COLLET'IA SPINO'SA 
SPINY COLLETIA. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RHAMNACEA. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
Peru. 
4 feet. 
May, July. 
Shrub. 
in 1823. 
No. 1094 
The genus Colletia was named by Commerson, 
in honour of his friend Collet, a French botanical 
author. 
This plant is the Colletia polycantha, of Will- 
denow, and is found in a wide range of country in 
Chile and Brazil, as well as Peru. Its leaves are 
very inconspicuous, its awl-shaped spines and pale 
campanulate flowers, constitute its most prominent 
characters. It has in some degree the aspect of a 
Furze bush, and its perpetual green colour is one 
of its recommendations. The London Horticultural 
Society were, we believe, the first to test the powers 
of this plant in withstanding frost, previously to 
which it had long been cultivated as a greenhouse 
shrub. Trained to a wall, in a dry situation, it has, 
in several gardens, home severe winters, but we have 
not seen it planted in the open borders or shrubbery. 
We are informed, however, that in a dry, sandy, 
soil, and sheltered situation, it has grown for several 
years, without protection. 
There are two ciicumstances in the economy of 
this genus of plants, which naturally force them- 
selves on our notice. These are, their armature, or 
