94 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



pilose ; anthers subpeltate, 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-lobedat stigmatose apex. Fruit "carcerular chartaceous very 

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

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

 of CoUetta^" 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 

 soarious ; inflorescence and other characters of Retanilla or Colletia. 



38? Trevoa Mibes.^ — 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 cucuUate. 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 Talgmnea) ; testa nitid, 

 raphe lateral percurrent; micropyle finally lateral ; albumen fleshy ; 

 cotyledons of straight embryo suborbicular or shortly elliptical; 

 radicle short inferior.— Very 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, Chili.*) 



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



2 Spec. 2. Grin, and Hook. Bot. Misc. i. 168, 32. 



t. 45 B. (r»-«!)o«).— Beet, from Colla, Mem. ■* Spec. 5 (Miebs). 'E.qo^. Bot. Misci. 157; 



Torin. xxxvii. 53, t. 7 {Golktia).—G. Gay, Fl. iii. 174 {Setanilla).—C. Gay, Fl. Chil.' u 27 



Chil. ii. 23 {Trevoa). -Walf. Ann yu. 607. {mmilla), 31 {Colletia). -Walv. Am, YJii. 607, 



3 Trav. Chili, 629 ; Ann. Nat. Bist. ser, 3, v. 



