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globoso-trilobus^ basi calyce circumscisso cinctus, trilocu- 

 laris, (demum tricoccus?) trispermus. Semina atra, ni- 

 tida, erecta, ovali-oblonga. 



This is very distinct from every species of Colletia hitherto 

 described, in the small very numerous dark-green spines, 

 and in the fascicles of flowers being collected so abundantly 

 about the extremities of the branches, as to form an ap- 

 parently dense raceme or spike, in the very elongated calyx, 

 of a reddish colour, and in the stamens being inserted a con- 

 siderable way down within the tube. 



Tab. XLIV. C. C. idicina. Fig. 1, Flower. 



Fig. 2, 



Section of do. Fig.% Stamen. Fig. ^^ Yx\\\t:— natural 

 size. Fig. 5, Section of fruit: — magnified. 



DISCARIA. HooL (nov. gen,) 



Calyoo brevi-campanulatus, 4-5 fidus, coloratus. Petala 4-5, 

 staminibns minora. Antherce biloculares, longitudinaliter 

 dehiscentes. Discus basin germinis cingens, pateriformis, 

 carnosus, margine angusto elevato, libero, subintegro. 



subsuperum. Stglus brevis. Stigma trilobum. 



nino Colletia. Nomen a ho-Kog, discus. 



Germen 



Habitus 



Discaria Americana^ [Gill et Hook.)\ calyce (plerumque) 6 

 fido, segmentis reflexis. (Tab. XLIV. D.) 



Hab. Prope "Buenos Ayres:" atque in radicibus mon- 

 tium Provincise Sancti Ludovici, et " Cordova.'' 



The whole structure of this plant, save the distinguishing 

 marks above given in the generic character, is so similar to 

 that of Colletia spinosa^ that a description is scarcely neces- 



To this genus must unquestionably be referred the 



sary 



ptihescens 



igure of the flower at Tab. XLV. 



• This plant, a native of Cox's River, at Bathurst, and the banks of the 



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