FROM THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN. '231 



from its appearance there is reason to believe that it may stand 

 out of doors against a wall. It grows freely in rough sandy peat 

 under pot culture, but will probably succeed in common garden 

 soil. It strikes freely from cuttings in silver-sand under a bell- 

 glass without much heat. 



Although it makes no show in a greenhouse, yet should it 

 prove hardy, its neat foliage and sweet-scented flowers will 

 render it a desirable plant for a conservative wall. 



May 15, 1846. 



31. Berberis Fortuni.* 

 Gardens North of China, Mr. Fortune. 



At present we know of but one pinnated Berberry from the 

 North-east of Asia, a plant called by Thunberg an Ilex, and re- 

 duced to the false genus Mahonia by De Candolle. Mr. Fortune 

 has added another, which seems to be quite unlike the B. japo- 

 nica in the form of its leaflets, for Thunberg describes them 

 in the latter as being ovate and but an inch and half long, 

 whereas in this they are narrowly lanceolate, and fully 4 inches 

 long. It is obvious also that the details of the inflorescence of 

 the two are very different. 



This species forms a deep green smooth bush, with from 3 to 

 4 pairs of leaflets, and an odd one to each leaf. The leaflets 

 are about 4 inches long, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, with 

 shallow distinct spiny serratures. The veins are scarcely visible 

 on the upper side, and very slightly prominent on the under. 



As the plant only readied the Garden in April last, no 

 flowers have been seen ; but it appears from Mr. Fortune's dried 

 specimens, that they appear in terminal panicled racemes less 

 than half the length of the leaflets. The flowers are small, 

 closely arranged, and of a yellow colour. 



There is reason to suppose that this fine shrub will prove to 

 be a hardy evergreen. It evidently will grow in any good rich, 

 light, dry, loamy soil, and will be increased by cuttings of the 

 ripened wood, treated in the ordinary way, and struck in a moist 

 temperature. Should it prove hardy, it will be an important 

 addition to our shrubberies. 



May 30, 1846. 



Mr. Fortune has furnished the following memorandum con- 

 cerning it : — 



* B. Fortuni ; glaberrima, ati'ovh-idis, foliis pinnatis 3-4-jugis cum impari, 

 foliolis lineari-lanceolatis distanter spinoso-serratis acutissimis, racemo 

 paniculato foliis multo breviore ramis lateralibus patulis densifloris. 



