224 Takeda— Old World Species of the Genus Mahonia. 



Stamina brevia, nlamentis crassis apice bidentatis cum anthens 

 subaequilongis, connectivo crasso depresso-triangulari. Ovarium 

 3-4 mm. longum, stylo i mm. longo coronatum, 5-6-ovulatum. 

 Bacca globosa, subnutans, 7-10 mm. diametro, stylo crasso 

 distincto 1 mm. superante coronata. 



Hab.— Nilghiri (Wallich ! No. 1479; Gardener! 1847; 

 Hohenacker ! No. 1125 ; Wight ! Nos. 49, 50 > ex Hb - Bal1 

 Comm. G. S. Gough ! ; W. A. ! No. 53 ; CarcorrGhat (G. King ! 

 No. 1279.B, fr.) ; Anamallaya hills (Beddome ! No. 177) ; 

 Tinnevelly hills (Beddome ! No. 178) ; Ootacamund, 7500 ft. 

 (Gamble! No. 12,443, A- Sept. 1883); Sholas on Kundahs, 

 7000 ft. (C. E. C. Fischer ! No. 2546, Feb. 1911) ; Minchiguli, 

 4800 ft. (C. E. C. Fischer ! No. 976, fl.). 



Obs.— A very distinct species amongst the Indian Mahonias 

 in the globose berry which is furnished with a long style and 

 borne on a slender pedicel, in the short thick stamen with a 

 dentate filament, and in the short but broad sepals and petals 

 which are thick in consistency and are strongly veined. 



The present species occurs in the Nilghiri hills where it is 

 found in abundance. 



The writer has also examined in the Kew Herbarium a sterile 

 specimen from Bhutan which possesses leaflets elliptical-oval, 

 cuspidate-acuminate, margins incrassate and furnished with 8-12 

 shallow teeth on both sides. This is possibly a good distinct 

 species, but owing to the lack of material it is left unnamed for 

 the present. As far as the character of leaf goes it comes near 

 M. Veitchiorum, a Chinese species, but differs from the latter in 

 several respects. 



II. THE CHINESE SPECIES. 



The first record of Chinese species of this genus was made 

 by R. Fortune who paid repeated visits to China during 

 eighteen years from 1843. The first species discovered by this 

 diligent collector was M.. Fortunei* and soon afterwards M. 

 Bealei f and the so-called M. trifurca % were found. In 1882 

 Hance recorded the occurrence of M. napaulensis in Szechwan, 

 where Mesny collected a specimen in i88o.§ M. Bealei was 

 subsequently reduced by Hemsley to M. napaulensis, and since 

 M. trifurca is entirely ignored by this author, there are only 



* Berberia Fortunei, Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc i, pp. 231, 300, cum ic. xylogr., 



f Berberis Bealei, Fort, in Card. Chron. 1850, p. 212. 



X B. trifurca, Fort, in Lindi. et Paxton, Flower Gard. hi, p. 57, fig. 258, 

 1852-53. § Hance, in Journ. Bot. n.s. xi, p. 2, 1882. 



