Kensington, where it was preserved in a small garden-pot, 
in a pit. 
Introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1790. 
A stiff upright diminutive shrub, from nine inches to a 
foot and half high at most : stem scarcely of the thickness of 
the little finger; branches alternate; wood lemon-coloured; 
bark grey or ash-coloured, deep yellow on the inside. Each 
branch or bud is subtended by a palmately pronged thorn 
(thorny stipule according to Murray) with 3-4- or 5 divari- 
cated streaked subulate stiff prongs. Leaves fascicled, from 
the axil of the thorns, obovately oblong, widely dentate, cili- 
ate; in young seedling plants suborbicular, long-petioled, and 
ciliate. Flowers between the leaves, solitary, upon a naked 
peduncle, cernuous, larger than in the Common Barberry. 
Outer calyx (3 bractes) of three pieces greenish yellow; 
inner (true calyx) larger and broader than the corolla, 
consisting of as many leaflets as there are petals. Corolla 
of six deep yellow petals. Berries cernuous, larger and 
of a more ovate form than in the Common Barberry 
(Berperis vulgaris), surmounted by the permanent mush- 
room-shaped stigma, deep red, of a gratefully acid flavour: 
seeds five, oblong, flattened on one side, grey or ash- 
coloured, of a rough sour taste. 
