74 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



of many kinds of curry. Can also be used like pumpkins. Mrs. 

 Soutter recommends this fruit especially for jam. Seeds will keep 

 for several years. 



Berberis Asiatica, Roxburgh. 



Himalaya. A Berberry -shrub. Hardy in Christiania [Schue- 

 beler]. One of the best among numerous species with edible 

 berries. Among these may particularly be mentioned B. Lycium 

 (Royle) and B. aristata (De Candolle), which also yield valuable 

 yellow dye-wood [Dr. Rosenthal]. All kinds of Berberry-shrubs 

 must be kept away from cereal fields, as they might become the 

 seat of the Aecidium-state of one of the principal rust-fungs, Puc- 

 cinia graminis. An elaborate article on Berberine has been 

 furnished by Dr. W. H. Perkin in the Journal of the Chemical 

 Society, December, 1890. Some species of Berberis will live on 

 brackish soil 



Berberis buxifolia, Lamarck. 



From Magelhaen's Straits to Chili. This bush according to Dr. 

 Philippj, is the best among the South-American species for berries, 

 which are comparatively large, black, hardly acid, but slightly 

 astringent. In Valdivia and Chiloe they are frequently consumed. 



Berberis Darwinii, Hooker. 



Chiloe and South-Chili. Considered one of the most handsome of 

 shrubs for garden-hedges. Hardy in England, also up to Chris- 

 tiania. Several other evergreen Berberry-shrubs serve the same 

 purpose. 



Berberis Japonica, R. Brown. 



Japan. Bears some frost. The acidulous berries are used for 

 jellies, also for colouring confectionery [Dr. K. Mueller]. 



Berberis Nepalensis, Sprengel. 



Himalayas, at elevations between 4,000 and 8,000 feet. Hardy 

 to lat. 59 55' in Norway [Schuebeler]. The fruit of this evergreen 

 species is edible. The European B. vulgaris L. is excluded here as 

 harboring the Aecidium-state of the Puccinia-"Ru8t." 



Bertholletia excelsa, Humboldt and Bonpland. 



Countries on the Amazon- and Orinoco-Rivers. A large tree. 

 Fruit about a foot in diameter ; the seeds known as Brazil nuts. It 

 succeeds still just outside the tropics in East-Australia, as does also 

 Adansonia Gregorii, but the growth is there slow [J. Edgar]. 



