94 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



pilose ; anthers siibpeltate, 2-locular, finally confluently rimose and 

 opening very widely transversely. Germen immersed in bottom of 

 tube, sometimes hirsute, sub-3-lobed, 3-locular ; style slender hir- 

 sute, 3-lobedatstigmatose apex. Fruit ^^carcerular chartaeeous very 

 hirsute oblong, enclosed by unchanged calyx, a little longer than it, 

 apiculate to style, indehiscent ; cells 1-3, 1-spermous ; seeds of 

 of Colletia} " A highly branched shrub ; branches opposite ; the 

 younger ones spinous ; leaves opposite membranous oblong, entire 

 or serrate, 5-nerved at base, sericious beneath, stipules small 

 scarious ; inflorescence and other characters of Retanilla or Colletia. 

 {CMli\) 



38? Trevoa Miers.^ — Flowers nearly of Colletia] calyx mem- 

 branous, subcampanulate or long urceolate ampullaceous, lined with 

 hairs not a glandular disk ; tube far produced beyond receptacle ; 

 limb 4-5-lobed, valvate. Petals 4, 5, inserted between lobes of 

 calyx-neck, very cucullate. Stamens same in number opposite to 

 and enclosed by petals ; filaments short pilose ; anthers subpeltate, 

 confluently rimose and finally opening very wide transversely in 2 

 valves. Germen semi-immersed at bottom of tube, sub-2-3-lobed, 

 2-3-locular very hirsute; style straight pilose, 2-3-lobed at stig- 

 matose apex. Fruit drupaceous ovoid, girt at base with persistent 

 cupule of receptacle; putamen rather hard nutlike, 1-3-locular ; 

 seeds and other characters of Retanilla (or Talguenea) ; testa nitid, 

 raphe lateral percurrent ; micropyle finally lateral ; albumen fleshy ; 

 cotyledons of straight embryo suborbicular or shortly elliptical; 

 radicle short inferior. —Yery ramose leafy shrubs ; branches not 

 sulcate; leaves opposite, ovate or obovate, serrulate, 3-nerved at 

 base ; stipules deciduous ; inflorescence and other characters of 

 Colletia, [Bolivia, ChiliJ^) 



1 Char, from Miers, loc. cit. 488; Contrib. i. 291, t. 40.— B. H. Gen. 384, n. 



2 Spec. 2. Gill, and Hook. Bot. Misc. i. 158, 32. 



t. 45 B. {Trevoa).— Y^^^n. from Colla, Mem. ■* Spec. 5 (Miers). B-OO-k. Bot. MiscA. 157; 



Torin. xxxvii. 53, t. 7 {Colletia).— C. Gay, Fl. iii. 174 {Retanilla).— C. Gay, Fl. Chil. ii. 27 



Chil. ii. 23 (Trevoa).— Walp. Ann vii. 607. {Retanilla), 31 {Colletia),— Walv. Ann. viii. 607, 



3 Trav. Chili, 529 ; Ann. Nat. Mist. ser. 3, v. 



