4 EVERGREEN BERBERRIES CULTIVATED IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



In its wild stations this is said to be an evergreen bush as 

 much as 1 8 feet high ; it has, however, all the appearance 

 of being much smaller, The branches are downy, and thickly- 

 covered with small leaves, the size and colour of B. Darwinii; 

 oblong, with three or more spiny teeth when young, perfectly 

 undivided, narrower, and mucronate in old plants. The spines 

 are small and slightly 3-parted. The flowers grow in fas- 

 cicles from among the leaves, on slightly downy footstalks. 



It has stood out during two winters with Messrs. Veitch. It 

 is a very pretty little species, and, if hardy, will almost rank 

 with B. Darwinii, from which it differs in its flowers not being 

 in racemes. 



With the same habit as this, Messrs. Veitch have two other 

 alpine Peruvian Berberries — their Nos. 264 and 340 ; but 

 whether they are varieties of B. lutea or of B. virgata, or new 

 species, it is impossible to determine until they acquire greater age. 



5. WALLICH'S Berberry. 



Berberis Wallichiana, Decand., Prodr., i. 107. Wallich, 

 PL As. Rarior., iii. p. 23, t. 243 — alias B. macrophylla 

 of the Gardens — alias B. atrovirens, Do?i's Dictionary 

 of Gardening, i. 117. 



A native of the mountains of Java, where it was obtained for 

 Messrs. Veitch by Mr. Thomas Lobb, at the elevation of 

 9000 feet above the sea. Also found on the mountain Sheopur, 

 in Nepal, by Dr. Wallich's collectors. 



An evergreen of most beautiful aspect, with brown branches, 

 a very dark green, dense foliage, and long, slender, 3-parted 

 spines. The leaves grow in clusters, are about 3 or 4 

 inches long, with a sharp, prickly point, and numerous fine serra- 

 tures, ending in a straight point on each side : on the upper side 

 they are a rich bright green, turning to a claret colour in the 

 autumn, and remarkably netted ; on the under side they are pale 

 green and shining. 



I learn from Messrs. Veitch that it has stood with them 

 through three winters without shelter, and is now 4 or 5 

 feet high. Naturally it is said to grow 10 feet high. In the 

 Garden of the Society, to which it was presented by Messrs. 

 Veitch, it has been kept in a cold frame. 



The flowers have not been borne by the cultivated plants. 

 Dr. Wallich describes them as growing on footstalks, clustered 

 in a round dense fascicle, and pale yellow. 



As it is a Java plant, it may be the B. xanthoxylon men- 

 tioned, but not described, in Hasskarl's 6 Hortus Bogoriensis.' If 

 so, that name must give way to Dr. Wallich's. 



