Mr. J. Miers on the Tribe Colletiese. 269 



2. Notophana foliosa, nob. Colletia serratifolia, Hook, (non 

 Vent.) var. y, foliosa, Bot. Misc. iii. 173. C. crenata, Clos, 

 loc. cit. 35. Rhamnus diffusus, Clos, in Gay, Chile, ii. 20; 

 arbuscula frondosa, ramis ramulisque hand patentibus, non- 

 nullis spinescentibus, spinisque erectioribus, virgatis, tereti- 

 bus, striatis, pallidis, aut ssepius f usco-rubris ; ramulis novellis 

 inermibus, erectiusculis, elongatis vel abbreviates, foliiferis et 

 floriferis, et infra spinas (ubi adsunt) nascentibus; stipulis 

 oppositis, rubellis, latiusculis, breviter trigonis, concavis, apice 

 2-dentatis, imo linea transversali circa caulem connexis ; foliis 

 oppositis, ellipticis, vel oblongis, apice obtusis et mucronu- 

 latis, inio acutioribus, crenulato-dentatis, dentibus ssepius fere 

 obsoletis, supra Isete viridibus, subtus pallide glaucis, penni- 

 nerviis, nervis fuscis anastomosantibus, glabris, vel sub lente 

 parce puberulis, petiolo canaliculato, tenui; floribus 3, fasci- 

 culatis ex quaque axilla ; pedunculo erecto, demum incurvo ; 

 calyceque glabro, urceolato, 5-fido ; staminibus erectis, laciniis 

 reflexis, sequilongis ; ovario piloso, stylo glabro, longe exserto ; 

 fructu minore. Chile. v. s. in variis herbariis ; Valparaiso 

 (Cuming, 427-637) ; Valdivia (Bridges, 594) ; Concepcion 

 (Germain, sub nom. Trevoa 3-nervis) ; in herb. Mus. Paris 

 (Gay) ; Dombey, sub nom. Rhamnus Chacay. 



This is a small tree, with rather virgate branches and an 

 abundant foliage of small leaves, with long spines, or rather 

 branchlets having an apiculate termination; the branches are 

 quite glabrous; the spines, | to 1J inch long, are always articu- 

 lated in the middle, and there floriferous ; the fertile branchlets 

 that spring from below them bear an abundance of flowers and 

 leaves, with the axils approximated, so that the inflorescence 

 appears somewhat spicated ; these branchlets, though sometimes 

 much longer, seldom exceed half an inch in length, bearing 

 in each node two opposite sets of three fasciculated flowers and 

 two opposite leaves; the leaves are from 6 to 9 lines long, 

 3 lines broad, on a petiole 1 line in length ; those of the main 

 branches are 1 inch long, and half an inch broad, the margins 

 generally revolute, with crenated, almost obsolete teeth, and 

 yellowish. The peduncles are nearly 2 lines long; the broad 

 and urceolate tube of the calyx is 1 line long, its segments and 

 erect stamens | line in length; the small hypogynous disk, 

 adnate to it, is slightly concave, green, smooth, fleshy, with a 

 raised undulating margin, and is half as broad again as the very 

 pilose ovary which it supports. The 3-coccous fruit is about 

 2 lines in diameter, and pilose : when the cocci spring out of 

 their bed, which they do with a noise and much elastic force, 

 their persistent cup is seen to be formed of three distinct and 



