220 flora indica. [Berberidea . 



Sikkimens. et Kumaonens. laiiora, deuique Khasianis et mont. peninsulas fere globo- 

 sis. Semina 2-4. 



We have no hesitation in uniting the Peninsular and Khasia with the Himalayan 

 species, notwithstanding the difference in the shape of the berries and leaflets be- 

 tween the extreme states of each. Dr. Wight informs us that he has cultivated the 

 Himalayan one side by side in his garden with that of the Nilghiri, and finds them to 

 be undistinguishable. Specimens of the Sikkim plant, cultivated for a good many 

 years at Dorjiling, acquired longer racemes, larger flowers, and more slender pedicels 

 than the wild specimens in the adjacent woods. The bracts are very variable organs. 



Sect. 2. Folia siraplicia (nempe unifoliolata). 

 § 1. Flores racemosi v. subcorymbosi (interdum in B. Asiatica fas- 



vulgaris 



o 



mmusve aeciauis, racerais eion- 

 gatis v. abbreviatis 11011 umbellatis, petalis subintegris, baccis stigma te 

 sessili discoideo coronatis. 



a. normalis ; ramulis teretibus, foliis gracile petiolatis amplis mem- 

 branaceis argute serratis oblongis lanceolatis obovatisve acutis v. spice 

 rotundatis, racemis foliis longioribus pendidis simplicibus non glaucis, 

 floribus majuseulis, baccis ovato-oblongis rubris compressis, stigmate 

 subsessili, seminibus 2-5. — B. vulgaris, Linn. Sp. 472; DC. Prodr. i. 

 105 ; Led. Fl. Ross. 79 ; Thunb. Fl. Jap. i. 146 ; Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, 

 t. 18. B. Altaica et B. Dahurica, Hort. {fid. Herb. LindL). 



13. cratcegina; foliis magis coriaceis rigidis et persistentibus 1-2^- 

 uncialibus integerrimis v. spinuloso-serratis, racemis elongatis, baccis 

 oblongis subsphsericisve. — B. crataegina, DC. Syst. ii. 9, Prodr. i. 106. 



mild. i. 395 ; DC. Prodr. i. 105. B. Canadensis, Mill. 

 Diet. n. 2 ; DC. Prodr. i. 106; Torrey et Gray, Fl. Bar. Am. i. 50. B. 

 spliserocarna, Kar. et Kir.! En. PI. FL Alt. n. 46 : .Led. FL JZtow. i. 742. 



Nov 



Xarel 



JEtnensis 



liis 1— l-g-uncialibus obovatis obtusis mucronatisve rarius lanceolatis 

 grosse v. crebre spinuloso-serratis rarius integerrimis subcoriaceis ner- 

 vis prominulis opacis nitidisve, racemis suberectis v. nutantibus foliis 

 paullo longioribus. — B. vulgaris, var. macroacantha, Gussone, Fl. Prod. 

 Flor. Sic. i. 426. B. ^Etnensis, Presl, Flor. Sic. i. 28 ; R. et S. vii. 2 ; 

 Moris, FL Sardoa, i. t. 5. B. Kunawarensis, Royle ? III. 64. 



8. brachybotrys ; ramulis robustis ssepius glaucis, foliis vix coria- 

 ceis |— 1^-uncialibus obovatis lanceolatisve aristatis spinuloso-serrulatis 

 integerrimis ve, racemis abbreviatis multifloris subcorymbosis. — B. bra- 

 chybotrys, Edgeicorth f in Linn. Soc. Tram. xx. 29. , 



. Cretica; fruticulus humilis v. prostratus, robustus, dense ramo- 

 sus, foliis parvulis ^-1-nncialibus rigide coriaceis angulatis spinuloso- 

 serratis v. lobatis obovatis cuneato-lanceolatisque margine incrassatis 

 nervis conspicuis, racemis elongatis abbreviatisve. — B. Cretica, Linn. Sp. 

 PL 472; Tkmb. FL Jap. i. 146; Sibth. FL Gr<ec. t. 342; DC. I.e. 

 B. vulgaris, var. australis, Boissier in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2. xvi. 371. 

 B. Thunbergii, DC. SysL ii, 9, Prodr. i. 106. 



