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BERBERIS Wa .t.icHiAna. 
Dr. Wallich’s Berberry. 
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Nat. Ord. Berpertpe®.—Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4308.) 
Berserts Wallichiana; ramis angulatis, spinis tripartitis elongato-subulatis, 
foliis fasciculatis oblongo-lanceolatis rigidis glabris spinuloso-serratis, pedi- 
cellis axillaribus aggregatis unifloris folio brevioribus. 
Berperis Wallichiana. De Cand. Prodr. v.1. p.107. Wall. Plant. Asiat. Rar. 
v. 3. p. 23. t. 243. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 120. et cur. post. p. 138. 
Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 1. t. 104. Lindl. et Past. Fl. Gard. v. 1. p. 12. e 
p. 19. fig. 58. 
BerseEris atro-virens. Don, Gard. Dict. v. 1. p. 117. 
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Originally detected near the summit of the mountain Sheopur, 
Nepal, by Dr. Wallich, after whom the species 1s appropriately 
named by M. De Candolle. By Mr. Veitch it has been intro- 
duced to our Gardens, through his zealous collector, Mr. Thomas 
Lobb, and, about the same time, by Dr. Hooker from Eastern 
Himalaya. It is a most ready flowerer, producing blossoms i 
April, when not more than eight or ten inches high, in small 
pots ; but in its native country the plant attains a height of from 
six to eight or ten feet. As far as our experience goes, and that 
of Messrs. Veitch, this species may be expected to prove hardy, 
and thus add another interesting flowering shrub to our arboreta. 
The foliage a good deal resembles that of the Fuegian Bert. ili- 
cifolia, figured at our Tab. 4308 ; b inflorescence is very 
Say an : 
’ Descr. An upright-growing shrué, alive : 
taining a height ae ao a feet. Branches lon z and spiny. 
Spines three-quarters of an inch to an inch long, deeply tri- 
partite ; segments equal in length, slender but rigid, subulate. 
JULY Ist, 1852. 
