40 BERBER IDE.E. 



Berberis nepalensis SPRENGL ; HANCE " in .Toum. Bot. (1882) p. 2 "; 

 HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. I. p. 109; FORBES et HEMSL. Incl. Fl. Sin. I. p. 

 31 ; MATSUM. in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XII. p. 54; MAT/SUM, ot HAY ATA Fnnni. 

 PL Formos. p. 18 ; HAY ATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 18. 



Mahonia nepolensis IX'. Prodr. I. p. 109 ; PFELS Fl. Centr. Chin, in 

 FXOT, Bot, Jahrb. XXIX. p. 838. 



Berber is Beaki FORTUNE Bot. Mag. t. 4852. 



Ilex japcmica THUNB. Fl. Jap. p. 79, et lo. PI. Jap. t, 12. 



HAB. Gauzan, Arizan, Kelmig, Taiton. 



PISTRIB. Khasia, central China, Japan and tho Philippine islands. 

 Mr. F. IX Morrill remarks that this Formosan form is just tho same as tho 

 Ln/on ono. 



Berberis Kawakamii HAY ATA (PI. IX. i Materials for a Flora of 

 Formosa p. 24. Shrni) erect, many-branched, branches angulato silicate, 

 spines ternate 2-3 cm. long. Leaves clustered, coriaceous, obovate, oblanceolate 

 or lanceolate, acute, ounriiti- at tho base, nearly sossilo, remotely spinulosely 

 dentate, 5-3 cm. long, 2-1 cm. broad, veins impressed on the upper side, 

 but prominent on the under side, veinlets prominent on both sides, moiv 

 pallid beneath. Flowers 10-15-fasciculate, perulate at the base, pernles 2- 

 3-seriate, scaly broadly triangular shortly aristate, pedicels inclined, 1cm. 

 long. Sepals 5-6, ineqnal, lancoolate, acuminate or subulate, longer than 

 petals, the outermost the smallest. Petals .~>-b', ronndodly oblong, 4.] mm. 

 long, obtuse or rounded, with 2-glandnles at the base inside. Stamens 5-6, 

 2| mm. long, filaments 1} mm. long, incrassate, anthers 1 mm. long, oblong, 

 connectives slightly produced, truncate. Carpels shortly cylindrical 3 mm. 

 long, stigma sessile peltate. Berries 5-10-clustered, nigricaut, oblongly ovoid, 

 7 mm. long, obtuse at the base, 2-3-seeded ; seeds crescent-shaped, curved, 5 

 mm. long, minutely rnguloso fuscous, peduncles 1 cm. long. 



HAB. Mt, Morrison. 



The present plant comes very near B. larandana TIDAL; but differs 

 from it in having much shorter peduncles and especially in the number of 

 ovules contained in ovaries. B. barandana has 1-ovule, while our plant has 



