Tas. 4590. 
- BERBERIS Darwinu. 
Mr. Darwin's Berberry. 
Nat. Ord. BerBerIDE#®.—HExanprRiIA MonoGyntia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4308.) 
BerBeris Darwinii ; ramis junioribus rufo-pubescentibus, spinis brevibus pal- 
mato-partitis, foliis rigide coriaceis nitidis discoloribus cuneatis apice tri- 
fidis margine paucidentatis dentibus lobisque spinescentibus, racemis co- 
piosis folio longioribus, pedicellis flores vix superantibus gracilibus, baccis 
glauco-nigricantibus (una cum stylo persistente) lageniformibus. 
Berseris Darwinii. J/ook. Ic. Plant. v.71. ¢.672. Moore, Gard. Mag. of Bot. 
1851. 129 cum ic. Lindl. et Paxt. Fl. Garden, 1851. t. 46. 
Of all the Berberries yet known in cultivation, no one cer- 
tainly is more beautiful than the present, and, in my late visit 
paid to the two unrivalled Nurseries in Exeter, Messrs. Lucombe 
and Pince and Messrs. Veitch, it was a great treat to see this 
flourishing in the open air, in the collection of the latter (Messrs. 
Veitch), by whom it has been introduced from South Chili by 
their collector, Mr. William Lobb. ‘The leaves are copious and 
glossy, the racemes of flowers are of a rich golden colour, and 
the peduncle and pedicels are often beautifully tinged with red. 
Its first discoverer was Mr. Darwin: and it appears to have been 
since found by every naturalist visiting Chiloe or the opposite 
coast of South Chili. 
Descr. A moderate-sized shrub, with dark brown Jéranches, 
the younger ones clothed with rufous pubescence. Leaves co- 
pious, sessile, cuneate, coriaceous, firm and very glossy, dark 
green above, pale beneath, the apex trifid, the lobes spinescent, 
one or more spinous teeth often appear lower down from the 
apex of the leaf. Stipulary spines short, palmated, firm. Ra- 
cemes very abundant, drooping. Peduncles, pedicels, and small 
6racteas more or less tinged with red. Pedicels slender, rather 
longer than the flower. Calyx of six sepals, three outer smaller, 
JULY Ist, 1851. 
