Tap. 78S3. 



BERBERIS DICTYOPHYLLA. 

 Native of Yunnan. 



Nat. Oi'd. Beiii5erii)E.t:. — Tribe Behberk.k, 

 Genus Berberis, Linn. ; {Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 43.) 



Berberis dictyophylla; frutex erectus, glaberrimus, ramis ramulisqae sub- 

 erectis giacilibus angulatis fuacis, spinia ^-f poll. longia validis fuRcis, 

 foliis ^-§ poll, longis in ramulos laterales brevissimos fasciculatia bre- 

 vissime petiolatia obovatia mucronatis parce spiauloso-serratia coriaceia 

 subtus glauco-viridibus demum albidis elevato-reticulatis, Horibns in 

 ramulos solitariis v. binis globosis ad | poll, diam., pedunculis filiia 

 brevioribus, sepalis exterioribus oblongo-obovatis interioribus orbiculatis, 

 petalis sepalia interioribus duplo minoribua obovatis apice emarginatis, 

 glandulis basilaribus magnis ellipsoideis liberis vel confluentibna, antheria 

 oblongis, baccis globoso-ellipsoideis rubris, stylo crasso stigmate magno. 



B. dictjophylla, Franch. Plant. Belav. p. 39, t. 11. 



Mr. Franchet riglitlj regarded B. dlctyophjlla as nearly 

 allied to the Himalayan B. angulosa. Wall., from which 

 it differs in the glabrous young shoots, much smaller 

 glabrous leaves, glaucous beneath, and with strongly 

 reticulate nervation, in the bicuspidate petals and larger 

 glands. B. didyophylla was discovered by the Abbe 

 Delavay at an elevation of three thousand feet on Fanyang 

 shan, a mountain above Mosoyn in Yunnan, in 1886, 

 flowering in May, and fruiting in October. The specimen 

 here figured was taken from a plant presented to the 

 Royal Gardens, Kew, by Messrs. Vilmorin, Andrieux & 

 Co., in 1897, which flowered in the Arboretum in May, 

 1901, and ripened its fruit in the following September. 

 Its flowers are smaller than in the native specimen 

 deso'ibed by Mr. Franchet, in which they are six-tenths of 

 an inch to seven-tenths of an inch in diameter. 



Descr. — An erect, glabrous bush, six feet high, with 

 sub-erect, angular, rather slender branches and branch- 

 lets covered with brown bark. Spines one half to two- 

 thirds of an inch long, strong, dark brown. Leaver in 

 small, uniform tufts, from the axils of eveiy spine along 

 the branchlets, shorter than the spines, sessile, obovate, 

 May 1st, ll»u-J. 



