PRONIA. BERBERIDACE. 27 
BERBERIS. ; 
cated, persistent. Petals 5-10 or more, situated with the sta- 
mens on the fleshy perigynous disk that is adnate to the sepals 
or concave receptacle. Stamens numerous. Carpels few be- 
coming coriaceous many-seeded follicles. Style short or none. 
Seeds anatropous, oyal or oblong, naked at base or the very 
short fleshy funiculus cupulate; embryo straight or slightly 
arcuate. 
P. Brownii Doug. in Hook. Fl. i, 27. Glabrous and glaucous, stems 
ascending or at length decumbent, 1-2 feet long: leaves thick, leaf- 
lets ternately dissected into oblong or linear lobes; sepals green, mostly 
unequal: petals scarcely larger than the sepals, thick and leathery, dark 
dull red: follicles oblong, an inch or more long: seeds round or oblong 2 
lines in diameter, black and shining. ° Stony hillsides, Brit. Columbia 
to California. 
Orver II]. BERBERIDACEZ Endl. Gen. 851. 
Herbs er shrubs with compound or divided leaves without 
stipules and perfect, hypogynous flowers. Bracts sepals petals 
and stamens 6 eavh (sepals and petals wanting, and stamens 9 
or more in Achlys): Anthers 2-celled opening by uplifted 
valves that are hiiged at the top. Calyx and corolla imbricated 
in the bud, deciduous, both usually colored Pistil 1, of a 
single carpel. Style short or none. Seeds anatropous, with 
small oy minute embryo in firm-fleshy or horny albumen. 
*, Flowers complete: stamens 6, mostly short. 
1 Berberis. Shrubs with rigid oddpinnate leaves; flowers yellow, in 
- clustered racemes: fruit a few-seeded berry. 
2 Vancouveria. Herbs with ternately compound leaves: flowers white or 
yellow in a panicle: fruit a follicle. 
*-* Flowers without sepals or petals: stamens 9 or more. 
3.. Achlys. Flowers spicate on a scape, without bracts, sepals or petals. 
Herbs with 3-parted leaves. 
1 BERBERIS, Tourn. Inst. 614, t. 385, L. Gen. n. 442. 
Smooth shrubs with yellow wood, pinnate leaves, yellow flow- 
ers in clustered bracketed racemes, and oblong or globose, acid, 
dark blue berries. Sepals 6, petal-like, with 6 closely appressed 
bractlets in 2 rows. Petals 6, opposite the sepals, usually 2-gland- 
ular at base. Stamens 6, opposite the petals. Stigma peltate. 
Fruit a 1-celled berry, with 1-3 seeds. Ours all of 
§ Manonra T. & G. FI. i, 50. Leaves evergreen, all evolute, 
(none reduced to spines) and 3- toseveral-foliolate ; petioles artic- 
ulated at the insertion of the leaflets: leaflets thick, coriaceous. 
spiny-toothed: filaments usually 2-toothed at the summit. 
* Leaflets pinnately veined. 
B. pumila Greene Pitt. ii, 162. A few inches to a foot high, stout and 
rigid, erect from the base: leaves very thick-coriaceous: leaflets 1-5, the 
terminal one round-ovate, the lateral ones obliquely ovate, all coarsely 
toothed, the teeth rigidly spinescent, conspicuously reticulate-veined on 
both faces, pale and glaucous beneath, deep but dull green and glauces- 
