40 BEBBERIDE.T:. 



Berberis nepalensis SPHENG. ; HANCE " in Journ. Bot. (1882) p. 2 "; 

 HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. I. p. 109; For:m et HKMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. T. p. 

 31; MATSUM. in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XII. p. 54; MATS. et HAYATA Eimin. 

 PI. Fonnos. p. 18; HAYATA Fl. Mont. Forinos. p. 18. 



MaJiOina nepnlensis DO. Prodr. T. p. 109 ; DTF.LS Fl. Oentr. Chin, in 

 FATJL. Bot, Jalu-b. XXIX. p. 838. 



Berleris Beaki FoirrrxK l>ot. Mag. t, 485-2. 



Ilex japonica THUNB. Fl. Ja]>. p. 79, ct Tc. VI. J.-ip. t, 12. 



HAB. Claiixan, Arizan, Kolunj?, Taiton. 



DISTRIB. Kliasia, contra! China, Japan and tlio Philippine islands. 

 Mr. F. D. Morrill roinnvks tliat this Fovinosn.n form is just the saino as tin' 

 one. 



Berberis Kawakamii HAYATA {"PI. TX.i Matevi-ils for a Flora of 

 Formosa p. 24. Shrnl) oroct, many-branched, branches angulate snlcaic, 

 spines ternate 2-3 cm. lonj?. Leaves clustered, coriaceous, obovate, oblanceolate 



or lanceolate, acute, cnneate at the base, nearly sessile, remotely spinnlosely 

 dentate, 5-3 cm. long;, 2-1 cm. bro.id, veins impressed on the upper side, 

 but prominent on the under side, veinlets prominent on loth sides, more 

 pallid l>eneatli. Flowers 10- 15 -fasciculate, perulate at the base, pernles 2- 

 3-seriate, scaly broadly triangular shortly aristnte, ]iedicels inclined, 1 cm. 

 lonjr. .Sepals 5-0, inequal, lanceolate, acuminate or subulate, louder than 

 petals, the outermost the smallest. Petals 5-0, roundeilly oblong, 4.1 mm. 

 long, obtuse or rounded, with 2-glandnles at the base inside. Stamens 5-fi, 

 2] mm. long, filaments 1} mm. long, incrassate, anthers 1 mm. long, oblong, 

 connectives slightly produced, truncate. Carpels shortly cylindrical 3mm. 

 long, stigma sessile peltate. Berries 5-10-clustered, iiigricant, oblongly ovoid, 

 7 mm. long, obtuse at the base, 2-3-seeded ; seeds crescent -shaped, curved, 5 

 mm. long, "minutely rngulose fuscous, peduncles 1 cm. long. 



HAB. Mi Morrison. 



The present plant comes very neav 7A barantlana A'FDAT, ; but differs 

 from it in having much shorter peduncles and especially in the number of 

 ovules contained in ovaries. /?. lamndana has 1-ovnle, while our plant lias 



