Antitazis. | BERBERIDE®. 57 
half-terete, very thick, slightly curved, the radicle minute.—Shrubs, 
ually scandent, with fascicled or shortly panicled small flowers. 
1. P, pleniflora, Miers; H.f. & Ind. Fl. i. 106.—An evergreen 
large scandent eur, all parts 7 or the branchlets puberulous; 
leaves oblong-lanceolate, on a } to an in. long petiole thickened at 
the apex, 5-7 in. long, coriaceous, bluntish acuminate, glabrous or 
puberulous on the midrib beneath, strongly netveined; flowers 
minute, almost capitate, the peduncles 2-3 lin. long, puberulous, 
1-2-flowered; drupes roads oblong, 4 in. long, glabrous. 
Has.—Ava, Kakhyen hills 
ANTITAXIS, Miers. 
Flowers oe Males : sepals 8, in decussate pat the outer 
ones small, the 4 inner ones larger’ and imbrica Pe 2, 
obovate. Seca 4; filaments club-shaped ; satiieke 1-celled, 
opening transversely. Females unknown. Drupes 1-3, 
globose, with a ventral style-scar, the ehdlocard crustaceous, almost 
reniform-oblong. Seeds nearly globose, concave on the inner face. 
nnone. Cotyledon Feit teste oblong, slightly curved, the 
radicle minute. 
1. A. calocarpa, Kz.—An evergreen large woody climber, the 
leaf-buds minutely bicrwsittcacieciiers leaves oblong, on a minutely 
pubescent glabrescent petiole 4-2 in. long, acute or obtuse at the 
base, a in. long, acuminate » thin chartaceous 3, elegantly netveined, 
the late ‘gin; flowers 
—_— cea, on slender appressed. hispid ¢ 2-8 lin, long pedicels, 
umerous, formin ming small clusters arising from tomentose tubercles 
en above the scars of the fallen leaves ; drupes globular, the size 
of a cherry, smooth, scarlet, on glabrous peduncles about 3 in. long. 
Has.—Tropical forests of the Chittagong hills 
BERBERIDEZ. 
— regular. Sepals 6 or 4, in 2 whorls, or 3, and petaloid. 
— tals as many or twice as many, sabes wan: sai. lg es 4-9, 
i a longitudinal slit or by recurved v: ” Carpe Is 1-3, rarely 
more, with 2 or several (rarely a singel) peal in oie ; style sk 
Ripe carpels dry or Hees oe or not. en co ; 
small trees, rarely climbing, with sealy bud and a or ocak 
leaves. Stipules usually no: 
A 
small family, of which only a single species occurs in Burma. ; 
The berries of the berberry are acid and astringent. The bark —— : 
