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BERBERIS wereropy#.uia. 
Various-leaved Barberry. 
HEXANDRIA Nat. Orv. 
Gen. Caar.—Calyz hexaphyllus (squamis 3 extus'stipata). Petala 6, intus 
biglandulosa. Anthere valvis dehiscentes. Bacca monolocularis, 2-3- 
(poly-) sperma.—D. C. 
Berberis heterophylla; spinis tripartitis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis glabris, 
aliis integris, aliis tridentato-pungentibus, pedicellis solitartis uni- 
floris folio. vix longioribus.— Dec. 
B. heterophylla, Porrer, in Encycl. Bot. v. viii. p. 622—De Cann. Regn. 
Veget. v. ii. p. 16. 
B. tricuspidata, Smitu, Herb. (fide De Cann.) 2 
A shrub, rising about 3 feet in height, much branched, the older branches co- 
vered with dark wrinkled bark ; the younger ones brown, and somewhat 
angled. Leaves clustered, of 2 kinds, the younger ones being pale green 
unarmed, and the margins entire, softish; the old ones i with 
a sharp spinose point, and having a lateral spinule on each side above the 
middle; hence the appropriate MS. name of Sir James Smrrx ; those 
older ones, too, are quite rigid, dark green, shining: all of them obovato- 
cuneate, slightly nerved. ; veg 
Peduncles axillary, solitary, curved, longer than the young leaves from among 
i i extremity. The flower 
many petals, broadly ovate, connivent, deep yellowish-orange, crenated at 
the margin. At the base of each petal are 2 oblong, reddish-yellow glands, 
and between these, on each petal, is placed the stamen; this is shorter than 
the petal, yellow-orange coloured: Filament short, thick, with ed lateral 
teeth, one on each side below the anther. Anther 2-celled, opening with 
2 valves, whose broadest part is at the back of the anther ; these open from 
the base upward, and remain erect, attached by their upper (now become — 
their lower) extremity : Pollen globose. Pistil about as long as the sta~ 
mens. Germen globose, glabrous, green, 1-celled, with several, from 
8-10, ovules: Style, scarcely any: Stigma plane, glandular, and honey- 
bearing at the margin, i in the centre. 
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