382 Ex herbario Hassleriano: Novitates paraguarienses. III. 
einer unserer beiden Sektionen nachgewiesen ist, als eigene Sektion auf- 
recht erhalten werden. 
Die Gattung würde sich also folgendermassen zusammensetzen: 
_Asterochlaena Garcke, L e. emend. Hassler. 
Sect. I. Pseudo-asterochlaena Hassler, nov. sect. 
Capsula decemvalvis primo septicide, dein loculicide dehiscens. 
74. Asterochlaena (Pseudoasterochlaena) Morongii (Sp. Moore) Hassler, 
nov. nom. 
Pavonia Morongii Sp. Moore in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. Vol, IV, 
p. 313; — haud descript. a Morong and Britton data in Ann. N. Y. 
Acad. Sc., VII, p. 58 quae potius lato sensu cum varietatem nostram 
quadrat. 
Hab. Matto Grosso meridionalis et ? flumen Pilcomayo. 
Var. viscosa Hassler, nov. var. 
Differt caulibus, petiolis, pedunculisque pilis brevibus  glanduliferis 
. crispulis, hirsuto-tomentosulis, pilis longioribus simplicibus sparse inter- 
mixtis, foliis supra pilis stellatis appressis minimis pubescentibus vel 
tomentosulis, subtus eodem indumento sed densiore praeditis, pilis 
stellatis appressis majusculis sparsis, intermixtis, foliis adultis concolori- 
bus, novellis subtus albicantibus, foliis grosse crenato-serratis, crenis 
apice barbellatis. 
Gran Chaco: Ad margines silvarum in regione cursus inferioris 
fluminis Pilcomayo, flor. et fruct. mens. Maj., Rojas no. 158. 
Sect. II. Euasterochlaena Hassler. 
Capsula loculicide et septicide decemvalvis (ex Garcke |. cit.). 
15. Asterochlaena cuspidata Garcke, Bot. Zeitung, 1850, p. 668. 
Species nobis e descriptione tantum nota, in loco natali observanda 
verisim. ad sect. sequentem tribuenda. | 
Sekt. III. Pseudopavonia (Hassler) Hassler, nov. sect. 
Pseudopavonia Hassler sub genere in Fedde, Repert., VII, p. 74. 
Capsula primo loculicide, dein septicide dehiscens, decemvalvis. 
76. Asterochlaena (Pseudopavonia) Balansae (Gürcke) Hassler. 
= Pavonia Balansae Gürcke in Flor. Bras., XII, 3, p. 507. 
Hab. Paraguaria centralis. 
Subspec. tenax (Hassler) Hassler, nov. subspec. 
Pseudopavonia tenax Hassler in Fedde, Repert., VII, p. 74. 
Differt indumento viscoso-glanduloso caulis, ramorum,  petiolorum 
peduneulorumque, foliis longius petiolatis, omnibus + distincte 3—5 
lobatis, acutius dentatis, margine glanduloso-piloso, pedunculis longiori- 
bus, involucro usque ad 12-phyllo, calyce vulgo breviore, petalis majori- 
bus, stylo et tubo stamineo longioribus, semine sparse puberulo. 
Subspec. nostra formis variis intermediis cum typo conjuncta, indu- 
mento viscoso-glanduloso imprimis diversa. 
Forma « genuina Hassler. 
Gran Chaco: Fiebrig no. 1466. Typus Pseudopavoniae tenacis nob. 
