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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
generally confounded, in its green, slender, almost herbaceous 
stems and branchlets, which are somewhat angular, spreading 
nearly at a right angle, quite glabrous, furnished with spines, 
and sometimes bare of leaves, in its fewer or more deciduous, 
smaller, and nerveless leaves, in its fewer and larger flowers, and 
its larger fruit. The internodes are from l inch to 1 inch apart, 
and are almost articulated at each axil by the stipular extension 
before described ; the divaricated spines, decussating at each 
axil, are about the length of the internodes, and are foliiferous 
in their middle : in the younger floriferous branchlets, the spines 
are wanting at the nodes, from which one to three leaves spring 
on each side; the leaves are 4 to 7 lines long, li to 2 lines 
broad, bearing small glandular teeth on the margin, of which 
three, more conspicuous than the others, terminate the apex. 
The specimen from which this account is derived is the ori- 
ginal type described by Ventenat ; the flowers here have all 
fallen away, but the fruit remains, generally solitary in the axils ; 
the peduncle is 5 or 6 lines long, and the 3-lobed capsule is 
about 3 lines in diameter *. 
2. Notophana foliosa, nob. Colletia seiTatifolia, Hook, {non 
Vent.) var. /3, foliosa, Bot. Misc. iii. 173. C. crenata, Clos, 
loc. cit. 35. Rhamnus diffusus, Clos, in Gay, Chile, ii. 20; — 
arbuscula frondosa, ramis ramulisque baud patentibus, non- 
nullis spinescentibus, spiuisque erectioribus, virgatis, tereti- 
bus, striatis, pallidis, aut ssepius fusco-rubris ; ramulis novellis 
inermibus, erectiusculis, elongatis vel abbreviatis, foliiferis et 
floriferis, et infra spinas (ubi adsunt) nascentibus; stipulis 
oppositis, rubellis, latiusculis, breviter trigonis, concavis, apice 
2-dentatis, imo linea transversali circa caulem connexis ; foliis 
oppositis, ellipticis, vel oblongis, apice obtusis et mucronu- 
latis, imo acutioribus, crenulato-dentatis, dentibus ssepius fere 
obsoletis, supra Isete viridibus, subtus pallide glaucis, penni- 
uerviis, nervis fuscis anastomosantibus, glabris, vel sub lente 
parce puberulis, petiolo canaliculate, tenui; floribus 3, fasci- 
culatis ex quaque axilla ; pedunculo erecto, demum incurvo ; 
calyceque glabro, urceolato, 5-fldo; staminibus erectis, laciniis 
reflexis, sequilongis ; ovario piloso, stylo glabro, longe exserto ; 
fructu minore. — Chile. — v. s. in variis herbariis ; Valparaiso 
(Cuming, 427-637) ; Valdivia (Bridges, 594) ; Concepcion 
(Germain, sub nom. Trevoa ^-nervis ) ; in herb. Mus. Paris 
(Gay) ; Dombey, sub nom. Rhamnus Chacay. 
This is a small tree, with rather virgate branches and an 
abundant foliage of small leave.s, with long spines, or rather 
A drawing of this species is given in Plate 37 a of this work. 
