Tab. 8701. 
BERBERIS Sraprrana. 
China. 
BERBERIDACEAE. Tribe BERBERIDEAR. 
Berseris, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 48. 
Berberis (§ Sinenses) Stapfiana, C. K. Schneider in Kew Bull. 1912, p. 35; 
Bean, Trees & Shrubs, vol. i. p. 249 (1914); affinis B. subcaulialatae, 
C. K. Schneider, et B. Wilsonae, Hemsl., sed ramulis minute pustulatis 
vel laevibus, baccis ellipsoideis haud globosis differt. 
Frutex deciduus vel subsempervirens, glaber; rami fusco-purpurascentes, 
_ minute pustulati vel laeves, costati ; spinae e basi tripartitae, graciles, 
acutissimae, fusco-stramineae, infra conspicue canaliculatae, 1°5-1-8 em. 
longae, lateralibus e medio sub angulo 90° divergentibus. Folia ad 
4-8-fasciculata, lineari-oblanceolata, apice plerumque acute mucronata, 
basi in petiolum brevem attenuata, integra vel rarius 2-8-dentata, 1°2-8 cm. 
longa, 3-5 mm. lata, rigide chartacea, utrinque praesertim in pagina 
,Superiore conspicue reticulata, supra viridia, infra paullo pruinosa et 
papillosa, Injflorescentiae brevissime fasciculato-racemosae, foliis multo 
breviores, 4—7-florae ; pedicelli pruinosi, 2°5-4 mm. longi, basi bracteis late 
ovatis acutis coriaceis circiter 1°5 mm. longis instructi. Flores flavi, 
depresso-globosi, 6-7 mm. diametro. Sepala exteriora ovato-orbicularia, 
apice rotundata, 1°25-1°75 mm. longa, intériora orbicularia, 8-4 mm. 
diametro, 6-nervia. Petala obovata, 8 mm. longa, 1°5-1-75 mm. lata, 
basin versus angustata et biglandulosa. Stamina petalis breviora, con- 
nectivo producto subobtuso. Ovarium staminibus aequilongum, stigmate 
fere plano orbiculare coronatum. Fructus late ellipsoideus, kermesinus, 
leviter pruinosus, stigmate persistente breviter stipitato nigrescente incluso 
circiter 8 mm. longus.—J. Hutcuinson. 
The Barbery here described is one of a group of Chinese 
forms with dull foliage, among which Berberis Wilsonae, 
Hemsl., figured at t. 8414 of this work may be regarded 
as the type, but which includes also the very closely 
allied B. subcaulialata, C. K. Schneider. The species 
now figured was originally described by Dr. Schneider as 
B. Stapfiana from a plant in the Barbery collection at 
Kew, which had been presented by Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin 
in 1910 under the name B. subcaulialata, from which it 
_ differs in the characters pointed out by Mr. Hutchinson. 
The plant from which our illustration has been prepared: 
1s not, however, the original type of B. Stapfiana, but 
Marca, 1917, . 
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