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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- 

 liiidric. 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, ^\ith 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 ; iheex" 

 terior 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- 

 ons oblong. Radicle subcylindric, iuferiar. 



2. B. angusttfolia. R. 



Shrubby. Racemes simple; pedicels one-flowered. Spines 

 single. Leaves laiUcco\a.r. Gerwi two-seeded. 



Found by Francis Pie'rard, 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, \^ith a minute spinous 

 point, some of them have a small spinous tootlilet 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 

 in 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 two smaller ones near the top./w 



