- Berberis. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 183 
er, and nearly as long as the petals. Petals six, in two 
series, round-obovate ; exterior margins a little notched 
and curled in over the anthers. Nectarial glands subcy- 
lindric. Filaments shorter than the petals, and opposite 
to them, thick at top. Anthers a polleniferous, oblong, 
operculated pit on each side near the apex. Germ oblong, 
one-celled, on the inside is a ridge; four, five, or six seeds 
_ are attached to its base. Style scarcely any. Stigma 
large, peltate, with a pit in the centre, Berries ovate, 
rather larger than the common berbery of Europe, 
smooth, with red, succulent, acid pulp; colour a dark 
purple, with a bloom over it, like that of the common 
plum, one-celled. Seeds two or three, attached as in the 
germ, oblong, somewhat rugose. Integuments two ; the ex- 
tertor one thick, spongy, and brown; the inner one mem- 
branaceous. Perisperm conform to the seed, yellow. Cha- 
laza large and conspicuous on its apex.- Embryo nearly 
as long as the perisperm, straw-coloured, erect. Cotyled- 
' os oblong. Radicle subcylindric, inferior. 
2. B. angustifolia. R. 
Shrubby. Racemes simple; pedicels one-flowered. Spines 
Single. Leaves lanceolar. Germ two-seeded. 
Found by Francis Picrard, Esq. on the mountains north 
of Rohilkhund, and Hurdwar. 
Spines oftener single than triple, straight, diverging. 
Leaves fascicled in the axills of the spines, sessile, lanceo-— 
lar, rather rounded at the apex, with a minute spinous 
Point, some of them have a small spinous toothlet on one 
or both margins, but are otherwise entire, tapering most 
toward the base ; smooth, veined, texture hard, the length 
from one to two inches, and generally less than half an inch 
‘breadth, Racemes axillary, the length of the leaves, so- 
litary. Flowers solitary, long-pedicelled, small. Bractes 
oblong, concave, acute, solitary at the base of each pedi-— 
Cel, and sometimes one or twosmaller ones near the top.Jn _ 
