As a shrub for gardens B. Beaniana promises to be one 
of the most attractive of the many new Chinese bar- 
berys, especially as an ornamental fruit-bearer. It is 
evidently quite hardy; its flowers are of a rich deep 
yellow, and its fruits are of a fine purple and very 
plentiful. The seed it produces so copiously ought soon 
to give plants sufficient to make it wide-spread in 
gardens, 
Descriprion,—Shrub, ultimately 8-10 ft. high, of erect rather dense habit ; 
young shoots reddish-brown, glabrous, obscurely angled, armed with slender 
trifid spines 4-1 in, long and grooved on the underside; nodes 1-1} in. apart. 
Leaves deciduous, glabrous, fasciculate, 5-8 in a fascicle, elliptic-lanceolate, 
acute, spine-tipped, cuneate at the base, margins sometimes entire, but usually 
serrate and with from 2-12 spiny teeth at each side, dark green above, rather 
glaucous beneath, 3-2 in, long, 4-} in. wide. Flowers rich yellow, } in. wide, 
produced in June ten to twenty together from the leaf axils in corymbose 
Tas. 8781.—Fig. 1, flower-bud 3 2, flower; 3, petal, seen from within, and 
stamen ; 4 and 5, stamens; 6, pistil :—all enlarged. 
