234 FLORA INDICA. [Berberideee. 



intended by Hamilton (fid. Penny Cyclopsedia) to have been applied to this plant. 

 Wallich's B, peiiolaris, mss., has membranaceous leaves, and exactly resembles S. 

 umhellata, except in having a long style. 



y. micrantha. This retains its leaves in the moist forests of Sikkim throughout a 

 great part of the year, and is probably perfectly evergreen in many places. In 

 Sikkim specimens the leaves are concolorous below, but they are glaucous in some of 

 Wallich's from Nipal, and in some of Griffith's Bhotan ones. One of Wallich's spe- 

 cimens entirely resembles the ' Botanical Register ' plate of B. Chiiria, except in the 

 smaller flowers, which are less corymbose. In some Sikldm specimens the leaves are 

 not an inch long, and are nearly entire; in Nepal ones three inches long, and grossly 

 spinulose. Small states of this are not distinguishable except by the fruit from 

 vai'. Cretica of B, vulgaris, and others in all respects resemble forms of B. Lijcium, 

 Royle. 



4. B. umbellata (Wall. Cat. sub 1476 !); ramulis gracilibus vir- 

 gatis, foliis plerumque deciduis obovatis submembranaceis varie spinu- 

 loso-serratis in petiolum angustatis subtus glaucis concoloribusve, pedun- 

 culo elongate, floribus paucis longe pedicellatis pendulis subumbellatis, 

 bacois oblongis, stigmate subsessili discoideo. — Bon, Syst. Oard. i. 116, 

 B. aristata, Bot. Mag. t. 2549 ; TFall. Cat. 1474 ! ex parte. 



Hab. In Himalaya temperata et subalpina, alt. 9-11,000 ped. : Bho- 

 tan, Griffith ! Sikkim, in vallibus interioribus ! Nepal, Wall. ! Kumaon 

 et Garhvpal, Str. et JFint.! — (Tl. vere.) (v. v.) 



Fnttex virgatus, 8-10-pedalis, ramis gracilibus sparse foliosis. Folia \-2 unc. 

 louga, vix coriacea. Flores et fructus B. vulgaris, sed inflorescentia diversa. Bacc<s 

 fusco-rubras. 



Intermediate in many respects between B. vulgaris and B. aristata, and possibly 

 only a variety of B. vulgaris. It is a slender-branched plant, 8-10 feet high, with 

 scattered obovate leaves, hardly glaucous and sparingly toothed. It is not un- 

 common in the interior valleys of Sikkim, where it perfectly resembles the B. vul- 

 garis in habit. 



We have found it quite impossible to give any satisfactory references to Wallich's 

 Herbarium in the case of the species of Berberis. Specimens of this occur under 

 B. aristata and B. angulosa, and these names, together with those of B. umhellata 

 and B. petiolaris, have been used almost indiscriminately for the different forms of 

 the species we retain as B. aristata, umbellata^ and angulosa, and have been distri- 

 buted with them to the Linnean Society's and other Herbai'ia. The * Botanical 

 Magazine' plate of B. aristata (2549) well represents Wallich's and our umbellata. 



5. B. Asiatica (lloxb. in DC. Syst. ii. 13) ; cortice pallido, spinis 

 mediocribus parvisve foliis multoties brevioribus, foliis duris lacuuoso- 

 reticulatis orbiculatis obovatis obovato-lanceolatisve grosse sinuato- 

 spinosis integerrimisve subtus glaucis, pedicellis dense confertis v. in 

 racemum dispositis, ovario lagenseformi, stylo subelongato, baccis ovoi- 

 deis stylo distinoto. — BO. Prodr. i. 107 ; Roxh. Mor. Ind. ii. 182; Be- 

 less. Ic. Set. ii. t. 1 ; JFall. Cat. 1477 ! {excl. syn. B. tinctorias). B. 

 hypoleuca, Lindl. Hort. 8oc. Journ. ii. 246 ! cum ic. xyl. 



Hab. In Himalayse vallibus exterioribus siccis : Bhotan, Griffith! 

 Nipal, TFall! Kumaon et Garhwal, alt. 3-7500 ped.! Afghanistan, 

 Griff.! monte Parasnath pvov. Bahar, alt. 3500 ped., Edgeworth ! — 

 (FL Feb. Mar.) {v. v.) 



Fndcx robustus, 3-6-pedalis, c basi ramosus, ramis rigidis crassis ssepius tor- 

 tuosis, Spina pro genere parva;, 3-5-crures. Folia breve petiolata, subconfcrta, 



