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Schneider (see below). Of the typical B. yunnanensis Franchet may be mentioned 

 the following specimens : 



Yunnan: "Tali Range, alt. 9-10000 ft., June^July 1906," G. Forrest (No. 

 4344); "in dumetis ad pedem montium niveorum prope Lichiang, alt. circiter 

 3000 m.," October 1914, C. Schneider (No. 2860); " in declivibus montium prope 

 Lichiang versus Ta ku, alt. circiter 3400 m.," August 27, 1914, C. Schneider (No. 

 3343). 



Berberis Tischleri (p. 355). Besides the specimens from western Szech'uan 

 mentioned under B. yunnanensis Franchet, add the following specimens: 



Western Szech'uan: west of Kuan Hsien, Pan-lan-shan, woodlands, alt. 

 3300-3600 m., 1910 (No. 4313; bush 2 m. tall, fruits ovoid, solitary; seeds only); 

 Tachien-lu, 1904 (Veitch Exped. Seed No. 1719; bush 6 ft.; fruits paniculate, 

 salmon; Seed No. 1731; fruits solitary, scarlet). 



There is before me a specimen collected by E. Faber on Mt. Omei (No. 229), the 

 leaves of which resemble, as I mentioned in Bull. Herb. Boiss. s4r. 2, VIII. 201 

 (1908), those of B. -pollens Franchet. The ovaries contain 6 ovules, of which two 

 are more or less stalked. It belongs to the affinity of B. Tischleri or B. diaphana 

 and may represent a new species. 



Berberis Ambrozyana (p. 356). See my remarks above under B. dictyophylla, 

 var. epruinosa Schneider. In the note under this species I mentioned the follow- 

 ing species: 



Berberis parvifolia Sprague in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1908, 445. 

 The type of this species is Wilson's No. 3154* Veitch Exped. which probably 

 had been collected in 1904 in the valley of the Min River in western Szech'uan. 

 Here belongs probably also Veitch Exped. Seed No. 1682 from the same region. 

 In his note to B. Wilsonae Hemsley in Bot. Mag. CXXXVIII. t. 8414 (1912) 

 W. J. Bean says that B. parvifolia " has been in cultivation at Kew since 1896, 

 when seeds were received from St. Petersburg." According to this statement seeds 

 of this species must have been collected by Potanin or Przewalski in western 

 Kansu, but there seems to be no herbarium specimen of it in Petrograd. But there 

 are living jjlants in this Arboretum raised from seeds collected by W. Purdom 

 (No. 826) in western Kansu: " Chone and Touchow district, alt. 8-9000', April 

 25, 1912, shrub 23^ ft." The plants in the Arboretum have not yet flowered, but 

 others sent from here to the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco have flowered and 

 I have before me branches of them with young fruits collected in August 1916. 

 Purdom's plant well agrees with a fragment of the type kindly sent to this Arbo- 

 retum by the Keeper of the Kew Herbarium. The inflorescence of this i < more or 

 less compound and is even more so in the specimens from San Francisco. They are 

 almost identical with those of the typical B. aggregata Schneider, the flowers being 

 only less numerous (1-5 in the type, up to 12 in Purdom's plants). The fruits are 

 very much hke those of B. aggregata, but the leaves are smaller. The largest I 

 have seen are up to 2 cm. long and 1 cm. wide, obovate-oblong, with a s])inose 

 apex and two spreading pungent teeth on each side of the margin. The young shoots 

 are somewhat downy or almost glabrescent and of a yellowish-brown color. In 

 the fruits of Purdom's form I have found only 2 yellow seeds and no trace of 

 any immature ovule, while the flowers of the type contain 4 ovules. This 

 fact needs further investigation. It is a very pretty and apparently quite hardy 

 species. The name parvifolia has been used before by Lindley for Berberis (in 

 Jour. Hort. Soc. II. 243, fig. [1847]), of which I saw a specimen in 1905. Lindley's 

 species being a mere synonym of B. ruscifolia Lamarck, Sprague's name must be 

 kept according to the International rules. 



