J. Francis Macbride Flora of Peru, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) internet üzerinden ibook

Barberry Family The importance of this family in Peru centers about Berberis lutea and relatives, the ccarhuascassa or palo amarillo, sometimes called espino amarillo, whose yellow wood, with that ofB occonia, furnishes the beautiful, yellow dye seen in ponchos and other clothing to this day (R uiz Pavdri). 1. BERBERIS L. Barberry Reference: Schneider, Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 5: 338, 133-148, 391-403, 449-464, 655-670, and 800-831. 1904-1905. Shrubs with or without spines, these typically trifurcate. Leaves ,simple in the Peruvian species, fasciculate, entire or more or less laculeate-dentate. Flowers yellow or reddish yellow, variously disrposed, with 3-4, most often 6, deciduous sepals and usually as many petals, these biglandular within. Filaments as many as the petals, .dentate or edentate. Ovules 1-12, laterally inserted at the base of the 1-celled ovary, the fruit 2-3-seeded. Schneider has given a careful and discriminating account of the Andean forms which, 5however, with more knowledge, probably will be found to constitute fewer species. For the purposes of this work it has seemed practical to follow earlier authors and group the forms primarily according toy the nature of the inflorescence, which for well developed specimens of nearly all species is quite obvious. It may be stated that the work of P. E. Citerne, cited several times on the following pages, is a thesis of the Faculty desS ciences de Paris, Se rie B, No. 183. 1892, very rare and sometimes filed in libraries under this citation. v? Omitted from the following synopsis is the name B. rotunda ~M acbr. Candollea 6: 3. 1934, which, as casual observation of the type has shown, has nothing in common with this family except ;a certain similarity in foliage. Because of this, the specimen had wbeen laid in a cover with species of Berberis described the same evening and perhaps flowers of Berberis (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)