in June, is perfectly hardy, and retains its foliage through 

 ordinary winters. Its nearest ally is B. punctatum, DC. of 

 Chili (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. (1834) t. 1658), of which it may 

 be only a variety, but which differs in the deeply lobed 

 leaves, ciliate petioles, and small, glabrous berries. 



Descr. — An erect shrub, branchlets, foliage, and in- 

 florescence, uniformly sub-glandular-tomentose ; branches 

 stout, terete, covered with a black-brown bark. Leaves 

 petioled, orbicular- ovate, one to one and a half inches 

 diam., sub-entire, or broadly shortly 3-lobed beyond the 

 middle, crenulately toothed, convex above, 3-5 -nerved 

 from the rounded or cordate base, lurid green on both 

 surfaces, paler and strongly nerved beneath ; petiole one- 

 half to two-thirds of an inch long ; stipules oblong, fuga- 

 cious, tips rounded. Racemes spiciform, flowering sub- 

 erect or drooping, shortly peduncled, shorter than the 

 leaves, cylindric, dense-fld.; fruiting elongate, pendulous. 

 Bracts shorter than the calyx-tube, ovate-oblong. Flowers 

 sub-sessile, about one-sixth of an inch long, and as broad 

 across the mouth, golden-yellow. Calyx tube campanulate, 

 lobes small, broadly ovate, recurved. ' Petals minute, lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse, erect, shorter than the calyx-lobes. 

 Anthers nearly sessile in the throat of the calyx. Styles 

 short, recurved. Berries pisiform, violet- black, hirsute.— 

 J. D. II. 



fc lg i *' I>ortion of r hachis of raceme, with bracts and flcvers ; 2, flower with 

 half the calyx-tube removed ; 'J and 4, anthers :— All enlarged. 



