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41295 to 41314— Continued. 



mucronate, about 3 inches long and 1 inch across; caducous petiolar 

 stipules lanceolate triangular, acute; axillary, long pedunculate cymes of 

 white flowers with salver-shaped 5-lobed corollas, smooth within, sericeous 

 without, less than half an inch long, and three to four bony-seeded cylin- 

 drical ovoid drupes one-third of an inch in diameter. (Adapted from 

 Chamisso and Schlechtendal, Linnaea, vol. .$, p. 183, 1829.) 



41303. Alegria divaricata (Martius) Stuntz. Tiliacere. Soto caballo. 

 (Luehea divaricata Mart.) 



Handsome tree 20 to 50 feet high with graceful ashy-tomentose 

 branches, oblong, rarely elliptic or oblong-lanceolate leaves, 4 inches long 

 and 2 inches broad ; terminal paniculate inflorescences of rather large 

 white to rose-colored flowers. Found along river banks in the forests of 

 Brazil. (Adapted from Martius, Flora Brasilicnsis, vol. 12, part 3, p. 159, 

 1886.) 



41304. Maba sp. Diospyrace*. 



An ebenaceous tree with alternate, entire leaves, and small flowers 

 almost sessile in their axils. Known as Maba in Argentina, where it is 

 used for its timber. 



Received as Maba argentinensis Speg., for which a place of publication 

 has not yet been found. 



41305. Myeoxylon salzmanni (Clos) Kuntze. Flacourtiaceae. 

 (Xylosma salzmanni Eichl.) Ira-poita. 



A small spiny tree 10 to 15 feet in height, with somewhat variable 

 leaves, usually ovate-oblong to ovate, more or less crenate-dentate, 2 to 4 

 inches long and 1 to 2 inches broad; and dioecious inconspicuous greenish 

 yellow flowers borne in umbellate fascicles. Native of Brazil. (Adapted 

 from Martius, Flora Brasilicnsis, vol. 13, part 1, p. }.fS, 1871.) 



41306. Piptadenia rigida Beutham. Mimosacerc. 



" Unarmed mimosaceous shrub or small tree, entirely glabrous or with 

 the younger parts slightly pubescent; leaves composed of four to six pairs 

 of many-paired linear falcate leaflets and axillary short spikes of small 

 white flowers." (Bcntham, in Hooker's Journal of Botany, vol. '/. p. 338, 

 187,2.) 



41307. Plazia argentea (Don) Kuntze. Asteracese. 

 {Hyalis argentea Don.) 



A composite shrub from Argentina called olivillo. Reported by Tweedie 



to grow to the exclusion of almost everything else on (he salt plains of 

 northern Argentina. 



41308. Pterogyne nitens Till. Caesalpiniacese. Viraro. 



A tall, stout, unarmed tree abundant in parts of Argentina and Brazil. 

 It has pari-pinnate leaves, with usually alternate, lanceolate leaflets; and 

 small flowers in short, loosely flowered, axillary clusters. (Adapted from 

 Engler and Prantl, Die Natiirlicfien Pflanzenfamilien, vol. S, purl ■>, 

 p. 130.) 



"The wood is very strong and resistant. It is used for the construc- 

 tion of carts, except for the spokes. It is considered an excellent wood 

 in Misiones and is exported. In Salta it is also highly valued and is 

 used in coach making." (S. Venturi, Contribution al Conotimiento de 

 los Arbolcs dc la Argentina.) 



