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paullo supra calycem dilatato ; staminibus inclusis; disco lato, crassiusculo, 
ovarium oblongum, compressum, puberulum, circa $ equante ; ovulis 4-seriatis. 
Hab. In ripis viget fll. Paraguay, dos Bugres, et Brasinho, ubi flores mens. Oct. 
probet. (Nn. 433, 627, 634.) 
Foliola ad 10:5 cm. long. (pleraque vero 7:5-9:0 cm.) et 3:0—4-5 cm. lat., glandulis vix 
pellucidis crebre instructa; coste secundarie utroque latere 6-8, distantes vel 
suboppositee, inferiores oblique insertz, supreme patentes; petioli vix ad 3°0 em. 
long. (plerique 1:0-2:5 cm.), patentes vel recurvi, petioluli plerumque 0:8-1:0 
em. long.; cirrhi usque ad 13:0 em. long. ; stipulee plerzeque circa 1:5 cm. long. et 
1:0 cm. lat, glandulose. Pedunculi 0:2-0:3 cm. long. patenti-pubescentes. 
Pedicelli +1:0 em. long., patenti-pubescentes. Calyx subcarnosulus, fere glaber, 
0:8 cm. long. ore 0'7-0:9 em. lat., plus minus ciliato. Corolla fere glabra, alba, 
tubo dilute viridi in toto 5:0 em. long. ; tubus basi vix 0:5 em. lat., sub limbo paullo 
ultra 1:0 em. amplificatus, 4-0 cm. long., intus juxta staminum insertionem albo- 
pubescens, ceterum glaber; limbi 3:0 cm. diam., lobi rotundato-ovati, obtusissimi, 
subzquales, 1:2-1:3 cm. lat. Filamenta 1:5 cm. supra basin corolle inserta, 
complanata, crassa, glabra; anthere glabra, vix 0°35 cm. long. et 01 cm. lat. 
Discus circa 0:15 cm. alt. Ovarium 0'4 em. long., superne sensim attenuatum ; 
stylus complanatus, glaber, 4'0 cm. long.; stigma brevissime exsertum, lobi sui 
ovati, acuminati, vix 0:3 em. long. 
Anemopegmati albe, Mart., proximum, speciei mihi nisi descriptione ignotze; ab ea, 
attamen, stirpem meam facili negotio secernere potes, preter alia, ob folia nunquam 
3-foliolata. [ Bras. Or. | 
PITHECOCTENIUM SQUALUS, DC. Prod. ix. p. 194. 
Hab. In sylvestribus ad Corumbá mens. Jan. florescit. (N. 979.) [Bras. Or. | 
TABEBUIA NODOSA, Griseb. Pl. Lorentz. p. 175 (ex descript.). 
Frutex altus vel arbuscula. Flores lutei. (N. 1053.) 
Hab. Viget in ditione Chacoensi ad Puerto Pacheco, mens. Feb. florens. 
I have no hesitation in naming my specimens as above. The species, curiously 
enough, is closely allied to some Cuban ones, notably 7. trachycarpa, Griseb., as Grisebach 
himself notes. [Argentina.] 
TABEBUIA CHAPADENSIS (sp. nov.). Fere glabra, fruticosa, ramosa, ramis validis, teretibus, 
glabris, sparsim foliatis; foliis longius petiolatis, trifoliolatis, foliolis breviter petiolu- 
latis, ovatis, utrinque rotundatis, apice emarginatis, coriaceis, penninervibus ; costis 
secundariis utroque latere 5-6 sub margine areuatis; floribus pedicellatis in 
racemum corymbiformem pauciflorum, foliis breviorem, e ramis defoliatis ortum 
dispositis; bracteis minutis, quam pedicelli multoties brevioribus ; calycis tubuloso- 
campanularis ore breviter 5-dentato ; corolle calycem circa 5-plo excedentis 
tubo curvato, inferne gracili, ima basi vero ampliore et superne sensim dilatato; 
