EVERGREEN BERBERRIES CULTIVATED IN GREAT BRITAIN. 7 



B. Lycium. It differs from B. virgata, whose name it some- 

 times bears, in the form of its leaves, and especially in the flowers 

 being racemose, not solitary. 



It is a true evergreen, perfectly hardy, and rather handsome. 



10. The LOXA Berberry. 



Berberis loxensis, Bentham, PL Hartweg, No. 709. 



Obtained by Messrs. Veitch, through Mr. T. Lobb, from the 

 Peruvian Highlands, near Loxa, where it was also found by 

 Hartweg. 



If it were not for its smaller size and much more diminutive 

 flowers, this would be regarded as a variety of B. Jamiesoni. It 

 has small palmated spines, and very shining, blunt, obovate, 

 bright-green leaves, of nearly the same colour on both sides ; they 

 seem to have in all cases a spiny point, and very often several 

 teeth at the sides. The flowers are unusually small, and stand 

 erect in panicled racemes on a long peduncle quite clear of the 

 leaves. 



Its hardiness is uncertain ; but its beautiful foliage makes it 

 worth some protection if necessary. It stood with Messrs. 

 Veitch unsheltered through last winter. 



11. The WAVY Berberry. 



Berberis undulata.* 



From the mountains of Peru, where Mr. T. Lobb collected it 

 for Messrs. Veitch, near the village of Andagles, at the eleva- 

 tion of 1 2,000 feet. 



In a young state, as now with Messrs. Veitch, this has 

 slender branches, and weak palmated spines. The leaves are 

 dull green, scarcely glaucous, oblong, tapering to the base, 

 remarkably wavy, and furnished with a few spiny distant teeth, 

 without any distinct trace of netted veins. The flowers have not 

 yet appeared. 



In a wild state, as in Mr. Lobb's specimens, now before me, 

 it is a stout stiff bush, with three-parted or five-parted spines, 

 sometimes as much as 1£ inch long. The leaves are thick, 

 narrower than in the cultivated plant, but still preserve their 

 undulated appearance. The flowers appear in small roundish, 

 nearly sessile racemes, which are scarcely so long as the leaves. 

 In this state it is not unlike the figure of B. fiexuosa in the 



* B. undulata ; sempervirens, rigida, spinis 3-5-partitis, foliis fasciculatis 

 coriaceis undulatis opacis mucronatis nunc spinoso-dentatis oblongo-lanceo- 

 latis vix reticularis, racemis erectis subsessilibus folio brevioribus. 



