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bark. The leaves clustered, and of two kinds; the old ones 
terminated with a sharp spinose point, and having a 
lateral spinule on each side, above the middle, and the 
younger ones being pale green, unarmed, and having their 
margins entire and softish. The old leaves are also quite 
rigid, dark green, and shining. The flowers are solitary, 
about the size of a pea, and of an orange-yellow colour. 
(Exot. Fi., i. t. 14.) Dr. Hooker also observes, that this 
species “ departs from the generic character of De Can- 
dolle, inasmuch as the calyx has no scales at its base, nor 
are the filaments destitute of teeth, for there are two most 
distinct ones just beneath the anther.” This shrub is a 
natiye of the Straits of Magellan, where it was discovered 
by Commerson ; but when, and by whom, it was introduced 
in our gardens, Dr. Hooker informs us,is not known. Ac- 
cording to Dr. Lindley, it is “ an inelegant bush, about 3 ft. high, bare of 
leaves, and having nothing but its rarity to recommend it.” It is the 
B, ilicifolia of English gardens. 
g 11. B. empetriro‘L1A Lam. The Empetrum-leaved Berberry. 
Identiyication, Lam. 11., t. 253. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 107.; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 117,; Pen. Cyc., 4. p. 261. 
Engraving. Lam, Ill., t. 253. fig. 4, 
Spec. Char., &c, Spines 3-parted. Leaves linear, quite entire, with revolute mar- 
gins. Pedicels 1—2, 1-flowered. (Don’s Mill.,i. p. 117.) According to Dr, 
Lindley, the leaves are collected in bundles in the axils of the spines, and 
the pedicels of the flowers are about as long as the leaves. “ A very curious 
and pretty plant, found wild from the Cordilleras of Chili to the southern 
point of the American Continent, in subalpine woods. In general aspect it 
is much more like a heath than a berberry, seldom exceeding 2 ft. in 
height. It has been some years in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, and 
is in Young’s Nursery at Epsom, and in the Fulham Nursery, but is to be 
found in few others. It flowers in December, and is said, in Sweet’s Brit. Fl. 
Gard., 2d series, t. 100., to haye flowered at Low’s Nursery, Clapton. 
D. Leaves leathery, evergreen or sub-evergreen. Flowers in Racemes, 
% 12. B, rLoripu’NDA Wall, The many-flowered Berberry. 
Identification, Wall. MSS.; Don’s Mill., 1. p.115.; Pen. Cyc., 4. p. 261. 
Synonymes. ‘* Out of accidental variations of this species, and its mode of leafing and flowering, 
the spurious species called B. affinis and B. ceratophylla havebeen constituted. By Dr. Wallich, 
in his distribution of the herbarium of the East India Company, JB. floribanda has been mistaken 
for B. aristata,” (Pen. Cyc., 4, p. 261.) 
Spec. Char., §c, _ Spines 3-parted and very stiff. Leaves oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, nearly entire, or toothed in various degrees, sometimes very deeply 
and coarsely veined; flowers in long, loose, slender racemes. (Pen. Cyc., 
iv. p. 261.) This species is supposed to grow about 10 ft. high in Nepal, 
and, as Dr. Lindley observes, is, “ apparently, extremely common in the 
whole of the north of India, where it forms a tall bush, varying consider- 
ably in the form and size of the leaves, and in the degree in which they are 
toothed, but always well marked by its slender, pendulous, or erect racemes 
of flowers, which are much Jonger than the leaves, and in no degree 
corymbose. It is to be found occasionally in the more choice collections 
in this country.” (Pen. Cyc., iv. p. 261.) 
gw 13. B. asta’tica Roxb. The Asiatic Berberry, 
Identification. Roxb. in Dee. Syst, 2. p. 13.; Dec. Prod.,1. p. 107.; Don’s Mill. 1. p. 116.; Pen. 
Cyc., 4. p. 261. i 
Synonymes. B. tinctdria Lech. ; the Raisin Berberry Pen. Cyc. 
Engraving. Deless, Icon. sel., 2. t. 1. ‘ if “4 “ 
Spec. Char., §c. Spines trifid, or simple. Leaves oval, cuneated or elliptical, 
mucronate, smooth, under surface glaucous, entire or spinulosely toothed, 
