154 





3. CoWetia ferox, {Gill, et Hook.) ; spinis valklis, florum fasci- 

 culis sparsis, calycibus oblongo-cylindraceis, antheris 

 subsessilibus. (Tab. XLIV. B.) 



CoUetia horrida. Brongniart in Ann. des Sciences Nat. v. 10. 



p. S6G, t. U. f. I.? 



Hab. Prope Mendozam et in convallibus Andium versus 

 Mendozam : alt. 2600 ad 3000 ped. 



This does not appear to differ in any particular from the 

 preceding species, except in the rather longer flowers, which 



».' glabra. 



Colletia spinosa. Lam. III. v. 2. p. 90. b. 129. Ilumb. et 



Kunth Nov. Gen. Ann. v. 7. p. 59. Boem. et Schultz. 



St/St. Veget. v. 5. p. 512. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 28. 



Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 771. 

 Colletia horrida. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 1. p. 1113. Vent. Hort. 



Cels. p. 92. (vix Brongniart.) 

 Colletia polyacantha. Willd. in Roem. et Schultz. Syst. Veget. 



V. 5. p. 113. 



I 



■ 



L 



/3. puhescenti-incana. 



Hab. «. In ascensu Andium a convalle Uspallatensi ad » 



" Ladera de las Vacas/' atque in Andibus Chilensibus, \ 



prope " La Guardia," in valle fluminis " Aconcagua:" alt. 

 5000 ad 7500 ped. — /3. Apud " Romeral" prope urbem 

 Chilensem " Curico," ubi Yaqui ab incolis vocatur/ 



Lamarck appears to be the original authority for this 

 species, which he has figured under the name here adopted 

 in his lUustrationes. Brongniart adopts the name o^ horrida; 

 but in the figure which he has given of the flowers, I find a 

 considerable difference from that of Lamarck, for he repre- 

 sents the filaments of the stamens so short, as not to raise the 

 anthers above the margin of the sinuses of the segments,—- a 

 character so nearly correspondhig with our next plant, that 

 I have little hesitation in referring it to that species. 



Tab. XLIV. A. C. spinosa. Fig. 1, Flower. Fig- % 

 Section of do. Fig. 3, Stamen : — magnified. 



