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GENUS I. BERBERIS. 
Wiexandria Monogynia. Sez: Syst: 
Deriv. From Berberys, the Arabic name. 
Gew. Cuar. Shrubs: the primary leaves abortive and generally 
changéd into thorns, the secondary ones fascicled in the axils of the 
others: sepals 6, tribacteate: petals 6: stigma depressed, sessile, 
ex very rarely with a style: berry 1-9-seeded. 
(1) B. tinctoria. ,(Lesch.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 16. 
Syn. BB. aristata, Dec. prod. 1. p. 106. Hook. & Thoms. Flor. 
Ind. I, p. 222.—B. chitria, Ham. Mss. Don. prod. p. 204.—B. 
angustifolia, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 87. 
Engrav. Deless. Ic. II. p. 1. t. 2.—Wight’s Il. I. t. 8.—Bot. 
Reg. t. 729.—Hook. Ex. flor. t. 98. 
Spec. Cnar. Spines deeply divided into three sharp segments : 
leaves oboval, quite entire, or with distant, small, spiny teeth, 
glaucous: nerves and veins prominent beneath: racemes stalked, 
longer than the leaves: petals distinctly biglandular : flowers 
yellow, 
Neilgherries. Pulney Mountains. Flowering from January to 
April. 
(2) B. Lescuenavuittn. (Wall. ) 
‘Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 16. 
Syn. Mahonia Nepaulensis, Dec. prod. I. p. 109. Hook. § 
Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p. 219.—Berberis pinnata, Roxb. fl. Ind. 11. 
p. 184.—B. miccia, Don. prod. 205.—B. acanthifolia, Wall, Mss. 
Don's Mill. I.-p, 118. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 9. 40.—Spicil. I. t. 8.-—Deless. Ic. 
sel. IT. t. 4. 
Spec. Cuar. Leaves pinnate: leaflets about six pair, ovate, 
slightly cordate at the base with 6-8 thorny teeth at each side: 
lower pair of leaflets close to the stem: racemes elongated, slender : 
petals with two distinct glands: berry globose, crowned with the 
style and stigma: flowers smallish, bright-yellow. 
Neilgherries. Khasia hills, Travancore mountains. Flowering 
from October to March. 
