Tas. 4852. 
BERBERIS Beratet. 
Mr. Beale’s Chinese Berberry. 
Nat. Ord. BERBERIDEZ.—HEXANDRIA MonoGyYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4308.) 
Berserts (Mahonia) Bealei ; foliis crasso-coriaceis rigidissimis, foliolis 4-5 -jugis 
ovatis sinuatis parce (5-6) spinoso-dentatis valde pungentibus infimis sub- 
rotundatis ad basin petioli stipuleformibus terminali petiolato, racemis fas- 
ciculatis, petalis apice bifidis. - 
BerBeris Bealei. Fort. in Gard. Chron. 1850, p. 212. Hook. Bot. Mag. Tab. 
4845. Var. planifolia. 
BERBERIS Japonica. Lind. in Fl. Gard. v. 1. p. 11, with woodcut. 
Manonta Japonica? De Cand. : 
[Lex Japonica. Thunb. Jap. p. 79. Ic. t. 32. 
One remarkable state of this plant, as we believe it to be, has 
been figured by us at our Tab. 4846, under the name of B. 
Bealei, planifolia. Fortune discovered the one now figured, as 
related in the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ above quoted, in China, 
about 150 miles north of China, in the distriet of Hwuy-Chow. 
“The shrub was about eight fect high, much branched, and far 
surpassing in beauty all the known species of Mahonia.” “ Sir 
William Hooker,” he continues, “informs me that this may be 
the plant which Thunberg calls Zea Japonica, figured and de- 
scribed by Thunberg” (which Mr. Brown had long ago properly 
referred to Berderis), and I think so still, and Dr. Lindley has 
expressed the same opinion very confidently ; while, on the other 
hand, Mr. Don, in his ‘ Flora of Nepaul,’ and Drs. Hooker and 
Thomson, in their printed, but yet unpublished, ‘ Flora Indica, 
have unhesitatingly, without having seen authentic specimens, 
referred Thunberg’s plant to B. Nepalensis, Wall.; a species 
with very long leaves, bearing numerous pairs of leaflets, of a 
narrower form, more membranaceous texture (I am comparing 
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