Mr. J. Miei-3 on the Tribe Colletiese. 207 



6. Colletia cruciata, Gill. & Hook. Bot. Misc. i. 52. tab. 43 ; 

 ibid. iii. 172. — C. Bictonensis, Lindl. Journ. Hort, Soc. v. 29 

 cum icone. — Condalia paradoxa, Sj/r. Stjst. i. 825 ; — sufFruti- 

 cosa, 3-4'-pedalis, ramosaj ramulis subangulatis, spinis mag- 

 nis, horridis, decassatim oppositis, valde compressis, latissime 

 expansis, longe decurrentibus, et apice calloso-pungeutibus 

 ubique tectis ; junioribus pilis incanis adpi'essis hirsutulis 

 sparsim tomentellis^ foliiferis; foliis perpaucis, cito caducis, 

 ellipticis, dentatis, apice acutis et mucronatis, basi in petiolum 

 brevem canaliculatum attenuatis, sub spinis e stipula 2-dentata 

 euatis ; floribus parvis 6-8^ fasciculatis, e tuberculo squamoso 

 tomentoso ad basin spinarum ortis, pedunculo flore breviore, 

 calyce cylindrico, albo, basi viridi, medio non constricto, ob- 

 scure 10-nervio, limbi laciniis 5 patentibus, staminibus 5 

 parvis fere sessilibus inter lacinias sitis, stigmate obsolete 

 3-lobo, incluso. — Banda Oriental. — v. s. in herb. Hook. — 

 Maldonado (Gillies). 



This plant was raised in England many years since, and then 

 erroneously supposed to be a hybrid, or a monstrosity of C. 

 spinosa, and was described by Dr. Lindley under the name of 

 C. Bictonensis. It is the most remarkable species of the genus, 

 on account of its monstrous spines, which are flattened, and 

 extend from one axil to another in cruciatiug and divaricating 

 pairs : they are nearly an inch long and 3 to 6 lines broad at 

 their base. Its leaves are very caducous, oblong, acute, with a 

 mucronate apex, more obtuse at the base, fleshy, obsoletely 3- 

 nerved, toothed on the margin, quite glabrous, 2 lines long, 

 1 line broad, on a slender petiole of 1 line in length ; this springs 

 out of a sinus of a bidentate acute stipule, also caducous. The 

 flowers are smaller than in any of the preceding species, and 

 are of a whitish colour : the length of the tube is 1| line, of its 

 reflected segments 1 line, its diameter 1 line. The annular peri- 

 gynous disk] is green, and situated near the base of the tube ; 

 the filaments are one-fourth of the length of the segments, and 

 are reflected within the mouth; the style is exserted. The 

 capsule is 2h lines in diameter, 3-lobed, and seated in the free 

 cupular persistent base of the calyx*. 



7. Colletia Weddelliana, n. sp. ; — intricato-spinosa, ramulis nodos 

 versus compressis, ochraceo- vel glauco-pruinosis et granulato- 

 punctatis, spinis teretibus, imo compressis, substriatis, iterum- 

 que spinulosis, apice glanduloso-pungentibus ; foliis parvis, 

 caducissimis, lanceolato-oblongis, utrinquc acutis, integris vel 

 summo dcntatis, pallide glaucis, crassis, enerviis, convexis, 

 rachi superne sulcata, inferne prominula, pctiolo brevissimo, 



* This species will be represented in the ' Contributions,' plate 34 e. 



