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rosaceo, urceolato, medio constricto, imo globoso, limbi la- 

 ciniis 5 reflexis, staminibus exsertis, filamentis erectis laci- 

 niarum quartam longitudinis, stylo filiformi, longe exserto, 

 stigmate capitato-3-lobo. Chile centralis. v. s. in herb. 

 Mus. Paris', versus pedem Andium (Gay). 



This is a very distinct species, partaking much of the habit 

 of the following, and somewhat of the two preceding. Dr. 

 Clos remarks that, seen at a distance, its branches bear much 

 the appearance of a Cactus or Cereus, owing to the length of its 

 straight branchlets, and the extreme intricacy of its innume- 

 rable spines, and verticillated very short ramifications. The 

 leaves are oval, rounded at the summit, cuneated at base into a 

 short petiole : they are glabrous, toothed on the margins, 2J 

 lines long, 1 \ line broad, on a petiole of \ line ; the flowers are 

 small and few, the pedicel is \\ line long, the tube of the calyx 

 1 j line, and the segments j line long, and it is 1 line in dia- 

 meter, tumid and semiglobose at its base*. 



Var. 0. Valanzuela ; Colletia Balanzuelse, Bert. MSS. : differt 

 spinis acicularibus, tenuioribus, et paulo longioribus. 



18. Colletia ulicina, Gill, et Hook, Bot. Misc. i. 155. tab. 44 c; 

 idem. iii. 173 ; suffruticosa, orgyalis, vel sub-2-orgyalis, 

 ramosissima, ubique rigide hirsutula, ramis teretibus, elon- 

 gatis, ramulisque spinosissimis, et intricatione spinarum quasi 

 cylindraceis, spinis duplo aut triple spinulosis, aut oppositis, 

 vel ternatim verticillatis, spinulis crebris, brevibus, tenuibus, 

 decussatis, fusco-olivaceis, striatis, acutissime pungentibus ; 

 foliis abortivis ; stipula minuta, subulata, fusca, ciliata, tuber- 

 culoque florifera sub spinula enatis; floribus copiosis, ple- 

 rumque fasciculatis, rarius solitariis, et proximitate axillarum 

 hinc spicato-congestis ; pedunculo hirsuto, incurvo, flore sub- 

 sequilongo; calycis tubo elongato, cylindrico, infra medium 

 constricto, imo subgloboso, fauce ampliore, limbi laciniis 5 

 oblongo-ovatis, recurvulis, staminibus intra tubum paulo 

 supra medium insertis, omnino inclusis, filamentis brevissimis, 

 stylo tubo multo breviore, erecto, stigmate subcapitato, obso- 

 lete 3-lobo ; fructu pisi magnitudine. Chile, in Andibus. 

 v. s. in herb. Hook. fluv. Tinguiririca, alt. 3000 ped. (Gillies) ; 

 Colchagua, in vallibus Andinis (Bridges, 1807); Chile (Gil- 

 lies, 220) ; in herb. Mus. Paris, San Fernando, prov. Colcha- 

 gua (Gay, 570). 



This is a very distinct species, not only on account of its 

 habit, but of its copious red flowers with an unusually elongated 

 tube, and its included stamens : in all other species the insertion 

 of the stamens is in the mouth, between the segments of the 



* A representation of this plant will be given in the * Contributions/ pi. 36 D. 



