RHAMNACÉES. 89 
III. COLLETIEÆ. 
“5. Colletia Comuers. — Flores hermaphroditi v. polygami; calyce 
membrauaceo (colorato) cylindrico v. urceolato-tubaloso, basi tumente 
ibique demum circumcisso ; limbi laciniis 4, 5, valvatis, demum reflexis. 
Petala 5 (v. 0), parva cucullata. Stamina totidem petalis opposita cumque 
eis sinubus inserta, subæquilonga ; filamentis liberis; antheris brevibus, 
2-locularibus ; rimis 2, sæpe demum in unam hippocrepicam superne 
confluentibus. Discus glandulosus cupulam imi floris vestiens, nune 
tenuis inconspicuusve, sæpius crassus margineque libero involutus. 
Germen magna ex parte liberum, basi cupulæ adnatum, 3-loculare ; 
stylo erecto elongato, ad apicem cavum capitato ; lobis stigmatosis 3 v. 6 
(alternis 3 vix conspicuis). Ovula in loculis 4 (Æhamni); micropyle 
introrsum infera, demum lJaterali. Fructus drupaceus, basi eupula 
receptaculi cinclus; exocarpio demum siecalo coriaceo ; endocarpio 2, 
3-C0CCO ; Coccis cruslaceis, 2-valvibus. Semina plano-convexa ; testa 
Coriacea; albumine carnoso; embryonis erecti cotyledonibus com- 
Pressis; radicula brevi infera. — Frutices plerumque aphylli; ramis 
decussatis spinescentibus, nune crassis compressis rigidissunis ; foliis 
Oppositis minimis, squamiformibus (v. 0); floribus infra spinas solitariis 
Y- Cyiosis paucis; pedicellis brevibus gracilibusque nutantibus. (Ame- 
rica merid. calid. et temp.) — Vid. p. 61. 
34? Discaria Hook. ‘ — Flores (fere Co/etiw) h-5-meri, nunc 
apetali (Notophæna ?); calycis tubo tereti v. campanulato, aut breviter, 
aut longe ultra discum producto. Petala calycis lobis numero æqualia 
(v. nune 0) tubi fauci in sinubus calycis inserta cucullata parva. Stamina 
Colletie, eum petalis inserta oppositaque ; antheris 2-rimosis (Ocheto- 
Phila ?) v. ob confluentiam apicalem loculorum hippocrepice rimosis 
(Eudiscaria). Discus tubi fundum vestiens, annularis, margine integro 
V. lobato liber. Germen plerumque subglobosum, sub-3-lobum, ima 
basi receptaculi concavitati adnatum v. immersum; loculis 3; ovulo * 
Cæterisque Co//etie. Fructus drupaceus, demum coriaceus, siccatus cap- 
ris, basi receptaculi cupula discoque persistentibus plus minus alte 
Expz 
, 2. Mitrs, Contrib., 1, 266, t. LÀ 
Hist:, 3. Pœpp., ex EnpL., G 
n. 5733 
1. Bot, Mise., 1,156, t. 44 5733.— MiErs, 
3 376; Contrih., 
, A5. 
Gen., n. 5731: — Murs, in Anx. Nat. em; 
Ser- 3, V, 370; Contrib., 1, 273, t. 38.— in Ann. Nat. Hist., loc. cit., 
B.H., Gen,, 383, n. 29. — 
Li : 
; 
Tetrapasma Don, 1, 279, t. 39. 
4. Integumento duplici. 
