Berberis. ] BERBERIDE. 211 
A strong glabrous climber with oblong leaves ; the fruits 
like bunches of grapes, the endocarp blood-red. 
31. Antitaxis Miers. 
fragile, subreniform. Seed subglobose, ventrally concave ; albumen 
0; cotyledons oblong, slightly incurved, thick, semicylindric. 
- 52. Anrrraxis caLocarpa Kurz. 
Chittagong. 
A shrub. 
Order VI. BERBERIDEZ. 
hrubs, armed or not, sometimes climbing, less often herbs ; 
buds usually scaly. Leaves alternate, simple or compound ; stipules 
rare (Berberis sometimes). Flowers regular, often globose, yellow 
r white, hermaphrodite or 1-sexual, in panicles or racemes or 
solitary. Disk 0. Perianth of similar sepals and petals, hypo- 
gynous, caducous, in 2 or more 2-8-, rarely 4-nate whorls, imbricate 
or with the sepals only valvate, very rarely 0. Stamens usually 
one opposite each petal; anthers erect, adnate ; filaments free or 
connate ; dehiscence longitudinal, extrorse or lateral, or by valves, 
revolute or ascending. Carpels 1 or 3, rarely 6-9, free, oblong, style 
0 or short, stigma peltate or oblong or conical ; ovules 2 or more, 
basal erect, or 2-many-seriate on the ventral suture, or many- 
seriate or scattered on the carpellary wall, anatropous with a 
ventral raphe rarely orthotropous. Fruit of berry-like fleshy, or 
dry indehiscent, or capsular dehiscent ripe carpels. Seed crusta- 
ceous, membranous or fleshy; albumen firmly fleshy ; embryo 
‘minute or elongated. 
32. Berberis Linn. 
Shrubs with yellow wood; leaves pinnate or simple and then 
fascicled in the axils of 3-5-partite spines. Flowers regular, 
hermaphrodite, yellow, solitary fascicled or racemose. sig seer 6, 
2-seriate, imbricate, with 2-8 adpressed bracts. Petals 6, 2-seriate, 
