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BERBERIS HETEROPYHLLA. 
Various-leaved Barberry. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.— Nat. Ord. BERBBRIDES. 
Gen. Char. — Calyx hexaphyllus (squamis 3 extus" stipata). Petala 6, intus 
biglandulosa. Antherce Valvis dehiscentes. Bacca monolocularis, 2-3- 
(poly-) sperma.-— D. C. 
Berberis heterophylla; spinis tripartitis, foliis ovata-lanceolatis glabris, 
aliis integris, aliis tridentato-pungentibus, pedicellis solitariis uni- 
floris folio vix longioribus. — Dec. 
B. heterophylla, Poiret, in Encycl. Bot. v. viii. p. 622. — De Cand. Regn. 
Veget. V. ii. p. l6. 
B. tricuspidata. Smith, Herb, (fide De Cand.) 
A shrub, rising about 3 feet in height,[much branched, the older branches co- 
vered with dark wrinkled bark ; the younger ones brown, and somewhat 
angled. Leaves clustered, of 2 kinds, the younger ones being pale green 
unarmed, and the margins entire, softish ; the old ones terminated with 
a sharp spinose point, and having a lateral spinule on each side above the 
middle ; hence the appropriate MS. name of Sir James Smith ; those 
older ones, too, are quite rigid, dark green, shining : all of them obovato- 
cuneate, slightly nerved. 
Peduncles axillary, solitary, curved, longer than the young leaves from among 
which they spring ; bearing a single ^^ower at the extremity. The Jhtver 
about the size of a pea, composed of 6 calycine leaflets, ovato-concave, of 
which the three exterior and alternate leaflets are the smallest ; and of as 
many petals, broadly ovate, connivent, deep yellowish-orange, crenated at 
the margin. At the base of each petal are 2 oblong, reddish-yellow glands, 
and between these, on each petal, is placed the stamen; this is shorter than 
the petal, yellow-orange coloured : Filament short, thick, with 2 lateral 
teeth, one on each side below the anther. Anther 2-celled, opening with 
2 valves, whose broadest part is at the back of the anther ; these open from 
the base upward, and remain erect, attached by their upper (now become 
their lower) extremity ; Pollen globose. Pistil about as long as the sta- 
mens. Germen globose, glabrous, green, 1 -celled, with several, from 
8-10, ovules : Style, scarcely any : Stigma plane, glandular, and honey- 
bearing at the margin, umbilicated in the centre. 
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