Tab. 6770. 
BERBERIS concestiroua, var. hakeoides. 
Native of Chili. 
Nat. Ord. BerperrpEx.—Tribe BERBERER. 
Genus Berseris, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 41.) 
Berseris congestiflora ; ramis robustis decurvis foliosis, foliis orbicularibus v. late 
oblongis sessilibus v. breviter petiolatis crasse coriaceis spinuloso-dentatis 
subtus glaucis, stipularibus flabellatis sinuato-spinulosis, floribus in capitula 
sessilia axillaria et in spicas terminiles interruptas conglobatis, sepalis 9, 
3 extimis oblongis obtusis, 3 intimis late oblongis concavis, petalis 6 anguste 
obovato-oblongis incurvis, filamentis brevibus apice 2-cornutis, ovario oblongo, 
stigmate sessili. 
B. congestiflora, Gay. Fl. Chili, vol. i. p. 75, t. 3. 
Var. hakeoides, foliis majoribus imbricatis, ramis in spicas interruptas elongatas 
densissime floriferas abeuntibus. 
This is a very striking plant, and quite unlike any Bar- 
berry hitherto cultivated. It forms a large bush, with 
decurved branches loaded with globose masses of flowers, 
some of which are sessile in the axils of the leaves, and many 
more form consecutive heads sessile on the long leafless 
terminations of the branches, which gives the shrub a very 
singular appearance. In the curious fan-shaped stipuli- 
form leaves it approaches the Chilian B. actinacantha, 
Mart, (Bot. Reg. vol. xxxi. t.55), but differs in the form of 
the leaves, which are glaucous beneath, and in the inflo- 
rescence, Its real affinity is with B. congestiflora, Gay, of 
Chili, of which the usual form has the heads of flowers on 
axillary peduncles; this is a marked difference, but specimens 
collected by Lechler are hardly distinguishable from our 
plant, and considering the excessively variable habits of all 
the genus, and that the plant from which our drawing is 
made has been cut back several times, much importance 
cannot be attached to characters founded on habit; both 
have rounded leaves, glaucous beneath, and similar stipular 
ones, both have the spurred tips to the filaments, and they 
aveust Isr, 1884, 
