BERBERIDE^E. I. BERBERIS. II. MAHONIA. 



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ovate, mucronate, entire ; racemes simple, pendulous. Tj . S. 

 Native of Brazil. 



Laurel-like Barberry. Shrub 4 to 8 feet. 



2. Leaves simple. Pedicels \-flowered. 



30 B. WALLICHIA'NA (D. C. prod. 1. p. 107.) spines 3-parted ; 

 leaves elliptical-oblong, acuminated at both ends, very smooth, 

 rigid, coriaceous, spinosely-serrated, green and shining on both 

 surfaces; pedicels club-shaped, 10-15, aggregate, 1-flowered; 

 berries oval, fj . G. Native of Nipaul. 



Wallich's Barberry. Fl. 2 Clt. 1820. Shrub 4 to 8 feet. 



31 B. TOMENTO'SA (Ruiz, et Pav. fl. per. 3. p. 52. t. 282. 6.) 

 spines none ; leaves oval, under surface densely tomentose, entire 

 or with a few spiny-teeth ; pedicels 1-3, 1-flowered, slender, 

 fj . G. Native of Chili about Conception. Flowers 6-petalled, 

 about the size of those of B. vulgaris. Berries oval, 2-3-seeded, 

 beaked with the pedicellate stigma. 



Woolly-leaved Barberry. Fl. May, July. Shrub 8 feet. 



32 B. LUTEA (Ruiz, et Pav. fl. per. 3. p. 51. t. 280.) spines 

 none ; leaves obovate, mucronate, and tricuspidate ; branchlets 

 rather pubescent ; pedicels many, 1-flowered, somewhat shorter 

 than the leaves. ^ . H. Native of Peru on wooded rocks in 

 the Andes in cold situations. The wood is hard and made 

 into utensils, it also yields a yellow colour which is used for 

 dying cloth. 



Yellow-dye Barberry. Fl. Nov. to June. Shrub 4 feet. 



33 B. CONFE'RTA (H. B. et Kth. nov. spec. amer. 5. p. 69. 

 t. 430.) leaves smaller than in any of the other species, entire, 

 terminated by a spine, and furnished with a small spine on each 

 side, but many of them bear 2 or 3 small spines on each side, 

 fj . S. Native of South America between Caxamarca and the 

 river Magdalena. B. lutea, var. ft, D. C. syst. 2'. p. 14. 



Crowded-leaved Barberry. Fl. Nov. to June. Shrub 4 feet. 



34 B. INE'RMIS (Pers. ench. l.p. 387.) spines none; leaves 

 elliptic, quite entire, smooth, scarcely mucronulate ; pedicels 

 solitary, 1-flowered, longer than the leaves. J? . H. Native of 

 the Straits of Magellan at Bougainville Bay. Ovaries ovate, 

 crowned by the stigma. 



Unarmed Barberry. Fl. Dec. Shrub 4 feet. 



35 B. BUXIFOLIA (Lam. ill. t. 253. f. 3.) spines 3-parted; 

 leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, smooth, quite entire ; pedicels 

 longer than the leaves, either solitary, 1-flowered, or in threes, 

 rising from a short peduncle. ^ . H. Native of the Straits of 

 Magellan at the bottom of the Boucaut Bay . A small twisted 

 shrub. Berries blueish-purple, 4-seeded. 



Var. ft, microphylla (Forst. in comm. goett. 9. p. 29.) pe- 

 duncles 3, 1-flowered. Native of Terra del Fuego in the fis- 

 sures of rocks. 



Box-leaved Barberry. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



36 B. EMPETRIFO^LIA (Lam. ill. t. 253. f. 4.) spines 3-parted ; 

 leaves linear, quite entire, with revolute margins ; pedicels 1-2, 

 1-flowered. Tj . H. Native of the Straits of Magellan in sub- 

 alpine woods, frequent. A small shrub. Pedicels rising from 

 the branchlets between the leaves. 



Empetrum-leaved Barberry. Fl. Dec. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



37 B. CUNEA'TA (D. C. syst. 2. p. 16.) spines 3-parted, 

 hardly longer than the leaves ; leaves obovate-cuneate, spinosely- 

 trifid, smooth ; pedicels solitary, 1-flowered, nearly equal in 

 length with the leaves. Jj . G. Native of South America about 

 Port Desideratum. Allied to B. heterophylla. Flowers about 

 the size of those of B. vulgaris. Berries obovate, somewhat 

 globose, of an intense bluish-purple colour, crowned by the 

 sessile stigma. 



