EVERGREEN BERBERRIES CULTIVATED IN GREAT BRITAIN. 9 



erect panicled racemes, about 3 inches long. This must certainly 

 be a plant of great value in gardens. 



Messrs. Veitch inform me that it has stood several winters 

 with them at Exeter, but in very severe weather the shoots and 

 young wood have been injured. They regard it as being de- 

 cidedly less hardy than their Wallich's Berberry. 



In the garden of the Horticultural Society it has been kept in 

 a cold frame, the plant being small. 



14. The WHITENED Berberry. 



Berberis dealbata, Lindley,in Bot. Reg., t. 1750. 



Raised by the Horticultural Society from imported seeds about 

 the year 1830. Its exact origin is unknown. The gardener in 

 charge of it asserted that it was Mexican, but Mr. Hartweg 

 stated that he had never seen it wild in Mexico, although he 

 met with it frequently on the mountains of New Granada. This 

 collector produced, however, no evidence of the fact. It is pro- 

 bable, nevertheless, that it really inhabits the same country as 

 B. glauca and B. tomentosa. 



A good-looking shrub, with stout brown branches, scarcely 

 spiny, and undulated leaves of a bluish green on the upper side, 

 and almost white beneath. The latter are generally truncate, 

 with three spiny teeth at the end, and two or three more at the 

 sides, sometimes 2 inches long and 1J wide. In the Botanical 

 Register they are not well represented, being much too small, 

 and not distinctly enough truncate. The flowers appear in April, 

 in short, oblong, very compact drooping yellow racemes. 



The plant in the garden of the Horticultural Society is about 

 4 feet high, and has stood unprotected in the open border for 

 several years ; in severe winters it loses the greater part of its 

 leaves, but in ordinary winters it is quite evergreen. 



15. The WHITE-BACKED Berberry. 



Berberis hypoleuca, Lindley, in Journal of Horticultural 

 Society, vol. ii. p. 246, with a figure. 



Raised in the garden of the Horticultural Society from Nepal 

 seed, presented by Dr. Royle. 



One of the stoutest of the genus, with strong very pale erect 

 branches. The spines are unusually small for the size of the 

 shrub. The leaves are larger than in any other simple-leaved 

 species, sometimes measuring 4 inches in length by 2 in breadth ; 

 they are leathery, strongly netted, dull dark green, and very 

 white underneath ; at the edge they are furnished with coarse 



