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Berberis 
aristata 
Gt ARBORETUM NOTES. 
BERBE RMD rE. 
and the allied species, and I was for some time 
uncertain whether our plant belonged to aristata 
or to Astatica. I relied too much on Lindley, who - 
(in Fournal Horticultural Society, v. 5.) character- 
ized the Asiatica as having ‘‘ dark purple roundish 
‘‘ berries, covered with a rich bloom like a plum,” 
and the aristata—‘‘red, bloomless, oblong berries.”’ 
In relation to the fruit, our plant certainly agrees 
with the characters thus assigned to Berberis 
Asiatica, while the inflorescence and leaves are 
those of aristata. By comparison of our plant 
with the careful descriptions in Hooker and 
Thomson’s Flora Indica, I am satisfied that it 
belongs to Berberis aristata, and probably to the 
variety which has been called Berberis Chitria. 
The berries, according to J. D. Hooker and T. 
Thomson, are very variable in their characters. 
Still, in one point this agrees with the description 
of Berberis Asizatica in the Flora Indica; the bark 
of the stem and branches being very pale-coloured. 
The leaves of this plant, as cultivated here, are 
regularly deciduous, but remain very late on the 
bush,—in mild winters almost to the end of the 
year. The leaves, before they fall, change colour 
partially (not at all uniformly) to a fine red. They 
come out (the young ones) about the middle of 
April. When full grown, they are decidedly but 
not extremely coriaceous, bright green and glossy 
on both sides paler, but not at all glaucous 
