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*COLLETIA horrida. 

 Bristling CoUetia. 



PENTANDRI.\ MOXOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Rhamne^, Jilss. {Introduction to the Natural System of 

 Botany, p. 113.) 



COLLETIA, Kunth. — Ca/7/.r campanulatus, membranaceus, coloratus. 

 Petala O, v. minutissima, linearia. Stamina antherls ovatis bilocularibus v. re- 

 niformibus unilocularibus. Discus brevis, cupulaeformis, fundo calycis adnatus. 

 Ovarium liberum, triloculare. Stylus simplex, eloiigatus. Fructus basi calycis 

 tubo persistente cinetus, tricoccus, dehiscens. Seynina sessilia. Ad. Bromj. in 

 Ann. sc. nat. x. 365. 



C. horrida ; spinis rigidis simplicibus vel tri-multipartitis, peduneulis sub gcmi- 



natis, calycibus ovato-oblongis, staminibus sessilibus. 

 C. horrida. Ad. Brong. I. c. an. Vent. ? 

 C. ferox. Gill. ^ Hook, in Bot. Misc. 1. 154. t. 44. /. B. 



Frutex ulicinus, atroviridis, rigidus, nudns aut levitcr puhescens, aphyl- 

 lus, vel in ramis vegetioribus parch foliatus. Rami spinescentes nunc omnino 

 simplices, nunc tripartiti, scepe multipartiti, validi et rigidi. Folia dum 

 adsunt, minuta, ovata, serrafa, atroviridia, glabra. Pedunculi scepids gemi- 

 nati, nunc aggregati, sub anthesi nutantes, postea rigidi, ascendentes. Calyx 

 ovato-oblongus, laciniis erectis, demum supra discum annularem revolutum 

 transverse separabilis et deciduus. Stamina omnino sessilia. Ovarium su- 

 perurn, triloculare, ovulo unico erccto cuique loculo. Stylus 1. Stigmata 3, 

 subcapitata. 



A hardy evergreen shrub, with much the habit of a 

 furze bush, like which it consists chiefly of strong spines of a 

 deep green colour. The flowers, which are of a greenish 

 white, stciined with dull purple, are produced in some 

 abundance at the ends of the shoots, and appear in May 

 and June. 



Leaves the plant has none when old ; but its young 

 branches are furnished with them in the form of opposite 



* Named by Commcrson after one Mons. Collet, a French Botanist, who is 

 said by Jussieu to have been a fierce opponent of the method of Tournefort. 



