30 BRerberidee—BLerberis. 
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 vlossy 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. Kivightit, couciune, Chinénsis, ete., are less widely grown 
species of this group. 
§ 2. Leaves pirate, persistent (Mahoni). 
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 Nurth 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. nervisa.—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. Béalti.—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 
