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RETAMILIA, Brongn. Mo/zW^Comm. Calyx tubuloso-campa- 

 nulatus, carnosulus, limbo 4-5-fido, laciniis triangularibus, 

 erectis, intus carina calloque apical! notatis, sestivatione val- 

 vatis, tubo infra medium intus piloso, pilis patentibus, demuni 

 caducus. Petala 4-5, erecta, laciniis alterna et sequilonga, 

 in os tubi curn staminibus inserta, obovata, unguiculata, con- 

 cava, cucullata. Stamina 4-5, petalis opposita et iis recon- 

 dita; filamenta subulata, glabra, apice inflexa; anthera ro- 

 tundatse, reniformes, 2- valves (valva antica breviore), circa 

 connectivum carnosum reniforme semi-annulares, rima hippo- 

 crepica hiantes, demum peltatim expansse, et tune disciformes, 

 medio umbonatre. Discus fere obsoletus, vix ultra ovarii basin 

 extensus. Ovarium conico-oblongum, 3-loculare; ovula in 

 loculis solitaria, erecta. Stylus erectus, calyce dimidio bre- 

 vior. Stigma fere obsoletum, obtuse 3-punctatum. Fructus 

 globosus, pro mole majusculus, baccatus ; sarcocarpium spon- 

 gioso-carnosum, demum siccum et crasso-coriaceum : nux 

 sphserica, 3-sulcata, dura, lignea, crassa, indehiscens, 3-locu- 

 laris, loculis monospermis. Semen erectum, ovatum, subcom- 

 pressum, structura omnino illius Colletia. 



Suffrutices Chilenses dumosi, ramis ramulisque longissime virgatis, 

 teretibus, erectis, fere aphyllis, inermibus } nodis distantibus ; sti- 

 pulse opposite, parvulce, squamiformes, gibbosa, acuta, fuscce, 

 linea transversali prominula utrinque connexce ; folia opposita, 

 minuta, caducissima, spathulato-oblonga ; flores albi, oppositi, 

 hinc distantiores et utrinque solitarii in ramulis novellis enati, 

 vel in gemmam squamosam aocillarem capitato-agglomerati. 



1. Retamilia obcordata, Brongn. Ann. Sc. Nat. x. 364. tab. 14; 

 Colletia obcordata, Vent. Hort. Cels. tab. 92 ; Poiret in 

 Lam. Diet. Suppl. ii. 311 ; Colletia (Retanilla) obcordata, 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 28; Rhamnus Retamilia, Domb. MSS.\ 

 suffruticosa, 3-pedalis, ramis ramulisque erectis, virgatis, flexi- 

 bilibus, apice mucrone apiculatis, junioribus albo-tomentosis, 

 demum glabris, nodis remotis, quasi articulatis propter sti- 

 pulas 2 oppositas majusculas acutas adpressas demum pa- 

 ten tes inter se nexas ; ramulis rarius abortivis, brevibus, et tune 

 spiniformibus ; foliis oppositis, raris, cito caducis, mferioribus 

 obcordatis, in petiolum brevem cuneatis, superioribus spathu- 

 lato-ovatis, pubescentibus, 3-nerviis, pallide viridibus ; floribus 

 plurimis, fere sessilibus, glomerato-fasciculatis, vel sa3pe in- 

 terrupte spicatis ; calyce urceolato, fulvo, extus villosulo, intus 

 imo puberulo, limbi laciniis 5, acutis, erectis ; petalis 5, cucul- 

 latis, unguiculatis, laciniis fere sequilongis ; staminibus recon- 

 ditis, antheris apertis peltiformibus; ovario pubescente. Chile. 



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