210 Mr. J. Miers on the Tribe Colletiese. 



V. s. in herb. Hook. La Guardia (Gillies) ; Mendosam versus 

 (Gillies) : Chile (Meyen) : in herb. Mus. Paris (Gay, 2). 



The general habit and appearance of this plant is like that of 

 C. sjnnosa, Lam,, but its flowers are much smaller, its stamens 

 much longer, and ostensibly exserted : its armature is stouter, 

 the primary spines are about 2 inches long, the secondary ones 

 6 to 9 lines long, diminishing upwards, and 4 to 5 lines apart ; 

 the flowers are numerous, frequently as many as eight from each 

 spine : the pedicels are slender, 2 lines long ; the length of the 

 tube is If line, and of the segments 1 line, its diameter half a 

 line ; the filaments are erect, half the length of the segments ; 

 the style is exserted, and is deeply bullated or torulose all over 

 its surface*. 



IL Colletia Spartioides, Bert. Ann. Sc. Nat. xxi. 347 ; Hook. 

 Bot.Misc. iii. 173; Colla, Mem. Torin. 37. p. 52. tab. 6;— sub- 

 2-orgyalis, ramosissima, ramis virgatis, ramnlis gracilibus, 

 flexuosis, spiuosis, junioribus sicco viridibus, pubescentibus, 

 adultis glaberrimis, pallidc glaucis, spinis subsparsis, decus- 

 satim opj)Ositis, curvulis, compressis, longissimis, gracillimis, 

 striatis, intricatis, aj)ice pungentibus ; foliis oppositis, spathu- 

 lato-oblongis, basi attenuatis, margine serrulatis, obsolete 

 3-ncrviis, glabris, petiolatis, e retinacula stipulari iufraspinali 

 breviter divaricata I'usco- rubra 2-deutata ortis ; floribus paucis, 

 glomeratis, sub spinis enatis, pedunculo flore breviore, calyce 

 breviter cylindraceo, imo globosim inflato, limbi laciniis 5 

 acutis, revolutis, staminibus erectis, laciniis dimidio breviori- 

 bus. — Insula Juan Fernandez. — v. s. in herb, men et in herb. 

 Mus. Paris (Guillemin, Bertero) ; in hb. Hook. (Bertero, 1448 ; 

 Cuming). 



This species is remarkable for its broom-like habit and the 

 branchlike length of its extremely slender and lax spines. Bertero 

 describes it as a tree 8 or 10 feet in height, with whitish flowers of 

 a rose-coloured tint, and as being almost bare of leaves : its leaves, 

 however, are larger than in any other species, measuring 9 lines 

 in length (including a petiole of 1 line) and 2| lines broad. 

 The pedicels are 1| line long, the tube of the calyx 2 lines, the 

 segments 1 line long, and the tube is 1| line in diameter; the 

 position of the disk is marked by a line of constriction above the 

 semiglobose base of the calyx. The frnit, surmounted by the 

 persistent style, is nearly globose, 2 lines in diameter, and sup- 

 ported by the lax persistent cup of the calyxf. 



12. Colletia cataphracta, n. sp. ; — intricatissime spinosa, fulvo- 

 tomentella, aut parce pilosula, ramis elongatis, strictis, ramulis 



* A figure of this species will be given in the ' Contribtitions,' plate 35 c. 

 t This species will be shown in the same work, plate 35 D. 



