come from the same country. Under these circumstances, 
whilst the name hakeoides may be usefully maintained, this 
- plant must be looked upon as likely to develop the charac- 
ters of the true B. congestiflora. 
For this fine addition to English shrubberies I am indebted 
to Messrs. Veitch, who introduced it in 1861 through their 
collector, the late Richard Pearce, from the Cordillera of 
Chili (near Arguilhue), and who have flowered it annually 
in the open air in their fine garden at Coombe Wood in 
early spring. 
Descr. A stout ramous bush, six to seven feet high; 
branches angular, glabrous, the terminal elongate and de- 
curved, loaded with leaves and flowers. Leaves one to 
two inches long, almost imbricating, sessile or shortly 
petioled, orbicular or very broadly oblong, convex, very 
thickly coriaceous, rigidly spinous-toothed, base rounded 
or cordate, bright green above, glaucous beneath, upper 
gradually smaller; petiole one-sixth to one-fourth of an 
inch long; stipular leaves semicircular, deeply spinous- 
sinuate, nerves flabellate. Flowers in dense globose simple 
or compound heads one-half to three-quarters of an inch 
in diameter, which are sessile or shortly peduncled in the 
axils of the leaves, or sessile along the flagelliform leafless 
ends of the branches, thus forming long interrupted spikes ; 
pedicels short, glabrous. Perianth a fourth of an inch in 
diameter, subglobose, bright golden-yellow. Sepals nine, 
three outer smallest, linear-oblong, obtuse, three inter- 
mediate larger, nine broadly oblong concave obtuse. Petals 
Six, In a regular series, erect, incurved and ‘conniving, 
narrowly oblong, obtuse or emarginate; glands oblong. 
Stamens very short, filaments with a horizontal spur on 
each side at the top projecting laterally beyond the shortly 
oblong anther. Ovary ellipsoid, smooth; stigma pulviniform, 
sessile. Berry small.—J. D. H. 
Pp with fa miform leaves; 8, flower; 4, petal; 5 and 6, stamens; 
er-valves open ; 8, ovary :- all enlarged. 
