S68 Mr. J. Miei*s ow the Tribe Colletiese. 



Suffrutices (vel arbusculse) Chilenses, Magellanici et Nova Zelan-^ 

 did, ramulis decussatis, elongatis, spinosis vel sapius inermi' 

 bus; foliis oppositis, ellipticis, a-enulato-dentatis, discoloribus ', 

 floribus parvis, infra sjiinas, axillaribus, pedunculatis, solitariis, 

 vel fasciculatis. 



1. Notophana serratifolia, nob. Colletia serratifoHa, Vent, [non 

 Hook.) Hort. Cels. 92. tab. 15; DC. Prodr. ii. 28; Brongn. 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. x. 366; Lam. Diet. Suppl. ii, 312; id. Illusir. 

 pi. 930. Rhamnus Spaitium, Dombey ; — ramosa, ramis ra- 

 mulisque patentissimis, virgatis, sub-4-gonia, sublsevibus, 

 glaberriniis, parcc foliosis, subspinosis, spinis longiusculis, 

 foliosis, apicc calloso-pungentibus, patentibus ; foliis inter- 

 nodiis sequilongis, sape 3, fasciculatis^ oblongis^ vel lineari- 

 oblongis, apice bisiuuatis et mucronatis^ imo in petiolum 

 brevem attenuatis, breviter serrato-denticulatis^ dentibus 

 glanduliferis, crassiusculis, enerviis, utrinque glaberrimis, 

 subtus pallida flavis, stipulis navicularibus, linea trausversali 

 prominente inter se nexis, nodis bine quasi articulatis ; floribus 

 axillaribus^ subsolitariis^ pedunculo calyce longiorCj filiformi ; 

 calycis tubo brevi^ imo inflato, limbi laciniis 5, brevibus, rc- 

 flexis, staminibus ori insitis, stylo exserto. — Chile. — v. s. in 

 herb. Mus. Paris, " Perou " (sine dubio erronco), Dombey. 



This species differs from the following, with which it has been 

 generally confounded, in ils green, slender, almost herbaceous 

 stems and brancblets, which are somewhat angular, spreading 

 nearly at a right angle, quite glabrous, furnished with spines, 

 and sometimes bare of leaves, in its fewer or more deciduous, 

 small(;r, and nerveless leaves, in its fewer and larger flowers, and 

 its larger fruit. The internodes are from i inch to 1 inch apart, 

 and are almost articulated at each axil by the stipular extension 

 before described ; the divaricated s])ines, decussating at each 

 axil, are about tlie length of the internodes, and arc foliiferous 

 in their middle : in the younger lloriferous brancblets, the spines 

 are wanting at the nodes, from which one to three leaves spring 

 on each side; the leaves arc 4 to 7 lines long, Ii to 2 lines 

 broad, bearing small glandular teeth on the margin, of which 

 three, more conspicuous than the others, terminate the apex. 



The specimen from which this account is derived is the ori- 

 ginal type described by Ventenat : the flowers here have all 

 fallen away, but the fruit remains, generally solitary in the axils; 

 he pciduncle is 5 or 6 lines long, and the 3-lobcd capsule is 

 about 3 lines in diameter *. 



* A drawing of this sj)ecics will be shown in the ' Contributions,' 

 Plate 37 A. 



