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1776 
* COLLETIA horrida. 
Bristling Colletia, 
m 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RHAmMNEz, Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of 
Botany, p. 113.) . 
COLLETIA, Kunth.— Calyx campanulatus, membranaceus, coloratus. 
Petala O, v. minutissima, linearia. Stamina antheris ovatis bilocularibus v. re- 
niformibus unilocularibus. Discus brevis, cupulzformis, fundo calycis adnatus. 
Ovarium liberum, triloculare. Stylus simplex, elongatus. Fructus basi calycis 
tubo persistente cinctus, tricoccus, dehiscens. Semina sessilia. Ad. Brong. in 
Ann. sc. nat. x. 365. 
C. horrida ; spinis rigidis simplicibus vel tri-multipartitis, pedunculis sub gemi- 
natis, calycibus ovato-oblongis, staminibus sessilibus. 
C. horrida. Ad. Brong. l. c. an. Vent. ? 
C. ferox. | Gill. & Hook. in Bot. Mise. 1.154. t. 44. f. B. 
Frutex ulicinus, atroviridis, rigidus, nudus aut leviter pubescens, aphyl- 
lus, vel in ramis vegetioribus parce foliatus. Rami spinescentes nunc omnino 
simplices, nunc tripartiti, sepe multipartiti, validi et rigidi. Folia dum 
adsunt, minuta, ovata, serrata, atroviridia, glabra. Pedunculi sepids gemi- 
nati, nunc aggregati, sub anthesi nutantes, postea rigidi, ascendentes. Calyx 
ovato-oblongus, laciniis erectis, demum supra discum annularem revolutum 
transverse separalilis et deciduus. Stamina omnino sessilia. Ovarium su- 
perum, triloculare, ovulo unico erecto cuique loculo. Stylus I. Stigmata 3, 
subcapitata. 
A hardy evergreen shrub, with much the habit of a 
furze bush, like which it consists chiefly of strong spines of a 
deep green colour. The flowers, which are of a greenish 
white, stained with dull purple, are produced in some 
abundance at the ends of the shoots, and appear in May 
and June. 
Leaves the plant has none when old; but its young 
branches are furnished with them in the form of opposite 
* Named by Commerson after one Mons. Collet, a French Botanist, who is 
said by Jussieu to have been a fierce opponent of the method of Tournefort. 
