72 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



40139 to 40201— Continued. 



becoming gray the second season. Ordinarily it is deciduous, but 

 young plants or vigorous sucker growths will retain their foliage 

 through the winter. Leaves 3 to 7 in a tuft, 1£ inches long in each 

 tuft, obovate, green on both sides, or often whitish beneath ; always 

 spine tipped, but varying from few or numerous teeth on the margins 

 to none at all. Each tuft of leaves springs from a single or triple 

 spine, sometimes 1J inches long, and produces one drooping raceme 

 2 to 3 inches long. Flowers numerous, bright golden yellow. Berries 

 spindle shaped or oblong, up to one-half inch long, red, covered with 

 blue- white bloom. 



'• Native of the Himalayas, and represented by a great number of 

 slightly varying forms, all of which are valuable garden plants. 

 Of all deciduous barberries this is the strongest growing ; it is also 

 one of the most ornamental. It is an admirable shrub on a spacious 

 lawn, almost as striking when loaded with its fine trusses of blue- 

 white berries as when it is in bloom. So well adapted to our climate 

 is it that it has been found wild in English hedgerows, having 

 grown there, no doubt, from seeds deposited by birds." (W. J. Bean, 

 Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 1, p. 235-236.) 



40145. Berberis concinna Hook. f. 



See S. P. I. Nos. 27117 and 33018 for previous introductions. 



"The seeds (of the original collection) were gathered from small 

 bushes growing in the Lachen Valley of the Sikkim Himalayas, at an 

 elevation of 12,000 to 13,000 feet ; it there formed a small, low bush, 

 1 to 3 feet high, with spreading almost prostrate branches, thickly 

 covered with small leaves of a deep-green hue and polished above, 

 snowy white and glaucous below ; these colors, the large oblong 

 scarlet berries, and red branchlets giving the shrub a singularly neat 

 and pretty appearance when in fruit." (Hooker. In Curtis's Bo- 

 tanical Magazine, pi. -J7-J'/, 1853.) 



"A low, deciduous bush, 3 feet high, of close, compact habit, 

 branches furrowed. Leaves lustrous green above, white beneath, 

 obovate, 1 inch or less long, tapering at the base to a short stalk, 

 the midrib ending in a tuft of leaves. Flowers solitary, on a slender 

 stalk 1 to 1$ inches long, pendent, globose, deep yellow, one-half 

 inch across. Berries oblong, fleshy, red, one-half to three-fourths 

 inch long. 



" Native of the Sikkim Himalayas, at 12,000 to 13,000 feet ; intro- 

 duced to Kew by Sir Joseph Hooker about 1S50. A very pretty 

 barberry, and distinct through the vivid whiteness of the under 

 surface of the leaves. It is best propagated by seeds, which it pro- 

 duces most seasons." (IV. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the 

 British Isles, vol. 1, p. 238.) 



40146. Berberis diaphana Maxim. 



Scarlet-fruited, yellow-flowered bush, 1 to 2 meters high, from 

 western Szechwan, China, nearly related to B. macrosepala of the 

 Sikkim Himalayas, which has puberulous branchlets and is not 

 found in China, and to B. yunnanensis, which has thinner, mostly 

 entire, leaves, three to eight flowered, often rather elongated inflores- 

 cences, and only three to four ovules and seeds. This barberry may 

 be distinguished by its chartaceous leaves, distinctly reticulate on 





