Herberts] 



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Deciduous, bark grey, brauchlets red. Leaves membranous or thinly 

 coriaceous, glaucous beneath, serrate with equal spinulose teeth, crowded on 

 arrested brauchlets in the axils of 3-fid, rarely 5-fid or simple spines. 

 Racemes pedunculate, stigma broad, sessile. Berry ovoid or cylindric, as 

 long as or shorter than pedicel, usually red when ripe. 



North-West Himalaya, mostly in shady forest of Silver Fir, Sprue- and Oak, 8,000 - 

 12,000 ft. Fl. March--June. Tibet, Northern Asia, Japan and China. Afghanistan, 

 Europe. A form with thinly coriaceous leaves in Baluchistan. 



3. B. aristata, DC. ; Brand. F. Fl. 12 ; Collett Simla Fl. fig. 8.— Syn. B. 

 tinctoria, Leschenault ; Wight 111. t. 8. Vera. Kashmal, Kaumul, Kammul, 

 Simla: Bagi Sutrum, Kan; Kingora, Garhwal. 



Branches shining, reddish-brown, slightly drooping. Leaves coriaceous, 

 more or less persistent, obovate or oblanceolate, green beneath, entire or with 

 few large distant spinescent teeth. Fl. golden 3'ellow, in long drooping 

 compound racemes, much longer than leaves, peduncles and pedicels slender. 

 Berries spindle-shaped, tapering into a short style, stigma small subglobose. 



Outer Himalaya. Indus to Bhutan, 4,000-10,000 ft., Nilgiris, Ceylon. Fl. March-June. 

 On high exposed ridges a stunted shrub with smaller leaves and short racemes. 



4. B. Lycium, Royle ; Brandis F. Fl. 12. Veru. Kashmal, Clioehar, 

 ( '/mtra, Simla. 



An erect shrub, bark grey or whitish, branches rigid. Leaves narrow, 

 lanceolate or oblanceolate, coriaceous, mucronate, generally entire, bright green 

 above, glaucous beneath. Fl. small, pale yellow, in corymbose, at times 

 c impound racemes, which generally are as long as or a little longer than 

 leaves. Pedicels slender, longer than the blue ovoid berries, style distinct, 

 stigma capitate. 



Outer North-Wes1 Himalaya on clearances, alone- the roadside, often gregarious, 

 from Kashmir tn (iarhwal, 3,000-S.i ii K I f t . Fl. March, April, a fortnight earlier than 

 Ii. aristata. 



5. B. asiatica, Roxb. ; Brandis F. Fl. 12 



Bark pale, the arrested 

 leaf-bearing shoots often 

 on the top of stout woody 

 tuberoulate brauchlets of 

 previous years. Leaves 

 rigidly coriaceous, white 

 beneath, iiliiivatf. some- 

 times nearly orbicular, 

 nerves and veins strongly 

 reticulate, lacunose be- 

 tween the veins. Seedlings 

 have broadly-ovate loaves, 

 petiole slender, more than 

 twice i lie Length "f Mail'-. 

 The juvenile state of o1 her 

 species i />'. Wallichiana, 

 Ii. concinna) is similar. 

 Fl. in sin .it corymbose 

 racemes. Merries large, 

 ovoid, often nearly globose, 



red or black, stigma capi- 

 tate Oil a ilist i 1 1 < • t style. 



i luter 1 1 Una laj a, from Eu- 



inauii i-a>i u a rd, ascend iu^ to 

 7,50 1 fi . Parasnal l> in Benar. 

 Fl. ii. s. 



12. — Berberis asiatica, Roxb. s 11 in jr 



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