TREES AND SHRUBS EVERGREEN 



on slender deep-red pedicels, usually in pairs, in the axils of the upper 

 leaves arranged in drooping terminal racemes, of a thick consistence with 

 a shining surface. 



Unfortunately not perfectly hardy, there are in the south-west corner of 

 England fine examples growing in the open. 



BEEBEEIS ACUMINATA, Franch. 



Plantae Delavayanse, t. 38. 



This fine evergreen species was first made known through Pere Delavay, 

 who collected it in Central China in 1882. 



In 1900 seeds were sent from the same locality, and plants raised 

 flowered at Coombe Wood in 1904. 



The foliage is distinct and handsome, 5 to 6 in. long, narrow, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, with spiny margins : the young wood bright red. 



The flowers in the axils of the uppermost leaves are large for a 

 Berberis, creamy yellow in colour, on slender peduncles. 



BEEBEEIS CONGESTIPLOEA, Gay, var. HAKEOIDES, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6770 ; Gard. Chron. 1901, vol. xxix. p. 295, fig. 



This striking plant is quite unlike any other Barberry in cultivation. 



It forms a large bush of decurved branches loaded with globose 

 masses of yellow flower, sessile in the axils of the leaves and along the 

 leafless terminations of the branches. 



It was introduced from the Cordillera of Chile through Eichard Pearce 

 in 1861, and flowers annually at Coombe Wood. 



BEEBEEIS DAEWINII, Hook. 



Moore in Gard. Mag. Bot. 1851, p. 129, fig. ; Paxt. Fl. Gdn. 1851, t. 4-6; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 4590 ; Fl. des Serres, torn. vii. p. 47 ; Gard. Chron. 1851, p. 167 ; id. 1884, 

 vol. xxi. p. 452. 



First discovered by the celebrated Charles Darwin, and named in 

 compliment to him. 



Probably the best known, if not the most beautiful, of all the species of 

 Berberis at present in cultivation, introduced by William Lobb in 1849 

 from Chiloe, an island off the south coast of Chili. 



The neat glossy foliage and rich golden-yellow flowers beautifully tinged 

 with red are borne in dense profusion in early spring. A writer in the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle (I.e. supra) states : " If Messrs. Veitch had done 

 nothing else towards beautifying our gardens, the introduction of this 

 single species would be enough to earn the gratitude of the whole 

 gardening world." 



It is further interesting as one of the parents of B. x stenophylla, a 

 very widely grown garden hybrid. 



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