92 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS, 



characters of Colletia, Fruit drupaceous, finally coriaceous, dry 

 capsular, surrounded at base to greater or less height with the 

 persistent receptacular cupule and disk ; cocci 3, crustaceous, finally 

 2-valvate. Testa of suberect plano-convex seed coriaceous ; raicro- 

 pyle in general finally lateral ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of 

 slightly fleshy embryo orbicular or shortly ovate ; radicle very short 

 inferior. — Ramose shrubs, foliate or more rarely leafless ; twigs 

 decussate, often spinescent, articulate or subarticulate at nodes ; 

 leaves (small or minute) coriaceous rather thick, imperceptibly 

 penninerved, oftener obovate, sometimes serrate ; flowers axillary 

 solitary or oftener few cymose ; pedicels waving ; other characters 

 of Colletia} [Trop, alpine and ewtra-trop. America^ Australia^ Neiu 

 Zealand.'^) 



35 ? Adolphia Meissn.^ — Flowers nearly of Colletia ; receptacle 

 much shorter subcampanulate, lined with a disk as far as the 

 insertion of petals and stamens. Petals 5, inserted between the 

 3- angular- ovate and recurved lobes of the calyx, small, cucullate, at 

 base rather longer attenuated subspathulate. Stamens 5, oppositi- 

 petalous and inserted at margin of disk, nearly equal in length 

 to corolla ; anthers small ; cells 2, finally confluent in one above 

 and hence hippocrepiform-rimose. Germen subglobular or at 

 base adnate to receptacular cavity and disk, glabrous; cells 3, 

 1-ovulate; style slender, 3-lobed at stigmatose apex. Fruit drupa- 

 ceous finally coriaceous subdry subglobular, surrounded at base 

 with the somewhat enlarged and adnate cupule of receptacle, 

 3-coccous; cocci chartaceous, perforated at the base, finally sepa- 

 rate and dehiscent within. Testa of suberect broadly oblong plano- 

 convex seed coriaceous ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of somewhat 

 fleshy embryo orbicular ; radicle short inferior. Other characters 



1 A genus very often referred to Colletia, of 173, — Ad. Br. Hhamn. 59, n. 1, 4 (Colletia). 



which, with others following, it would be better — A. Rich. Fot/. Astrol. Bot. t. 14 {Colletia). • 



regarded as a section, notwithstanding the form Hook. Icon. t. 538 (Colletia). — Raoul, Oh. de PI. 



of the perianth and receptacle and the structure 29. — C. Gay, Fl. Chil. ii. 19 (Rhamnus), 35-37 



of the disk, the nature of the pericarp, the (Colletia), 38 (Ocketopkila) .—Rook. f. Fl. Tasm. 



twigs imperceptibly or not at all articulate, i. 69 ; Fl. Ant. ii. 255 (Colletia) ; 3fan. N.-Zeal. 



characters apparently here of no moment. Fl. 43.— Reiss. Mart. Fl. Bras. Mamn. t. 35.— 



2 Spec. 10-12. Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. Walp. Ann. vii. 605. 



iv. 108 (Condalia). — Y-EST. Jard. Cels, 92, t. 3 Qen.70; Cowm. 50.— Endl. G^^-^.n. 5732.— 



15 (Colletia).— Rook, and Arn. But. Misc, iii. Miers, Contrib. i. 284.— B. H. Gen. 384 n. 30. 



