268 Mr. J. Miers on the Tribe Colletiese. 



Suffrutices (vel arbusculae) Chilenses, Magellanici et Nova Zelan- 

 did, ramulis decussatis, elongatis, spinosis vel sapius inermi- 

 bus; foliis oppositis, ellipticis, crenulato-dentatis, discoloribus ; 

 floribus parvis, infra spinas, axillaribus, pedunculatis, solitariis, 

 vel fasciculatis. 



1. Notophana serratifolia, nob. Colletia serratifolia, Vent, (non 

 Hook.} Hort. Cels. 92. tab. 15; DC. Prodr. ii. 28; Brongn. 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. x. 366; Lam. Diet. Suppl. ii. 312; id. Illustr. 

 pi. 930. Ilhamnus Spartium, Dombey, ramosa, ramis ra- 

 mulisque patentissimis, virgatis, sub-4-gonis, sublsevibus, 

 glaberrimis, parce foliosis, subspinosis, spinis longiusculis, 

 foliosis, apice calloso-pungentibus, patentibus; foliis inter- 

 nodiis sequilongis, ssepe 3, fasciculatis, oblongis, vel lineari- 

 oblongis, apice bisinuatis et mucronatisj imo in petiolum 

 brevem attenuatis, breviter serrato-denticulatis, dentibus 

 glanduliferis, crassiusculis, enerviis, utrinque glaberrimis, 

 subtus pallide flavis, stipulis navicularibus, linea transversali 

 prominente inter se nexis, nodis hinc quasi articulatis ; floribus 

 axillaribus, subsolitariis, pedunculo calyce longiore, filiformi ; 

 calycis tubo brevi, imo inflato, limbi laciniis 5, brevibus, re- 

 flexis, staminibus ori insitis, stylo exserto. Chile. v. s. in 

 herb. Mus. Paris, " Perou i} (sine dubio erroneo), Dombey. 



This species differs from the following, with which it has been 

 generally confounded, in its green, slender, almost herbaceous 

 stems and branchlets, which are somewhat angular, spreading 

 nearly at a right angle, quite glabrous, furnished with spines, 

 and sometimes bare of leaves, in its fewer or more deciduous, 

 smaller, and nerveless leaves, in its fewer and larger flowers, and 

 its larger fruit. The internodes are from J inch to 1 inch apart, 

 and are almost articulated at each axil by the stipular extension 

 before described; the divaricated spines, decussating at each 

 axil, are about the length of the internodes, and are foliiferous 

 in their middle : in the younger floriferous branchlets, the spines 

 are wanting at the nodes, from which one to three leaves spring 

 on each side; the leaves are 4 to 7 lines long, 1^ to 2 lines 

 broad, bearing small glandular teeth on the margin, of which 

 three, more conspicuous than the others, terminate the apex. 



The specimen from which this account is derived is the ori- 

 ginal type described by Ventenat : the flowers here have all 

 fallen away, but the fruit remains, generally solitary in the axils ; 

 he peduncle is 5 or 6 lines long, and the 3-lobed capsule is 

 about 3 lines in diameter *. 



* A drawing of this species will be shown in the ' Contributions/ 

 Plate 37 A. 



