Indian barberry, mara manjal, chutro, sumbal, tree turmeric, or aristate barberry, Berberis aristata. Native to the Himalayas, seeds sent by Dr Nathaniel Wallich from Nepal, used in Ayurveda traditional medicine. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823-27.

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