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are broader and less urceolate; and in the anthers having 

 filaments so exceedingly shorty that without a very minute 

 exammation they might be entirely overlooked. Brongniart's 

 figure of C. horrida represents the anthers as almost wholly 

 included within the tube of the calyx: and the segments of 

 the calyx are given as erect, whereas in our plant they are 

 remarkably revolute. 



Tab. XLIV. B. a ferox. Fig. 1, Flower. Fig. 2, Sta- 

 men. Fig. 3, Young fruit. Fig. 4, Ripe fruit : natural 

 size : — all but Jig. 4 magnified* 



• Colletia Mfe'wGT, [Gill, et HooL); spinis tenuibus numero- 

 sissimis, floribus fasciculatis in apicem raraorum congestis, 

 calycibus elongato-cylindraceis, filamentis intra tubum 

 insertis. (Tab. XLIV. C.) 



• glabra. 



fi. piihescenti'hirsuta* 



w 



Hab. Fruticetis prope "El Rancho" in valle fluminis " Ting- 

 ririca," in Chile : alt. 3000 ped. 



Frutex pedalis, bipedalisque, facie Ulicis nances ramosissimus, 

 subdecumbens, in «. glaber, in /3. pubescenti-liirsutus, 

 ramulis brevibus densis e spinis gracilibus decussatim 

 ramosis formatis, viridibus, siccitate striatis, acutissimis, 

 pungentibus. Folia omnino nulla? Flores nunc, raro, 

 solitarii; plerumque fasciculati, e basibus spinarum orti, 

 ad apices ramorum in capitulum elongatura vel spicam 

 densam congesti. Pedunculus brevis, curvatus. Calyx 

 ruber, elongato-cylindraceus, infra medium subcontractus, 

 apice quinquefidus, segmentis oblongo-ovatis recurvatis: 

 intus, supra basin discus, annulatus, annulo carnoso, in- 

 flexo. Petala 0. Stamina 5, intra tubum, paulo supra 

 medium, inserta. Filamenta brevissima: Anthem reni- 

 formes, bivalves, rima vel sulco hippocrepico dehiscentes, 

 uniloculares. PistiUum: Germen semisuperum, subro- 

 tundo-trilobum : Stylus calyce multo brevior, elongato- 

 cylindraceus: Stigma subcapitatum, obtusum, obscure 

 trilobum. • Fructus (vix maturus) magnitudine Pisi satm, 



