[Prae 79.] 
THE NEPAL ASH-LEAVED BERBERRY. 
(BERBERIS NEPALENSIS.) 
A half-hardy Evergreen Shrub, with yellow flowers, belonging to BERBERIDS, from the East INDIES. 
Specific Character. 
THE NEPAL HOLLY-LEAVED BERBERRY. Leaves | BERBERIS NEPALENSIS; foliis  pinnatis, foliolis 
pinnated, leaflets in from two to five pairs, ovate, spiny- 2—5-jugis ovatis spinoso-dentatis cum impari petiolulato, 
1 ed, with the odd one on a long stalklet. Racemes racemis fasciculatis strictis densifloris inalibus, 
fascicled, upright, compactly flowered. Fruit oblong. fructu oblongo. 
Berberis pinnata : Roxb. fl. Indica, ii. 184. Mahonia nepalensis : De Cand. Prodr. i. 109. Berberis nepalensis : 
: Wallich Catalogue, no. 1480 ; Lindley in Hort. Soc. Journal, vol. v., p. 18. 
us beautiful specimen of one of the handsomest of the pinnated Berberries was produced in the 
Garden of the Horticultural Society in March last. It had been received from the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Kew. About the same time it blossomed in several other places, we believe for the 
first time in Europe. Tt is very near the North American B. g/umacea. : 
_ When grown in a conservatory the species is remarkable for the delicate light green of its 
foliage, which spreads gracefully from a stiff erect stem, something in the way of a miniature Palm. 
At first the plant produces its leaflets in threes; at a late period they grow in fives, and when in 
complete vigour they appear in about five pairs with an odd one. Each leaflet is very regularly 
furnished with large equal spiny teeth along the whole of its ovate or ovate-oblong outline. The 
flowers are of a rich bright yellow, forming close erect racemes clustered in the upper end of the 
shoots, and drooping gracefully. Their ovary is oblong. 
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