Tas. §781. 
BERBERIS BEAnIANA. 
Szechuan. 
BERBERIDACEAE. Tribe BERBEREAE. 
Berseris, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 43. 
Berberis Beaniana, Schneider in Sargent, Plant. Wils. vol. iii. p. 439 ; species 
inter congeneres fructibus purpureis insignis vix arcte cum quaquam aliarum 
specierum conveniens. 
Frutexr erecta, densiuscula, 2-3-metralis; novelli brunneo-rubescentes, glabri, 
obsolete angulati, spinis gracilibus 3-fidis subtus canaliculatis 1°2-2°5 cm. 
longis armati; nodi inter se 2°5-4cm. remoti. Folia decidua, ang in 
fasciculos 5-8-folios aggregata, elliptico-lanceolata, acuta in apiculum pun- 
gentem abeuntia, basi cuneata, margine nunc integra nunc dentibus 
utrinsecus 2-12 serrata, supra intense viridia, subtus glaucescentia, 2-5 cm. 
longa, 8-12 mm. lata. Florzs intense lutei, 6 mm. lati, ineunte aestate in 
paniculas axillares corymbosas 10-20-flores, 4-5 cm. longas dispositi; 
pedicelli graciles, glabri, 6-15 mm. longi. Sepala 9, exteriora 3 ovata, - 
minuta, interiora 6 maiora, plus minusve rotundata, cucullata, 4 mm. longa. 
Petala 6, obovata, apice marginata. Stamina 6, petalis breviora. Ovariwnt 
oblongo-ellipticum, stigmate sessile rotundato coronatum. Fructus 
ovoideo-ellipsoideus, 9 mm. longus, laete purpureus, pruinosus. Semina 2, 
4 mm. longa, ovoidea, compressa.—W. J. BEAN. 
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The handsome Berberis here described and figured was 
purchased for the Kew Collection from Messrs. J. Veitch 
and Sons, Coombe Wood, in 1913. It had been raised 
from seed collected for the firm by Mr. E. H. Wilson in 
Western Szechuan, China, in 1904, and may be grown 
in various gardens under Wilson’s seed-number, 1930. 
The Kew examples flowered for the first time in June, 
1914, and developed an abundant crop of its richly 
coloured fruits in the autumn of that year. Since then 
the plants have flowered and fruited freely, and now 
form bushes six to eight feet high. Being without a 
name, flowering and fruiting material of the species was 
sent to the Arnold Aboretum, where it has been examined 
by Dr. Schneider, who has described it as a new species, 
observing when so doing that “this is a very distinct 
species of which the taxonomic position is yet unknown. 
* Ocroper-Decemper, 1918, 2 
