224 flora indica. {Berberidece . 



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intended by Hamilton (fid. Penny Cyclopaedia) to have been applied to this plant. 

 Wallich's B. petiolaris, mss., has membranaceous leaves, and exactly resembles B. 

 umbellata, except in haviug a long style. 



y. micrantha. This retains its leaves in the moist forests of Sikkim throughout a 

 reat part of the year, and is probably perfectly evergreen in many places. In 

 Sikkim specimens the leaves are concolorous below, but they are glaucous in some of 

 Wallich's from Nipal, and in some of Griffith's Bhotan ones. One of AVallich's spe- 

 cimens entirely resembles the 'Botanical Register' plate of B. Chilria, except in the 

 smaller flowers, which are less corymbose. In some Sikkim specimens the leaves are 

 not an inch long, and are nearly entire ; in Nepal ones three inches long, and grossly 

 spinulose. Small states of this are not distinguishable except by the fruit from 

 var. Cretica of B. vulgaris, and others in all respects resemble forms of B. Lycium, 

 Royle. 



4. B. umbellata (Wall. Cat. sub 1475 !); ramulis gracilibus vir- 

 gatis, foliis pleruinque deciduis obovatis submerabranaceis varie spinu- 

 loso-serratis in petiolum angustatis subtus glaucis coneoloribusve, pedun- 

 culo elongato, floribus paucis longe pedicellatis pendulis sxibumbellatis, 

 baccis oblongis, stigmate subsessili discoideo. — Don, Syst. Gard. i. 116. 

 B. aristata, BoL Mag. t. 2549 ; Wall. Cat. 1474 ! ex parte. 



Hab. In Himalaya teraperata et subalpina, alt. 9-11,000 ped. : Bho- 

 tan, Griffith! Sikkim, in vallibus interioribus ! Nepal, Wall.! Kumaon 

 et Garhwal, Sir. et Wint.! — (PL vere.) (v. v.) 



Frutex virgatns, 8-10-pedalis, ramis gracilibus sparse foliosis. Folia |-2 unc. 

 longa, vix coriacea. Flores et fructus B. vulgaris, sed inflorescentia diversa. Bacca 



fusco-rubrae. 



Intermediate in many respects between B. vulgaris and B. aristata, and possibly 



oiily a variety of B. vulgaris. It is a slender-branched plant, 8-10 feet high, with 

 eattered obovate leaves, hardly glaucous and sparingly toothed. It is not un- 

 common in the interior valleys of Sikkim, where it perfectly resembles the B. vul- 

 garis in habit. 



"We have found it quite impossible to give any satisfactory references to Wallich's 

 Herbarium in the case of the species of Berberis. Specimens of this occur under 

 B. aristata and B. angulosa, and these names, together with those of B. umbellata 

 and B. petiolaris, have been used almost indiscriminately for the different forms of 

 the species we retain as B. aristata, umbellata, and angulosa, and have been distri- 

 buted with them to the Linnean Society's and other Herbaria. The 'Botanical 

 Magazine' plate of B. aristata (2549) weU represents Wallich's and our umbellata. 



5. B, Asiatica (Itoxb. in DC. Syst. ii. 13) ; cortice pallido, spinis 

 mediocribus parvisve foliis multoties brevioribus, foliis duris lacunoso- 

 reticulatis orbicularis obovatis obovato-lanceolatisve grosse sinuato- 

 spinosis integerrimisve subtus glaucis, pedicellis dense confertis v. in 

 racemum dispositis, ovario lagenseformi, stylo subelongato, baccis ovoi- 

 deis stylo distincto.— DC. Prodr. i. 107 ; Roxb. Flor. Lid. ii. 182 ; De- 

 less. Ic. Sel. ii. t. 1 ; Wall. Cat. 1477 ! (excl. syn. B. tinctorial). B. 

 hypoleuca, Lindl. Hort. Soc. Journ. ii. 246 ! cum ic. xyl. 



Hab. In Himalayse vallibus exterioribus siccis : Bhotan, Griffith! 

 Nipal, Wall! Kumaon et Garhwal, alt. 3-7500 ped.! Afghanistan, 

 Griff.! monte Parasnath prov. Bahar, alt. 3500 ped., Edgeworth ! 

 (¥\. Feb. Mar.) (». v.) < 



Frulex robust us, 3-6-pcdalis, e basi ramosus, ramis rigidis crassis srepius tor- 

 tuosis. Spina pro gcnere parvsc, 3-5 -cruras. Folia breve petiolata, subconfcrta, 



