Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

southern species of the genus, of the leaves, which are very
small, being deciduous, and the flowers appearing with the
very early leafy shoots. More similar still to the present
plant is Ruiz and Pavon's B. virgata (Fl. Peru and Chili,
vol. i. p. 51, tab. 281, f. B.), a native of the mountains of
Peru; but here again the flowers (though described as
solitary by De Candolle) are stated by its authors to be
three, or sometimes two or four, and the peduncles are
short, compared with those of B. buxifolia.
Berberís buxifolia ranges from Chili to the Straits of
Magellan, and probably further south, but in Fuegia it is
replaced by B. ilicifolia and B. microphylla. It was intro-
duced into cultivation by seeds collected by Mr. Anderson,
the botanical collector attached to Captain King's survey
of the Magellan Straits, which were raised in Mr. Low's
nursery at Clapton. It has long been cultivated at Kew.
The berries are eatable.
DESCE. An erect glabrous rigid shrub. Leaves tufted ;
one to one and a half inch long, very coriaceous, sessile or
contracted into a petiole, obovate or cuneate-obovate, acute,
obtuse or mucronate, quite entire or rarely with a few
small spinous teeth, deep bright green. Flowers solitary
on long stout glabrous or puberulous pedicels, which are
longer, and sometimes twice as long as the leaves, globose,
half an inch in diameter, orange-yellow. Sepals ovate,
obtuse, three outer half as long as the inner, which are
orbicular and retuse. Berry nearly globose, dark blackish-
purple ; style stout, distinct ; stigma orbicular.•J. B. H.
of Ï/LÎ' Flo ; ver •î longitudinally ; 2, petal and stamen ; 3, front and back view
ot stamens ; 4, pistil -•all enlarged.