30 Berberidece Berber is. 



yellow, terminal, few, sub-umbellate, on slender pedicels. A 

 native of the extreme South of America ; very hardy, often 

 flowering both in Spring and Autumn. B. stenophylla is said 

 to be a hybrid between this species and B. Darwinii. It 

 has narrow mucronate leaves and a profusion of pretty yellow 

 flowers followed by dark-purple berries. 



6. B. ilicifolia. A very handsome branching spiny evergreen 

 shrub. Leaves petiolate, oblong, narrowed at the base, thick 

 and glossy and beset with spiny teeth. Flowers large, orange 

 tinged with red, from 4 to 6 together in short racemes. This 

 species appears to be very rare in collections, but we give it 

 a place here on account of its great beauty. It is a native of 

 the extreme South of America. 



B. Knightii, concinna, Chinensis, etc., are less widely grown 

 species of this group. 



2. Leaves pinnate, persistent (Mahonia). 



7. B. aquifolia, syn. Mahonia aquifolia. This is the 

 common species of this section. A bush about 6 feet high, with 

 creeping suckers. Leaves 7 to 8 inches long, of about 7 ovate- 

 lanceolate remotely spiny-toothed glabrous glossy green slightly 

 coriaceous leaflets. Leaflets 2 to 3 inches long, rounded at 

 the base, acute at the apex, with minutely reticulated vena- 

 tion, lowest pair about 2 inches from the base of the petiole. 

 Flowers yellow, in clusters of terminal racemes, appearing in 

 Spring. Native of North America. 



B. repens (fig. 23). Is probably a variety of the last, with 

 trailing or procumbent stems. Also from North America. 



8. B. glumacea, syn. B. nervosa. A very dwarf slow- 

 growing shrub, resembling in a great measure the preceding. 

 Leaves tinged with red in autumn, about a foot long, of about 

 13 narrowly lanceolate coriaceous glabrous leaflets with remote 

 rigid spiny teeth. Venation of the leaflets elevated, distant, 

 anastomosing with intermediate free veinlets, lower pairs about 

 4 inches from the base of the petiole. Flowers yellow tinged 

 with red, in terminal clusters of racemes emerging from, 

 linear pointed glume-like bracts. A native of North-west 

 America, flowering in Spring. 



9. B. Bealii. A very distinct species with erect unbranched 

 stems and leaves about a foot long. Leaflets usually 9, very 

 coriaceous, about 3 inches long, quite sessile, broadly cordate 

 or rotundate at the base, irregular in outline, oblique, with 



