RHAMNACEiE. 



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the rhachis filiform, bearing interrupted fascicles of flowers on rather 

 slender pedicels (about 2 lines long) . Calyx flat, glabrous, a line and 

 a half in diameter after expansion, rather thin. Stamens not longer 

 than the convolute petals. Style short, flattish, emarginate, in the 

 oldest flowers showing some disposition to enlarge. Fruit wholly 

 unknown : so that the genus cannot be positively determined. 



2. ZIZYPHUS, Tourn. 

 1. Ziztphus Jujuba, Lam. 

 Hab. St. Jago, Cape de Verde Islands. Indigenous ? 



3. CONDALIA, Oav. 



1. CONDALIA LINE ATA, Sp. Nov. 



O. glabra; ramis divaricatis spinosis; foliis spathulatis vel obovatis 

 mucronatis crasso-coriaceis supra aveniis subtus nervoso-lineatis ; drupa 

 oblonga. 



Hab. Kio Negro, North Patagonia. 



A much branched, spinose shrub, entirely glabrous throughout ; the 

 branches divaricate, alternate. Leaves alternate, or mostly fascicled on 

 alternate spurs, spahdate, obovate, or oblong-obovate, slightly petioled, 

 from 2 to 5 lines in length, mucronate, or those of young branches con- 

 spicuously and abruptly cuspidate- acuminate, of a thick and coriaceous 

 texture, entire, the upper surface veinless, the lower lineate with 3 or 4 

 broadish and impressed nerve-like veins on each side of the midrib, 

 which is scarcely more prominent than the veins; the intervening 

 spaces narrow. Flowers not seen, except the occasional vestiges of 5 

 whitish lobes of the calyx, the tube of which girts the base of the 

 fruit, and of as many stamens alternate with these and nearly equal- 

 ling them in length. Petals apparently wanting. Fructiferous pedi- 



