230 FLORA INDICA. - [BerberidetB . 



Sikkimens. et Kumaonens. latiora, denique Khasiani8 et mont. peninsulse fere globo- 

 sis. Semina 2-4. 



We have no hesitation in uniting the Peninsular and Khasia with the Himalayan 

 species, notwithstanding the difference in the shape of the berries and leaflets be- 

 tween the extreme states of each. Dr. Wight informs us that he has cultivated the 

 Himalayan one side by side in his garden with that of the Nilghiri, and finds them to 

 be undistinguishable. Specimens of the Sikkim plant, cultivated for a good many 

 years at DorjUing, acquired longer racemes, larger flowers, and more slender pedicels 

 than the wild specimens in the adjacent woods. The bracts are very variable organs. 



Sect. 3. Folia simplicia (nempe unifoliolata). 



§ 1. Flares racemosi v. subcorymbosi {interdum in B. Asiatioa /«s- 

 cicttlati). 

 3. B. vulgaris (L.) ; foliis plus minusve deciduis, racemis elon- 

 gatis V. abbreviatis non umbellatis, petalis subintegris, baccis stigtmate 

 sessili discoideo coronatis. 



a. normalis ; ramulis teretibus, foliis gracile petiolatis amplis mera- 

 branaceis argute serratis oblongis lanceolatis obovatisve acutis v. apioe 

 rotundatis, racemis foliis longioribus pendulis simplicibus non glaucis, 

 floribus majusculis, baccis ovato-oblongis rubris compressis, stigraate 

 subsessili, seminibus 3-5. — B. vulgaris, Linn. Sp. 473; SO. Frodr. i. 

 105 ; Led. Fl. Boss. 79 ; Thmb. Fl. Jap. i. 146 ; Reich. Ic. Fl. Oerm. 

 t. 18. B. Altaica et B. Daburica, Kort. {fid. Herb. Lindl). 



0. cratcBgina ; foliis magis coriaceis rigidis et persistentibus 1-2^- 

 uncialibus integerrimis v. spinuloso-serratis, racemis elongatis, baccis 

 oblongis subsphsericisve. — B. cratsegina, DC. Syst. ii. 9, Frodr. i. 106. 

 B. emarginata, Willd. i. 395 ; DO. Frodr. i. 105. B. Canadensis, Jiz^^. 

 Bid. n. 3 ; BO. Frodr. i. 106 ; Torrey et Gray, Fl. For. Am. i. 50. B. 

 spliserocarpa, Kar. et Kir.! En. Fl. Fl. Alt. n. 46 ; Led. Fl. Ross. i. 743, 

 B. heteropoda, Sehrenk. ! En. Fl. Nov. Boong. 103 ; Led. Fl. Ross. i. 743. 

 B. Turoomanica, Karel. mss.; Led. Fl. Ross. i. 79. 



y. JEtnensis ; rigidior, robustior, humUis, ramis validis crassis, fo- 

 liis 1-1^-uncialibus obovatis obtusis mucronatisve rarius lanceolatis 

 grosse V. crebre spinuloso-serratis rarius integerrimis subcoriaceis ner- 

 vis prominulis opacis nitidisve, racemis subereotis v. nutantibus foliis 

 paullo longioribus. — B. vulgaris, var. maoroacantha, Gussone, Fl. Frod. 

 Flor. Sic. i. 436. B. Sinensis, Fresl, Flor. Sic. i. 28 ; R. et S. vii. 3 ; 

 Moris, Fl. Sardoa, i. t. 5. B. Kunawarensis, Royle ? III. 64. 



S. brachybotrys ; ramulis robustis saapius glaucis, foliis vix coria- 

 ceis l^-li-unoialibus obovatis lanceolatisve aristatis spiuuloso-serrulatis 

 integerrimisve, racemis abbreviatis multifloris subcor3'mbosis. — B. bra- 

 chybotrys, Edgeworth ! in Linn. Soc. Trans, xx. 39. 



e. Oretiea; fruticulus humilis v. prostratus, robustus, dense ramo- 

 sus, foliis parvulis |— 1-uncialibus rigide coriaceis angulatis spinuloso- 

 serratis V. lobatis obovatis cuneato-lanoeolatisque margine incrassatis 

 nervis conspicuis, racemis elongatis abbreviatisve. — B. Cretica, Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 472; T/mnb. Fl. Jap. i. 146 ; Sibth. Fl. Grac. t. 343; BO. I.e. 

 B. vulgaris, var. australis, Boissier in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 3. xvi. 871. 

 B. Thunbergii, BO. Syst. ii. 9, Frodr. i. 106. 



