Title: Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire
Identifier: CUbiodiversity690553 (find matches)
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Brandis, Dietrich, Sir, 1824-1907
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: London : A. Constable & Co. , Ltd
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Mann Library, Cornell

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Berber is) vl. BExt-BEivIDACEJE 29 Deciduous, bark grey, brancMets red. Leaves membranous or thinly coriaceouSj glaucous beneath, serrate with equal spinulose teeth, crowded on arrested branchlets in the axils of 3-fid, rarely 5-fid or simple spines. Racemes pedunculate, stigma broad, sessile. Berry ovoid or cylindiicj as long as or shorter than pedicel, usually red when ripe. ISTortli-West Himalaya, mostly in shady forest of Silver Fir, Spruce and Oak, 8,000 12,000 ft. Fl. March-June. Tibet, Northern Asia, Japan and Glima, Afghanistan, Europe. A form witli thinly coriaceous leaves in Baluchistan. 3. B. aristata, DC; Brand. F. Fl. 12 ; Collett Simla Fl. fig. 8.—Syn. B. tlnctoria^ Leschenault; Wight 111. t. 8. Vern. Kashmal^ Kcmmicl^ Kammid^ Simla; Bagl Sutrumj Kan; Kingora^ Garhwal. Branches shining, reddish-brown, slightly drooping. Leaves coriaceous, more or less persistent, obovate or oblanceolate, green beneath, entire or with few large distant spinescent teeth. FL golden yellow, in long drooping compound racemes, much longer than leaves, peduncles and pedicels slender. Berries spindle-shaped, tapering into a short style, stigma small subglobose. Outer Himalaya, Indus to Bhutan, 4,000-10,000 ft., Kilgiris, Ceylon PL Maruli-June. On high exposed ridges a stunted shrub with smaller leaves and short racemes. 4. B. Lycium, Eoyle; Brandis F. Fl. 12. Vern. Kabhmal, Chochar^ Chotra, Simla. An erect shrub, bark grey or whitish, branches rigid. Leaves narrow^ lanceolate or oblanceolate, coriaceous, mucronate, generally entire, bright green above, glaucous beneath. Fl. small, pale yellow, in corymbose, at times compound racemes, which generally are as long as or a little longer than leaves. Pedicels slender, longer than the blue ovoid berries, style distinct^ stigma capitate. Outer North-West Himalaya on clearances, along the roadside, often gregarious, from Kashmir to Garhwal, 3,000-8,000 ft. Fl. March, April, a fortnight earlier than B, aristata, 5. B. asiatica, Eoxb.; Bi^andis F, FL 12, Bark pale, the arrested leaf-bearing shoots often on the top of stout woody tuberculate branchlets of previous years. Leaves rigidly coriaceous, white beneath, obovate, some- times nearly orbicular, nerves and veins strongly reticulate, lacunose be- tween the veins. Seedlings have broadly-ovate leaves, petiole slender, more than twice the length of blade. The juvenile state of other species (B, Wallichiana^ JB. concinna) is similar. FL in short corymbose racemes. Berries large, ovoid, often neaxdy globose, red or black, stigma capi- tate on a distinct style. Outer Himalaya, from Ku- maun eastward, ascending to ^ 7,500 ft. Parasnath in Behar. Fig. 12.—Berberis asiatica, Boxb. Seedling and Fl H. S. fruiting "branch. J.
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