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petioles, re uiformi -orbicular, three, the lowennost five-lobed ; lobes cuneate, generally again three-lobed and incised or 
toothed ; upper ones nearly sessile, wedge-shaped, deeply three-lobed, and incised, the lobes linear- cuneate. Flowers 
one to six upon a stem, on hairy, terete peduncles. Calyx of five ovate-oblong spreading hairy herbaceous sepals. 
Corolla two inches broad, in cultivation, of five large, oblong, very glossy yellow spreading petals, with flabelliform, 
coloured 
Stamens numerous, surrounding an oblong head of young carpels, which eventually 
lengtliens into a narrow cylindi'ical spike. — Bot. Mag. t. 4585. 
301. Berbeuts TJMBELLATA. JFallick. (a/m B. uiigulosa ^;^J gracilis ^ 
A handsome 
liartly evergreen busli, with pale yellow flowers, appearing in I\lay, Native of the Himalayan 
mountains. (Fig. 181.) 
Dr. Wallich's collectors appear to have first discovered this plant in Kanmon and Gossain Than. For its 
introduction to our gardens we are indebted to the East India Company. It is a hardy bush, about 4 feet high, with a 
spreading manner of growth, pale brown, angular branches, slender 3-parted spines, and very narrow, bluish-green 
leaves, strikingly glaucous beneath ; on an average they are 1| inch long by | wide ; sometimes they are perfectly 
entire, in which state they are represented in the « Botanical Register ;" but they are more commonly furnished with a 
strong, marginal, spiny tooth or two, and sometimes with many. (Can this state be the B. cerafopTiTjUa of G. Don ?) 
The flowers are pale yellow, in drooping, narrow racemes, and are succeeded by an abundance of oblong, purplish fruits. 
The species is very pretty, in consequence of its graceful manner of growth. It is best suited for growing among rough 
places, such as heaps of rockwork, where its spreading way of branching can best be seen. It is not, however, a good 
evergreen, the leaves being too thin and pallid.— /oin-n. of ffoH, Soc, vol. v. 
