64 WIGHT'S ILLUSTRATIONS. 
is much used in this country as a fence, for which it is well 
fitted, by its very ramous rigid character. Detached plants — 
form low trees, with bushy heads. 
Tas. CXXI. Fig. 1, 1, Male flowers. Fig. 2, Stamen. 
Fig.3, Female flower. Fig. 4, Transverse section of the ad- 
vanced germen. Fig. 5, Vertical section of a fruit. Fig. 6, 
Seed :— more or less magnified. 
(Tas. CXXII.] 
ATALANTIA RACEMOSA; 
Racemis axillaribus, floribus, subsessilibus, stigmate capitato. 
(Tas. CX XII.) 
Kaat Yellemuhie (Wild Lime). Tamwul. 
A ramous shrub or small tree; the extreme branches smooth, 
green, somewhat flexuose. Leaves springing from the flex- 
ures, shortly petiolated, broad, ovato-elliptical, obtuse, emar- 
ginate, otherwise entire, coriaceous, smooth, perforated with 
pellucid points. Spines axillary, subulate, from one-half to an 
inch long, perhaps much longer on the large branches, Ra- 
cemes also axillary, springing from the side of the spine, usu- 
ally shorter than the leaves, closely covered with rather large 
white flowers. Calyx 4-cleft, segments acute, smooth. Corolla 
4-petaled, reflexed; petalslinear-obtuse. Stamens eight; fila- 
ments united to the apex into a nectary-like cup. Anthers 
sessile, round, 2-celled, alternately larger. Pistil: ovary superiors 
3- or 4-celled; cells containing several ovules. Style shorter 
than the stamens. Stigma capitate, 3- or 4-lobed. Fruit I 
have not seen. 
This is another new species, selected from my Madera col- 
lection. It was gathered in that alpine country in February, ; 
1830. Its having been so long overlooked, is perhaps oW- . 
ing to its general similarity to the 4. monophylla; a closer — 
examination, however, shows them to be quite distinct species. 
This differs from the 4. monophylla, in having racemed, but 
nearly sessile, hence almost spiked, flowers, in the filaments 
being united to the very apex, not *apice liberis," and in 
