EVERGREEN BERBERRIES CULTIVATED IN GREAT BRITAIN. 5 



The species is in foliage extremely like an undescribed Boli- 

 vian plant, found by Bridges, and preserved in my Herbarium ; 

 but its flowers are totally different.* 



6. The BAGGED Berberry. 



Berberis heterophylla, Jussieu. Hooker, Exot. FL, t. 14 

 — alias B. ilicifolia of many Gardens. 

 Said to be a native of the Straits of Magellan, on the authority 

 of the French botanist Commerson ; I have, however, seen 

 no wild specimens of it. 



It is a straggling, inelegant, hardy, evergreen bush, sparingly 

 covered by holly-like, narrow leaves, and long, stout, 3- 

 parted spines. The flowers grow singly from among the leaves. 



It is a species of no beauty, and undeserving cultivation. The 

 common garden name of it belongs to another and very fine 

 species. 



II. Leaves simple. Flowers in racemes or panicles. 



7. The ILEX-LEAVED Berberry. 



Berberis ilicifolia. Forst., Comment. 9, 28. J. Hooker, 

 Fl. Antarct. ii. .230, t. 86. Bot. Mag. t. 4308— alias 

 B. lagenaria, Poiret. 



Wild in Tierra del Fuego and the Straits of Magellan. 



This very rare shrub is described by Dr. Joseph Hooker as 

 being a straggling bush about 8 feet high, and the handsomest 

 species of the genus. I only know it from the figures published 

 in the works above quoted, from which we learn that it has 

 bright glossy holly-leaved foliage, large clusters of fine orange- 

 coloured flowers, and berries of a deep steel blue tint. The 

 leaves are described by Sir W. Hooker as being " obovate, 

 petiolate, acute, coriaceous, dark shining green, especially above, 

 pale beneath ; the margin coarsely and distantly serrated, and 

 each serrature armed with a distinct spur." 



The plant which flowered at Kew is unfortunately dead, and 



* As this plant probably exists in some English garden, Mr. Bridges' 

 seeds having been much dispersed, it seems desirable to give it a name ; and 

 therefore I would thus define it: — 



B. ciliaris ; sempervirens, inermis (?), foliis fasciculatis oblongo-lanceolatis 

 alte reticulatis ciliato-spinosis utrinque concoloribus, racemis subcorymbosis 

 compactis erectis foliorum longitudine. bracteis pungentibus, sepalis peta- 

 lisque elongatis. Bolivia ; Bridges. 



