one raised from seed collected by Mr. E. H. Wilson sent 
to Kew in 1909 from the Arnold Arboretum. The seed 
in both instances came from Western China; the precise 
locality is not known in either case. The long arching 
shoots, which are produced annually, impart to our 
plant a free and graceful habit; its being practically 
an evergreen affords an additional merit; it attains 
its greatest beauty in the fruiting condition, in October 
and November, later in the year perhaps than is the case 
with any other Barbery. It likes a good loamy soil and 
a sunny position; the abundant seeds render its propa- 
gation easy. How far the differences between the three 
plants with dull-grey foliage above alluded to may be 
Specific seems open to doubt. In a recent communica- 
tion Dr. Schneider has suggested that possibly both 
of the forms described by him as distinct may be 
varieties of the species described by Mr. Hemsley. 
While there is much to favour this view, the fact remains 
that B. Wilsonae, Hemsl., is readily distinguished by its 
downy twigs from the two plants described by Dr. 
Schneider, in both of which the twigs are devoid of 
hairs; of these two, B. Stapjfiana differs further from 
B. Wilsonae as regards the form of its ripe fruits. 
Description.—Shrub, about 5 ft. high; stem long, branches arching, 
ridged; twigs glabrous, tawny-purplish, finely pustulate or smooth; spines 
3-partite from the base, slender, very acute, tawny-straw-coloured, distinctly 
channelled beneath, 2-3 in. long, the lateral diverging from the main spine at a 
right angle. Leaves in clusters of 4-8, falling late, so that the plant is almost 
evergreen, linear-oblanceolate, usually sharply mucronate, narrowed below into 
a short petiole, entire or rarely 2-3-toothed, 4-1} in. long, 3—} in. wide, firmly 
chartaceous, glabrous, conspicuously reticulate especially on the green uppér 
surface, below somewhat pruinose and papillose. Inflorescences of short 
clustered racemes, considerably shorter than the leaves, 4—7-flowered ; pedicels 
 abyreges 79-6 in. long, beset at the base with small wide-ovate acute coriaceous 
racts. Flowers yellow, depressed-globose, about } in. across. Sepals: outer 
ovate-orbicular, with rounded tips; inner orbicular, 3-1 in, wide, 6-nerved, 
much larger than the outer. Petals obovate, } in. long, about =}; in. wide, 
narrowed to the base and there 2-glandular. Stamens shorter than the petals, 
with a somewhat bluntly produced connective. Ovary as long as the stamens, 
crowned by an almost flat orbicular stigma. Fruit wide ellipsoid, crimson and 
aie a about 3 in. long including the persistent, shortly stipitate, 
stigma. 
Tas. 8701.—Fig. 1, a leaf of unusual type, showing marginal teeth; 2, flower- 
bud; 3, a flower, fully open; 4, petal and stamen ; 5, petal; 6, pistil; 7, fruit 
and bracts :—all enlarged. 
