Wallich in Nepal, and by myself in the adjacent pro- 
vince of Sikkim, at elevations of 11,000 to 13,000 feet. 
The only evidence of its occurring elsewhere in the 
Himalaya is the specimen here figured, which was sent in 
flower to Kew by Thomas Acton, Esq., of Kilmacurragh, 
Rathdrum, Ireland, in May 1888, and the fruit in October 
of the same year, with the information that it was raised 
from seed obtained from Cashmir by his brother, Colonel 
Ball Acton. In the Kew Herbarium there are specimens 
raisea from seed sent to the Edinburgh Botanical Garden 
by Mr. Gumbleton in 1885, and others sent to Kew by 
Mr. Gumbleton himself in 1887. 
In Sikkim B. angulosa forms a shrub four feet high and 
more, often accompanying the beautiful little B. concinna 
(Plate 4744). It grows at a greater elevation than any 
other of the larger shrubby species except B. macrosepala 
Aveust lst, 1889, 
