our Chinese plant, for Thunberg’s figure is very unsatisfactory), 
narrower and less pungent leaves, strongly veined. On referring 
to Mr. Bentham’s Herbarium however, we find a Japan speci- 
men (leaf only), gathered by Siebold in Japan, and this is clearly 
identical with B. Nepalensis/ and we certainly do find in some 
of our Jndian specimens, bere and there, leaves which exhibit 
the varied forms of leaflets, the same rigid coriaceous texture, — 
and very pungent spines seen in all our states of J. Bealev. 
There is no reason whatever for retaining the name of Japonica, 
in this instance so long buried and lost as it were in the genus 
Ilex; and, though a further acquaintance with the Japan and 
Chinese Berberries may show our Bealei to be a distinct species, 
the probability is that it will be found to merge into the well- 
known B. Nepalensis. I may here observe, too, that Messrs. 
Standish and Noble have sent me, from their Bagshot Nursery, 
another sort of Berberis from China, akin to the present, having 
longer leaves, concave on their upper surface, and more ap- 
proaching B. Vepyalensis : im no way, I think, really distinct from 
&. Bealei,—all highly ornamental, and, horticulturally speaking, 
different from each other. But, handsome as these are, they fall 
far short in beauty of Dr. Lindley’s B. ¢rifurca, Lindl. in Pax- 
ton’s Fl. Garden, p. 57, n. 525, where the woodcut of a portion 
of the leaf will give a better idea of the plant than any descrip- 
tion can do. The form of the leaflets is nearly oblong, the up- 
per half scarcely spiny, except in the three terminal spines, which 
point forward and have the intermediate of the three bent back : 
the venation is strong, the margins always refracted, the ultimate 
leaflet always sessile, the petiole and rachis dark purple. It 
has not yet flowered; but in its foliage it is the Prince of Ber- 
berries. 
Descr. Our description of the variety of B. Bealei given at 
Tab. 4846, and our respective figures, will indicate the characters 
of the two better than any laboured description. ‘The leaflets are 
here more undulated, the margin between the spines reflexed, and 
the base more or less cuneate : in our present plant the flowers are 
much larger, and much less numerous on the racemes. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal and stamen. 3. Pistil :—magnified. 
