8 Mr. J. Miers on the Tribe Colletiese. 



without the least indication of its existence in any intermediate 

 place. As I have met with other accidental, though rare, in- 

 stances, in that extensive herbarium, of a similar interchange of 

 tickets, I entertain the greatest doubt of the correctness of the 

 locality in question, for the reasons stated. 



2. Talguenea mollis, n. sp. ; — fruticosa, spinosa, ramis ramulisque 

 rectis, teretibus, griseo-tomentosis, spinis foliis triplo brevio- 

 ribus, foliiferis, tenuibus, aciculatis ; foliis submembranaceis, 

 ellipticis, utrinque acutis, subdenticulatis, superne fusco-viri- 

 dibus, subtus canescentibus, utrinque sericeis, 5-nerviis, nervis 

 supra immersis, subtus vix prominulis, petiolo brevi ; stipulis 

 majusculis, oppositis, navicularibus, subamplexicaulibus, extus 

 griseo-sericeis, intus rubro-pilosis, apice 2-dentatis ; innores- 

 centia in racemis brevibus oppositis multiflora, floribus in 

 fasciculis 6-8, approximatis, fasciculis 6-8-floris, idcirco 30- 

 60 in racemo, hinc crebriter conglomeratis, pedicellis flore 

 longioribus, cano-sericeis. — Chile, in Prov. Rancagua. — v. s. 

 in herb. Mus. Paris. (Bertero, 188). 



This species has a different aspect from the former : the 

 branchlets are quite straight and sericeous, and the spines much 

 thinner, not exceeding 4 lines in length, and foliiferous in 

 the middle. Its leaves are much thinner in texture, neither 

 sulcated above, nor costately nerved beneath, the nervures being 

 very fine, and scarcely prominent ; they are remotely denticu- 

 lated with extremely short teeth, sericeous on both sides, silvery 

 below, 9-10 lines long, 4^ lines broad, on a petiole 1 J line long ; 

 the stipules are comparatively large, concave, opposite, and 

 meeting each other in the middle of the stem, which they thus 

 completely embrace ; they are deeply bifid, 1^ line long, exter- 

 nally sericeous, internally and on the margin red. The race- 

 mose branchlets are 1 inch long, and bear from forty to sixty 

 flowers, crowded in the manner above specified *. 



9. Scypharia. 



Under this head are brought together a few spinose shrubs, 

 or small trees, more or less foliaceous in habit, distinguished by 

 their opposite leaves ; small flowers, with an urceolate 5 -fid calyx ; 

 small, deeply emarginate, naviculate petals, enclosing as many 

 stamens ; and a 2-celled ovary : they are very different from 

 Trevoa, to which they approach the nearest in their floral struc- 

 ture. In most of them the fruit is unknown ; but Kunth de- 

 scribes that of his Rhamnus Guayaquilensis as being an oval 

 drupe, somewhat fleshy, smooth, and bilocular, or by abortion 

 1-celied, as in Trevoa. The manuscript characters contributed 



* This species will be represented in the f Contributions,' Plate 41 c. 



