southern species of the genus, of the leaves, which are very 
small, being deciduous, and the flowers appearing with the 
very early leafy shoots. More similar still to the present 
plant is Ruiz and Pavon’s B. virgata (Fl. Peru and Chili, 
vol. 1. p. 51, tab. 281, f. B.), a native of the mountains of 
Peru; but here again the flowers (though described as 
solitary by De Candolle) are stated by its authors to be 
three, or sometimes two or four, and the peduncles are 
short, compared with those of B. buwifolia. 
Berberis buxifolia ranges from Chili to the Straits of 
Magellan, and probably further south, but in Fuegia it is 
replaced by B. ilicifolia and B. microphylla. Tt was intro- 
duced into cultivation by seeds collected by Mr. Anderson, 
the botanical collector attached to Captain King’s survey 
of the Magellan Straits, which were raised in Mr. Low’s 
nursery at Clapton. It has long been cultivated at Kew. 
The berries are eatable. oe 
Descr. An erect glabrous rigid shrub. Leaves tufted ; 
one to one and a half inch long, very coriaceous, sessile or 
contracted into a petiole, obovate or cuneate-obovate, acute, 
obtuse or mucronate, quite entire or rarely with a few 
small spinous teeth, deep bright green. lowers solitary 
on long stout glabrous or puberulous pedicels, which are 
longer, and sometimes twice as long as the leaves, globose, 
half an inch in diameter, orange-yellow. Sepals ovate, 
obtuse, three outer half as long as the inner, which are 
orbicular and retuse. Berry nearly globose, dark blackish- 
purple ; style stout, distinct ; stigma orbicular.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower cut longitudinally ; 2 
of stamens ; 4, pistil -—ad/ enlarged. 
, petal and stamen ; 3, front and back view = 
