BERBERIDACEAE. — BERBERIS 369 



yellow, fruit coral-red); Tachicn-lu, thickets, alt. 2600-3000 m., 

 July and October 1908 (No. 1356, in part; flowers golden, fruit coral- 

 red); Wa-shan, alt. 2000 m., June 1908 (No. 1356, in part); near 

 Sungpan, Min valley, alt. 2000-3000 m., August 1910 (No. 4635; 

 bush 0.00-1 m. high, flowers yellow), roadsides, alt. 2400 m., August 

 1903 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 3147, 3154; shrub 0.25-1.25 m. tall). 



Pictures of this shrub will be found under Nos. 242 and 243 of the collection of 

 Wilson's photographs and also in his Vegetation of Western China, Nos. 131 and 132. 



Berberis subcaulialata Schneider in Fedde, Re-p. Nov. Sp. VI. 267 

 (1909). 



Western Szech'uan : Mupin, thickets, alt. 2000-2300 m., October 

 1908 (No. 1267; bush 0.60-1.30 m. high, fruit coral-red). 



Wilson's specimen exactly agrees with the type. 



Berberis thibetica Schneider in Fedde, Rep. Nov. Sp. II. 268 

 (1909); III. Handb. Lauhholzk. II. 920 (1912). 



Western Szech'uan : Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 3200-3400 m., 

 October 1910 (No. 4385; bush 1.5-2 m. tall, fruit red). Here belongs 

 possibly the following specimen: west of Tachien-lu, alt. 3300 m., 

 September 1908 (No. 1282; bush 1-2.60 m. tall, fruit sabnon-red). 



I am not quite sure whether No. 4385 really belongs to B. thibetica, which is 

 very similar in the shape of the leaves and in the inflorescence. Unfortunately 

 Wilson's specimen is imperfect and lacks very young branchlets. Of B. thibetica 

 I only have before me rather luxuriant cultivated flowering specimens and I have 

 seen but one fruit. The fruits of No. 4385 seem to be somewhat smaller, and some 

 of the leaves bear 1-4 short spines on each side towards the apex. 



Wilson's No. 1282 consists of old, gray, somewhat angulate, fruiting branches; 

 the inflorescences and fruit rather resemble those of No. 4385, but the leaves of 

 No. 1282 are more lanceolate, rather acute and distinctly spinose-dentate with 

 3-5 short pungent spines on each side. I cannot decide if this is only a variety of 

 B. thibetica or if it represents a distinct species. 



Berberis Boschanii Schneider, n. sp. 



Frutex 2-2.5 m. altus; ramuli annotini purpurascentes, divaricati, 

 angulati, glabri, subnitentes, vetustiores cinereo-brunnescentes v. 

 cinerascentes; internodia 1 cm. longa; spinae 1-3-fidae, flavo-brunneae, 

 mediae ad 2 cm. longae, subtus esulcatae. Folia (ramulorum fructi- 

 ferorum) ad 4 fasciculata, satis crasse membranacea, ovato-lanceolata 

 V. oblanceolata, apice subacuta, leviter mucronulata, basi in petiolum 

 1-2 cm. longum contracta, 0.6:0.3 ad 1.7:0.6 cm. magna, supra viridia, 

 vix V. pauUo nitentia, fere enervata, subtus concoloria, distinctius 

 nitentia, laxe sed satis indistincte nervata, margine integerrima. 



