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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. FL, 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 

 native 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. zlicifolia of English gardens. 



at 11. B. MPETRIFO V LIA Lam. The Empetrum-leaved Berberry. 



Identification. Lam. 111., t. 253. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 107. ; Don's Mill, 1. p. 117. ; Pen. Cyc., 4. p. 261. 

 Engraving. Lam. 111., t. 25o. fig. 4. 



Spec. Char., fyc. 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 Swcefs Brit. Fl.- 

 Gard., 2d series, t. 100., to have flowered at Low's Nursery, Clapton. 



D. Leaves leathery, evergreen or sub-evergreen. Flowers in Racemes. 

 st 12. B. FLORIBU'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. afTlnis and B. ceratophy"lla havebeen constituted. By Dr. Wallich, 

 in his distribution of the herbarium of the East India Company, B. fioribunda has been mistaken 

 lor B. arist&ta." (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. y 

 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 longer 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.) 



& 13. B. ASIA'TICA Roxb. The Asiatic Berberry. 



Identification. Roxb. in Dec. Syst, 2. p. 13.; Dec. Prod.,1. p. 107.; Don's Mill., 1. p. 116.; Pen. 



Cyc., 4. p. 261. 



Kynonymes. B. tinctbria Lech. ; the Raisin Berberry Pen. Cyc. 

 Engraving. Deless. Icon, sel., 2. t. 1. 



Spec. Char., ^-c. Spines triful, or simple. Leaves oval, cuncated or elliptical, 

 mucronate, smooth, under surface glaucous, entire or spinuloscly toothed. 



