Tas. 4846. 
BERBERIS Beater; var. planifolia. 
Mr. Beale’s Chinese Berberry ; flat-leaved var. 
Nat. Ord. BERBERIDEZ.—HEXxANDRIA MoNoGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4308.) 
BerBerts (Mahonia) Bealei ; foliis atro-virentibus subglaucis crasso-coriaceis ri- 
gidissimis, foliolis 4—5-jugis ovatis sinuatis grosse parce (5-6) ineequaliter 
spinoso-lobatis valde pungentibus infimis subrotundatis ad basin petioli 
stipuleeformibus terminali petiolato, racemis fasciculatis, petalis apice bifidis.. 
a.; foliis basi magis minusve cuneatis, sinuum marginibus reflexis. Berberis 
Bealei, Fort. in. Gard. Chron. 1850. p. 212. B. Japonica, Lindl. in FI. 
Gard. v. 1. p. 11 (with woodcut of a portion of a very large leaf, f. 2). 
Manonta Japonica. De Cand. Syst. Veget. 0. 2. p. 22? te . 
- Inex Japonica. Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 77? Le. Jap. t. 22? 
B. planifolia ; foliis subdeltoideis (basi transversim truncatis) crassissimis subim- 
bricatis, petiolis purpureis, floribus minoribus. (Tab. Nostr. 4846.) 
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We are indebted to Messrs. Standish and Noble for two very 
different-looking plants of Berberss, introduced by Mr. Fortune 
to this country from China, from a district considerably to the 
north of Shanghai; one marked 2. (Mahonia) Japonica and the 
other marked B. Bealei.*. By Dr. Lindley, Z. c., the two names 
are considered to belong to the same plant, “ Berberis Japonica, 
Lindl. (Ilex Japonica, Z%wnb.), alias B. Bealei, Fort.’ The o 
bearing the latter name resembles the plant so strangely refer 
by Thunberg to Jez, and we propose to give an early figure of 
* 
it, under the name however of B. Bealei, since we cannot satisfy — 
ourselves it is identical with Thunberg’s Japan species. The — 
other kind we received from Messrs. Standish and Noble, the — 
one here given, has points of difference which at first led me — 
to consider it as distinct; but I think it safest to record it only 
as a variety. Indeed we shall have occasion to show that 2B. — 
Japonica may be one of the many forms of B. Nepalensis, to — 
* Since the above was in type we have received a third hardy Chinese kind, 
B. intermedia, Stand. and Noble, and a fourth most remarkable species, B. tri- 
furca, Lindl, All are eminently beautiful plants, and we shall soon notice them 
more particularly. 
APRIL Ist, 1855. 
