BERBERIDACEAE. — BERBERIS 357 



Sect. WALLICHIANAE Schneider. 



Berberis candidula Schneider in Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. XIV. 

 115 (1905); in Bull Herb. Boissier, s6t. 2, VIIL 196 (1908). 



B. Wallichiana, var. pallida Bois in Vilmorin & Bois, Frut. Vilmorin. 15 (non 



Hooker f. & Thomson) (1905). 

 B. Hookeri, var. candidula Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. I. 303 (1904). 



Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, alt. 2300 m., May 17, 1907 (No. 

 2880; prostrate or nearly so, 15-45 cm. tall, on rocks). 



Berberis vemiculosa Hemsley & Wilson in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 

 1906, 151. — Schneider in Bull. Herb. Boissier, sdr. 2, VIII. 195 

 (1908). 



Western Szech'uan: Mupin, thickets and rocky places, alt. 

 2600-3200 m., July and October 1908 (No. 1083, in part; evergreen 

 shrub, 0.30-1 m. high, flowers yellow, fruit violet-black); Chiu-ting- 

 shan, rocky places, alt. 1300-2000 m., May 24, 1908 (No. 1083, in 

 part; bush 0.30-1 m., flowers yellow); Tachien-lu, rocky places in 

 woods, alt. 3800-4100 m., October 1910 (No. 4381; shrub 0.25-0.35 m. 

 tall, flowers yellow, fruit black); without precise locality, July 1903 

 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 3150, 3150''; bush 0.60-1.30 m. high). 



Berberis Asmyana Schneider, n. sp. 



Frutex metralis v. paullo ultra; ramuli annotini striato-sulcati, 

 sparse et unconspicue verruculosi, glabri, cinerei v. flavo-cinerei, 

 internodiis 1-2 cm. longis; spinae 3-fidae, graciles, fere teretes, 1- 

 1.5 cm. longae, rarius breviores. Folia subcoriacea, 4-6-fasciculata, 

 obovato-elliptica v. obovato-oblonga, acuta et spinoso-mucronata, 

 basi cuneata in petiolum brevissimum attenuata, margine leviter 

 revoluta, supra medium remote spinoso-serrata dentibus subaccum- 

 bentibus utrinque 1-3 parvis fere ad mucronum spinosum reductis, 

 1.5-3 cm. longa et 7-9 mm. lata, supra nitentia, viridia, subtus pallide 

 viridia, nervis utrinsecus 4-5 subtus vix visibihbus. Flores solitarii, 

 rarius 2-3 fasciculati, circiter 1 cm. diam., flavi extus rubescentes, 

 gracihter pedicellati pedicellis 2-2,5 cm. longis; prophylla ovata 

 acutiuscula, sepala exteriora late ovata interioribus rotundo-ovalibus 

 breviora, petala sepalis interioribus subacquilonga, obovata, apice 

 leviter emarginata, basi breviter lateque unguiculata, glanduhs 

 circiter 1.25 mm.l ongis approximatis instructa; stamina filamentis 

 sub anthera interdum leviter dentatis; ovarium oblongo-ovoideum, 