Wedge-leaved Barberry. Shrub 4-6 feet. 



38 B. HETEROPHY'LLA (Juss. in Poir. diet. 8. p. 622.) spines 

 3-parted ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, some of them en- 

 tire, others furnished with 3 pungent teeth; pedicels solitary, 1- 

 flowered, hardly longer than the leaves ; filaments toothed. Tj . H. 

 Native of the Straits of Magellan. Hook. exot. fl. t. 14. Allied 

 to B. ruscifolia, but abundantly distinct in the pedicels being 

 1-flowered. Berries roundish, 4-seeded, purplish- blue, about 

 the size of a pea, and crowned by the sessile stigma. 



Variable-leaved Barberry. Fl. May, June. Clt. 1820. Shrub 

 4 to 6 feet. 



39 B. VIRGATA (Ruiz, et Pav. fl. per. 51. t. 281. f. B.) spines 

 small or none ; leaves obovate, entire, or spinosely-toothed at 

 the apex, smooth ; pedicels solitary, 1-flowered, length of leaves. 

 fy . S. Native of Peru in woods. An erect, much branched, 

 smooth shrub. Berries small, oblong-ovate. Seed brown. 

 Allied to B. lutea. 



Twiggy Barberry. Fl. Dec. to Feb. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



40 B. SIBI'RICA (Pall. fl. ross. 2. p. 42. t. 67. itin. app. no. 

 108. t. P. f. 2. ed. gall. 3. p. 211. t. 13. f. 2.) spines 3-7- 

 parted ; leaves lanceolate-obovate, ciliately-serrated ; peduncles 

 1-flowered, shorter than the leaves. Jj . H. Native of Siberia, 

 Altaia, and Dauria, among rocks. Flowers very like those of 

 B. vulgaris. The berries, according to Pallas, are obovate and 

 red. 



Siberian Barberry. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1790. Shrub 1 to 2 ft. 



41 B. ATROVIRENS (Wall, mss.) spines 3-parted, long, equal; 

 leaves lanceolate, tapering to both ends, spiny-ciliated, acute, 

 rusty on the under surface ; pedicels aggregate, 1-flowered, 

 rising from the heart of the fascicle of leaves. Tj . H. Native 

 of Nipaul. 



Dark-green-leaved Barberry. Shrub 10 feet. 



Species not sufficiently known, but distinct, from the leaves 

 being abruptly pinnate, and with their petioles ending in a spine 

 at the apex. 



42 B. TRAGACANTHOIDES (D. C. syst. 2. p. 18.) spines 3- 

 parted, small ; leaves with 1 -2 pair of leaflets, crowded in the 

 axillae ; petioles spiny at the apex, fy . H. Native of Russia 

 along the banks of the river Cur near Tiflis. A species allied 

 to B. Cretica and B. Sibirica. 



Tragacantha-like Barberry. Shrub 1 foot. 



43 B. CARAGAN;EFOILIA (D. C. syst. 2. p. 18.) the primordial 

 leaves bearing at the base two stipulary spines, with the top of 

 their petioles ending in a spine ; leaflets 2-pairs. Tj . G. Native 

 of China in the province of Shantong. Leaflets 2-pairs, inserted 

 at the top of petiole beneath the spinescent part. 



Caragana-leaved Barberry. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



Cult. The commoner sorts of this genus will do well in any 

 kind of garden soil, but the rarer, species will require to be 

 grown in a mixture of loam and peat, mixed with a little sand ; 

 they may be either propagated by suckers or layers which should 

 be put down in the autumn, when the leaves have fallen, and 

 ripened cuttings planted at the same time will strike root, or 

 they may be increased by seeds, which is the most general 

 method, sown either in the autumn or spring. The stove species, 

 or those sorts natives of warm climates, do not require so much 

 heat as other stove plants, and the green-house kinds may be 

 easily preserved in a frame. 



II. MAHO'NIA (in honour of Bernard Me Mahon of Phila- 

 delphia, a lover of botanical science.) Nutt. gen. amer. 1. no. 

 307. D. C. syst. 2. p. 18. prod. 1. p. 108. Adostemon, Raf. 

 amer. monthl. mag. 1819. p. 192. 



