BERBERIDACEAE. — BERBERIS 355 



Berberis yunnanensis Franchet in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, XXXIII. 

 388 (1886); PL Delavay. 38 (1889); Schneider in Bull. Herb. Boissier, 

 s6t 2, V. 397 (1905). 



Western Szech'uan: Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 2600-3000 m., 

 September 1908 (No. 1038; bush 1-3 m. tall, fruits salmon red); north- 

 east of Tachien-lu, forming thickets, alt. 3000-4000 m., July 6, 1908 

 (Nos. 2852, 2855; bush 1-4 m. tall, flowers yellow). 



See note under B. diaphana. 



A picture of this shrub will be found under No. 200 of the collection of Wilson's 

 photographs and also in his Vegetation of Western China, No. 130. 



Berberis Tischleri Schneider in Bull. Herb. Boissier, s6t. 2, VIII. 

 201 (1908). 



Frutex ad 2.5 m. altus, ut videtur habitu B. yunnanensis; ramulos 

 hornotinos non vidi, biennes vetustioresque cinerei, angulati, glabri, 

 vix divaricati; internodia 1.5-3 cm. longa; spinae 1-3-fidae, ramulorum 

 basim versus satis evolutae, mediocres ad 2.5 cm. longae, crassae, 

 fiavescentes, subtus sulcatae; folia ad 8 fasciculata, membranacea v. 

 chartacea, obovato-rotundata, obovato-oblonga v. oblonga, apice 

 rotunda v. obtusa, mucronulata, hinc inde fere emarginata, basim 

 versus subito in petiolum brevissimum v. ad 7 mm. longum contracta, 

 margine utrinque breviter spinuloso-serrata, raro Integra, supra 

 viridia, paullo nitentia, subtus pallida, pruinosa sed vix papillosa, 

 1.5: 0.8 cm. ad 4.5: 2 cm. (v. in No. 4134 ad 6: 2.2 cm.) magna, utroque 

 latere distincte sed satis laxe reticulata; inflorescentiae fasciculato- 

 racemosae, 4-15-florae, fructiferae ad 6 cm. (v. in No. 4134 ad 9 cm.) 

 longae; flores saepe ad basim et ad apicem pedunculi nudi satis elon- 

 gati pseudo-umbellati, lutei, mediocres (circiter 7-8 mm. diam.); 

 pedicelU variabiles, 1.5-2.5 (v. fere 3) cm. longi, basi bracteis linearibus 

 acuminatis ad 3 mm. longis suffulti; prophylla lanceolata; sepala 

 exteriora ovato-lanceolata, interiora late ovata, obtusa, petalis obo- 

 vato-oblongis, apice emarginatis, basi breve unguiculatis, glanduli- 

 feris paullo majora; stamina petalis breviora, apice breve apiculata; 

 ovaria ovulis (3-)4 sessilibus instructa; fructus in mense Octobri 

 collecti elliptico-oblongi, flavo-rubri, leviter pruinosi, opaci, apice in 

 stylum elongati, ad 10: 7 mm. magni; semina matura plerumque 2. 



Western Szech'uan: north of Tachien-lu, uplands, alt. 3000- 

 3300 m., July 1908 (No. 2853; bush 2-4 m. tall, flowers yellow); 

 in the neighborhood of Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 2G00-3300 m., June 

 1908 (No. 2854; bush 1-3 m. tall, flowers yellow); Tachien-lu, alt. 



