214. 
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The germen is immersed in the disk, bilocular, with one 
ovule (in one instance there appeared two) suspended 
from the apex of each cell The style is single and 
nearly the length of the petals: stigma concave, 2-lobed, 
or shortly bilamellate. From this analysis our plant 
cannot be an Teg: it agrees in more points with Celas- 
trus, although the insertion of the stamens and pendu- 
lous ovules militate against, not only its belonging to that 
genus, but even to the order Celastrinee, as at present 
characterised: to that order, however, it certainly does 
belong, and may form a new genus, (Ionia, Hook. et 
Arn.) 
(1.) Sageretia £rinervis (Gill. mst.); glabra, ramis tereti- 
usculis lateralibus spinescentibus, foliis oppositis oblongo- 
ellipticis obtusis apiculatis basi in petiolum brevem 
decurrentibus integerrimis trinerviis basi bistipulatis, 
pedunculis unifloris axillaribus aggregatis folio multo bre- 
vioribus.—Valleys in the Andes of Mendoza, and near 
La Guardia in those of Chili, Dr. Gillies. Cordillera 
of Chili, Cuming (N. 242.)—This agrees in the inflores- ` 
cence with Sageretia, particularly in the disk of the flowers. 
The branches, which are often spinescent, are opposite 
as well as the leaves: the latter are from 3 to € of an 
inch long. Fruit subglobose, 3-lobed, nearly half im- 
mersed in the disk that lines the persistent base of the 
calyx. 
er = — À — Dr. Gillies: 
216. py Diut siie Gill. et Hook. in Bonis 
v. 1. p. 156. & 44. D.—Near Buenos Ayres, and moun- 
- tains of San Luis and — Dr. Gillies. = m 
Buenos Ayres, Tweedie: | 
217. (1.) Colletia cruciata, Gill et Hook. in Bot. Misc. v. 1. 
pe 152. t. 43.—Condalia paradoza, genes cami 
Rio de la Plata, Dr. Gillies. i 
