8 Mr. J. Miers on the Tribe Colletiex. 
without the least indication of its existence in any intermediate 
place. As I have met with other accidental, though rare, in- 
stances, in that extensive herbarium, of a similar interchange of 
tickets, I entertain the greatest doubt of the correctness of the 
locality in question, for the reasons stated. 
2. . Talguenea mollis, n. sp. ;—fruticosa, spinosa, ramis ramulisque 
‘rectis, teretibus, griseo-tomentosis, spinis foliis triplo brevio- 
ribus, foliiferis, tenuibus, aciculatis ; foliis submembranaceis, 
ellipticis, utrinque acutis, subdenticulatis, superne fusco-viri- 
dibus, subtus canescentibus, utrinque sericeis, 5-nerviis, nervis 
supra immersis, subtus vix prominulis, petiolo brevi; stipulis 
majusculis, oppositis, navicularibus, subamplexicaulibus, extus 
griseo-sericeis, intus rubro-pilosis, apice 2-dentatis ; inflores- 
centia in racemis brevibus oppositis multiflora, floribus in 
fasciculis 6-8, approximatis, fasciculis 6—8-floris, idcireo 30- 
60 in racemo, hine crebriter conglomeratis, pedicellis flore 
longioribus, cano-sericeis.—Chile, in Prov. Rancagua.—. s. 
in herb, Mus. Paris. (Bertero, 188). 
This species has a different aspect from the former: the 
branchlets are quite straight and sericeous, and the spines much 
thinner, not exceeding 4 lines in length, and foliferous im . 
the middle. Its leaves are much thinner in texture, neither 
sulcated above, nor costately nerved beneath, the nervures being 
very fine, and scarcely prominent ; they are remotely denticu- 
lated with extremely short teeth, sericeous on both sides, silvery 
below, 9-10 lines long, 44 lines broad, on a petiole 14 line long ; 
the stipules are comparatively large, concave, opposite, and 
meeting each other in the middle of the stem, which they thus 
completely embrace ; they are deeply bifid, 14 line long, exter- 
nally sericeous, internally and on the margin red. The race- 
mose branchlets are 1 inch long, and bear from forty to sixty 
flowers, crowded in the manner above specified *. 
9. ScyPHARIA. 
Under this head are brought together a few spinose shrubs, 
or small trees, more or less foliaceous in habit, distinguished by 
their opposite leaves ; small flowers, with an urceolate 5-fid calyx ; 
small, deeply emarginate, naviculate petals, enclosing as many 
stamens ; and a 2-celled ovary: they are very different from 
Trevoa, to which they approach the nearest in their floral struc- 
ture. In most of them the fruit is unknown; but Kunth de- 
scribes that of his Rhamnus Guayaquilensis as being an oval 
drupe, somewhat fleshy, smooth, and bilocular, or by abortion 
l1-celled, as in Trevoa. The manuscript characters contributed 
* This species will be represented in the ‘ Contributions,’ Plate 41 c. 
