212 - WEXANDRIA, MONOGYNZA. 
filiformly bidentate; anthers (as in Berberis) 
growing to the filaments; cells opening by so 
many vertical elastic valves. Berry many- 
seeded. 
Suffruticose plants with pinnated leaves and terminal 
aggregated racemes; berries purple. 
Species. 1. M. Aguifolium. Leaves unequally pin- 
nate, about 3 pair, leaflets oblong-oval, acute, repandly 
and-mucronately toothed, veined, obliquely truncate at 
the base; petals bifid at the points. Berberis Aquifolium 
Pursh, Flor. Am. 1. p. 219.t.4. 0 =~ 
Oss. Surculose; stem suffruticose, 6 to 12 inches high; 
leaves = flowers terminal. Leaves eo shin- 
ing, dark green. Racemes aggregated, terminal, erect, 
whernedetih: pedicells brecteate at the base, sometimes 
_ with an additional bracte near the extremity. Calix 9- 
.- Jeaved, leaves in 3 serics, exterior bracteiform and small, 
the 3 interior longer than the corolla, nearly three times 
the length of the other calix leaves, cuneate-oval, obtuse 
and nerved. Petals connivent over the stamina, oblong- 
lanceolate, bifid at the point, destitute of the glands of 
Berberis, but nectariferous at the base. Stamina, fila- 
ments linear, flat, about the length of the anthers, with a 
short filiform process on either side of each, arising from 
the base of the anther; valves of the anthers erect, conspi- 
cuous; cells margined on one side, Style tione. Stigma 
entire, orbicular, flat, and umbibeate. Germ ovate, gib- 
bous or excentric, immature. seeds 9, or more, oblong- 
cylindric, attached to the base of the berry. Flowers swect- 
scented, coming out in May, (in Mr. MeMahon’s green- 
house.) Cultivated for several years by Mr. McMahon from 
seeds collected in the Rocky Mountains by the late gover- 
nour Lewis. 
2. nervosa. Leaflets 6 pair, ovate-oblong, repandly ser- 
rate, somewhat S-nerved, petals entire.— Berberis nervosa. 
Pursh, 1. p. 219. t. 5. 
A third species of this genus is indicated by Mr Pursh 
_as indigenous to the kingdom of Napaul in India; probably ~ 
in a Mountainous country. 
308. PRINOS, L. (Winter-berry.) 
Calia small, 6-cleft. Corolla monopetalous, 
—* 6-parted. Berry 6-seeded; seeds nu- 
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