Raised from seeds which were sent to our Botanic Garden 
by Dr Wallich, who had received them from Nepal, where 
this species of Berberis appears to have been first discovered 
by Dr Buchanan Hamilton. It forms a small and hand- 
some shrub, not much unlike the common European species, 
but with leaves of a far more coriaceous texture, and more dis- 
tinctly ciliato-dentate, its flowers much larger, and with more 
spreading floral coverings, and the petals emarginate at the ex- 
tremity. 
I find by the specimens of this plant in my herbarium, 
which I have received from Dr Wallich, and from Sir 
James E. Smith, that not only are its leaves liable to much 
variation in their greater or less degree of denticulation, some 
of these being quite entire at the margins ; but also that the 
spines are equally dissimilar, many being quite simple, others 
having two small lateral spines, and others again with all of 
these equal in length : sometimes they are wholly wanting. 
Fig. 1 . A flower-bud shewing its bracteas, which soon after expansion fall 
away. Fig. 2. Expanded flower. Fig. 3. Stamen with cells opening by 
valves. Fig, 4. Pistil with its two glands. Fig. 5. Pistil : a, The recep- 
tacle from which the petals and the calyx are removed ; b, The enlarged 
summit of the pedicel. — All more or less magnified. 
