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are mostly from the southern parts of the same country, and one 
is from New Zealand : hence the generic name, from voto?, auster ; 
(f)acvofiaL, appareo. They sometimes form very leafy shrubs, 
at other times low decumbent bushes, bare of spines. Here we 
generally see a spineless branchlet issuing from below each spine, 
and bearing both leaves and flowers, which quite confirms the 
supposition that the scaly tubercle seen in Colletia and other 
genera is only a very abbreviated or suppressed branchlet. 
Notoph.bna, gen. nov. ; — Calyx urceolato-campanulatus, usque 
ad medium 4-5-fidus, laciniis reflexis, intus carina prominula 
calloque apicali notatis, sestivatione valvatis, imo demum cir- 
cumscissus. Petala nulla. Stamina 4-5, tubo calycino inter 
lacinias inserta ; filamenta filiformia, laciniis breviora, erecta ; 
antherce ovatse, 2-lob£e, 2-loculares, loculis rima longitudinali 
antice hiantibus. Discus pateriformis, hypogynus, imo tubi 
adnatus, margine brevi, libero, crenato. Ovarium superum, 
globosum, saepe pilosum, 3-sulcatum, 3-loculare; ovula in 
loculis solitaria, erecta. Stylus brevis, calycis tubum sequans. 
Stigma obtusum, breviter 3-lobum. Fructus siccus, sub- 
globosus, cupula calycina discoque sufipultus et adnatus, in 
coccos 3 resiliens ; istis seminibusque ut in Colletia. 
SuflTrutices (vel arbusculae) Chilenses, Magellanici et Novae Zelan- 
dici, ramulis decussatis, elongatis, spinosis vel scepius inermi- 
bus; foliis oppositis, ellipticis, crenulato-dentatis, discoloribus ; 
floribus parvis, infra spinas, axillaribus, pedunculatis, solitariis, 
vel fasciculatis. 
1. Notophcena serratifolia, nob. Colletia serratifolia. Vent, [non 
Hook.) Hort. Cels. 92. tab. 15 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 28 ; Brongn. 
Ann. Sc. Nat. x. 366; Lam. Diet. Suppl. ii. 312; id. Illustr. 
pi. 930. Rhamnus Spartium, Dombey, — ramosa, ramis ra- 
mulisque patentissimis, virgatis, sub-4-gonis, sublaevibus, 
glaberrimis, parce foliosis, subspinosis, spinis longiuscuhs, 
foliosis, apice calloso-pungentibus, patentibus; foliis inter- 
nodiis aequilongis, saepe 3, fasciculatis, oblongis, vel lineari- 
oblongis, apice bisinuatis et mucronatis, imo in petiolum 
brevem attenuatis, breviter serrato-denticulatis, dentibus 
glanduliferis, crassiusculis, enerviis, utrinque glaberrimis, 
subtus pallide flavis, stipulis navicularibus, linea transversali 
prominente inter se nexis, nodis hinc quasi articulatis ; floribus 
axillaribus, subsolitariis, pedunculo calyce longiore, filiformi ; 
calycis tubo brevi, imo inflato, limbi laciniis 5, brevibus, re- 
flexis, staminibus ori insitis, stylo exserto. — Chile. — v. s. in 
herb. Mus. Paris, “ Perou ” (sine dubio erroneo), Dombey. 
This species differs from the following, with which it has been 
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