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Berberis (Nearly species have been)

Nearly 100 species have been described as such, but not more than fifty are botanically distinct; about fifteen are Asiatic, one is found in Europe and North America, and the rest inhabit the mountainous parts of America, from Oregon to Tierra del Fuego. To the species described on pp. 181-2, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

B. congestiflora hakeoides (crowded-flowered, Hakea-like). fl. golden-yellow, in dense, globose, simple or compound heads 1/2in. to 3/4in. in diameter, which are sessile or pedunculate. Early spring. l. 1in. to 2in. long, almost imbricating, sessile or shortly petiolate, orbicular or very broadly oblong, thickly coriaceous, rigidly spinous-toothed, rounded or cordate at base. h. 6ft. to 7ft. Chili, 1861. A stout bush. (B. M. 6770.) B. nepalensis Bealei (Beale's). A remarkably handsome, Chinese form, with grand spikes of closely-packed flowers. 1887. (G. C. ser. iii., vol. i., p. 608.) B. Thunbergii (Thunberg's). fl. numerous, small, 1/4in. to 1/3in. across, drooping; sepals red, half as long as the petals, which are pale straw-coloured, suffused with red. April. l. in crowded tufts all along the branches, 1/2in. to nearly 1in. long, obovate or spathulate, entire. Spines straight, 1/2in. long. Japan, 1883. A low bush. (B. M. 6646.)