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(Fig. 4.) 
Flowers not jet produced 
16. Berbekis Dakwimi. Hooker. From Chiioe and 
Patagonia. A hardy evergreen bush, of great beauty, 
imported by Messrs 
in England. 
An evergreen shrub 3 to 5 feet high, of extraordinary beauty, 
conspicuous for its ferruginous shoots, by which it is at once recog- 
nised. The leaves are of the deepest green, shining as if polished, 
not more than f inch long, pale green, with the principal veins con- 
spicuous on the under side, with three large spiny teeth at the end, 
and about one (or two) more on each side near the middle. 
Although small, the leaves are placed so near together that the 
branches themselves are concealed. The flowers are in erect 
racemes, and of a deep orange yellow. Mr. Yeitch informs n>e 
that tins plant appears to be decidedly hardy ; as is probable, 
considering that it grows natnrnllv n^r fVio cumm^*. l™;**. ~e 
tains 
Joiirn. I/ort. Soc, Vol. v., p. 6. 
17. Berberis tixctoria. Leschenault. An Indian 
sub-evergreen shrub, apparently hardy. Has not yet 
flowered in England. (Fig. 5.) 
The plants in 
shrubs, 
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small slender spines, usually 3- 
parted. The leaves are thin, not 
shining, dull green above, glaucous 
beneath, oblong, blunt, with a spiny 
point, but scarcely spiny -toothed, 
except on the seedling plant. The 
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flowers have not hitherto appeared. 
They are. represented by Dr. Wight 
as standing erect in loose racemes 
scarcely longer than the leaves, and 
succeeded by an abundance of dttU 
red fruit — Journ. Hort. 8oc.,VoL v., 
p. 1 3. At the lower part of Bg. 5 are 
represented the early leaves of this 
species, which are cordate and long- 
stalked, and quite different from the 
later leaves. 
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