Berberis 
Darwinil 
62 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
BERBERIOE Ze. 
Henry* from Meikle’s at Folkstone, planted out, 
1862; another in the Vicarage Grove, bought 
from Veitch, planted, 1862. In Henry’s* garden 
at the Cottage, there is a finer one than either. 
This Barberry is a beautiful little shrub, named 
by Sir W. Hooker (its first describer), after 
Charles Darwin, who discovered it in the island of 
Chiloe, on the coast of Southern Chili, and was 
the first to bring home dried specimens. It was 
afterwards found by Mr. Bridges, near Valdivia 
and Osorno, in Chili, in about 40 degrees south 
latitude, a little further North than Chiloe. It 
appears to be hardy and easily cultivated. 
The stem of Berberis Darwinii has somewhat of 
the same arching mode of growth as those of 
Berberis dulcis and vulgaris, but does not grow to 
more than between two and three feet high, the 
younger parts of the stems clothed with brownish 
down; rather densely leafy, with small beautifully 
neat, very glossy, holly-like leaves, of a deep 
bright green, pale at the back, turning red with 
age, each leaf having 4 or 6 prominent. spinous- 
pointed teeth. The flowers, which are produced 
in April, in short thick drooping racemes, are of 
a beautiful orange-yellow, richly stained with red 
on the outside. 
(February 1868.) What I have said above 
* His brother, Colonel Bunbury 
