110 VI. BERBERiDE^. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) \Berleris 



3. B. umbellata, Wall. Cat. 147? ; leaves more or less deciduous ob- 

 ovate sparingly serrulate, flowers subumbellate on a long naked pedunde, 

 berries oblong, stigma flat sessile. Don Syst. Qard. i. 116 ; H. f. & T. Fl. 

 Ind. 224. B. aristata, DC. Frodr. i. 106 ; ffook Bot. Mag. t. 2549. 



Temperate Himalaya, alt. 9-11,000 ft., from Kumaon to Bhotan. 

 An erect straggling shrub, 8-10 ft. ; branches slender, rigid, leafy. Leaves 1-2 ia., 

 submembranous, green or glaucous beneath. Flowers like those of B. vulgaris. 



4. B. aristata, DC Syst. ii. 8 ; erect, leaves evergreen or nearly so, 

 obovate or oblong entire or with few distant spinous teeth, flowers in com- 

 pound often corymbose racemes, berries tapering into a short style, stigma 

 small subglobose. E.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 224. 



Temperate Himalaya, alt. 6-10,000 ft. ; from Bhotan to Kunawar. Nilohiei Mts. 

 •and Ceylon, alt. 6-7000 ft. 



As Tariabie as B. vulgaris. 



Var. 1. aristata, purple, leaves 1-3 in. broad obovate or oblong elliptic acute or awned 

 entire or spinulose-serrate towards the tip green or glaucous beneath, racemes com- 

 pound, flowers large, pedicels red. DC.Prodr. i. 106 ; Boyle III. 64 ; WaU. Cat. 1474. 

 B. tinctoria, iescft. ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 16; Beless.Ie. Sel ii. t. 2; Wight lilt. 8. 

 B. chitria. Bam.; Don Prodr. 204; Bot. Meg. t. 729. B. angustifolia, Boxh. Bort. 

 Beng. 87. — Nipal to Sirmore. 



VIb. 2. floribunda {sp. WaU. mss. Cat. 1474) ; leaves smaller, flowers on long 

 peduncles, racemes subsimple or subumbellate. B. petiolaris, WaU. under Cat. 1474; 

 Don Syst. Gard. i. 115. B. afSnis and ceratophylla, Don I.e. B. coriaria, Boyle mss. ; 

 Lindl. in Bot. Peg. N.S. xiv. t. 46. B. umbellata, LindL I.e. 1844, t. 44 (not of Watt.)'. 

 — Kumaon to Kunawar. 



Var. 3. micrantha; leafy, leaves 1-3 in. very coriaceous obovate-lanceolate coarsely 



spinulose-toothed, racemes long nodding, flowers small. WaU. Cat. 1474. Bhotan 



to Garwhal. 



5. B. Xiycium, Royle El. 64; Trans. Linn. Soc. xvil 94; bark white, 

 leaves subsessile subpersistent lanceolate or narrow obovate oblong usuaUy 

 quite entire pale not lacunose glaucous beneath, raceme elongate, berries 

 ovoid, style conspicuous, stigma capitate. JI. f. «& T. Fl. Ind. 225. 



Westers Himalaya, in dry hot places ; alt. 3-9000 ft., from Garwhal to Hazara. 



An erect rigid shrub, 6-8 ft. leaves lJ-24 by J-J in., coriaceous, muoronate, very 

 spinulose, bright green above, venation lax. Bacemes simple or compound, often 

 corymbose, drooping, longer thau the leaves. Berry violet. — Yery distinct in its 

 ordinary state, but some forms appear to pass into B. aristata, and others into £. 

 asiatica. 



6. B. asiatica, Eoxb. in DC. Syst. ii. 13; bark pale, spines 5-fid small 

 leaves orbicular or broad obovate subentire or coarsely spinous lacunose 

 white beneath, racemes short corymbose, berries with a distinct style stigma 

 capitate. Hoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 182 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. iL t. 1 ; Wall. Cat. 1477 

 (eascZ. syn. tinctoriag). B. hypoleuca, Lindl. Joum. Ewt. Soc. ii 246. 



Dry valleys of the Himalaya, alt. 3-7500 ft. ; from Bhotan to Garwhal. Behak on 

 Parasnath, alt. 3500 It., Edgeworth. — ^Distkib. Afighanistan. • ' 



An erect stout branched bush, 3-6 ft. Leaves 1-3 in., rarely acute, thickly coria- 

 ceous, very strongly reticulate beneath. Bacemes peduncled or subsessile • flowers 

 rather small, ^i in. diam. Berry red or black, glaucous, often large, eatable. 



** Peduncles fascicled, \-flawered. 



7. B. -Wallichiana, DC. Prodr. i. 107; leaves evergreen lanceolate or 

 oblong-lanceolate, flowers many in a fascicle, beriy ovoid or oblong. WaM. 



