8 EVERGREEN BERBERRIES CULTIVATED IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



Flora Peruviana, but the spines are not corky at the base, the 

 racemes are much shorter, the flowers smaller, and the leaves 

 thicker. 



Messrs. Veitch describe this as being undoubtedly hardy, it 

 having stood out two winters. It is an evergreen shrub, from 4 

 to 6 feet high. 



12. The ORANGE-FLOWERED Berberry. 



Berberis Aurahuacensis, Lemaire, in Van Houtte's Flore des 

 Serves, iii. t. 334. 



Said, in the work above quoted, to have been found by M. 

 Linden in Rio Hacha, a province of New Granada, near the 

 village of Aurahuaco-Taquina, in the Sierra Nevada, or Snowy 

 Mountains, at about 9000 feet above the sea, near the snow-line. 



It is described as an elegant shrub, with straight erect 

 branches, and to be distinguished by bearing leaves of two sorts : 

 the lower cordate, slightly enlarged, and angular in the sinus where 

 they are jointed with the petiole, which is very long ; the upper 

 obovate, elliptical, tapering to the base, coriaceous, wavy, with a 

 few marginal spiny teeth near the end, very glaucous beneath. 

 The flowers are in compact racemes, drooping, and very deep 

 yellow. 



The Belgians express a hope that it may be hardy, but they 

 have no experience upon the subject. With us it is likely only 

 to prove sub-evergreen at the most, and rather tender. 



13. JAMIESON'S Berberry. 



Berberis Jamiesoni, Veitch — alias B. glauca, Benth., PL 

 Hartweg, No. 710. 



Found in Peru by Dr. Jamieson of Quito, who sent its seeds to 

 Messrs. Veitch ; I have also seen it in the nursery of Mr. Glen- 

 dinning, who obtained his plants from seeds collected near Santa 

 Martha by Purdie. 



This very beautiful bush has leaves of the deepest green and 

 most lucid surface ; they appear in fascicles, and are nearly 3 

 inches long when full grown ; in form they are oblong, a little 

 narrowed at the base, with a spiny point, and a few spiny tooth- 

 ings on each side, or with scarcely any ; beneath they are pale- 

 green, without a trace of glaucousness. The flowers have not 

 been produced in this country, but in my wild specimens, 

 gathered near Loxa by Hartweg,* they are in close somewhat 



* This is named B. glauca in Mr. Bentham's list of Hartweg's plants, but 

 I take that plant to be quite a different species, of which I have a specimen 

 from Mathews, gathered in Peru, in the province of Chachapoyas. 



