50 Plants Collected in Paraguay. 



CAPPARIDACE^. 

 Cleome aculeata, L. Syst., Ed. 12, iii, App., p. 232. 

 Asuncion (lit and ll'T a). November. 



Gynandropsis pentaphylla (L.), D. C, Prod., i, 238. 



Asuncion (348). December. 



6-9 dm. high. Flowers large, purple, showy. Leaves on long 

 petioles, 5-foliolate. Stem, petioles, and the dorsal nerves of the 

 leaves beset with glandular hairs and small prickles. Peduncles, 

 petals, and ovary with yellow glands. Pods 3^-4 cm. in length, on 

 long peduncles, jointed about ^ way up. 



Capparis cynopliallopliora, L., Sp. PL, 504. 



Asuncion (763). July. 



Found only in fruit. A small tree 5-6 m. high, with flexuous 

 greenish-yellow branches, glabrous, with small black warts on the 

 bark. Leaves simple, alternate, elliptical or oval, coriaceous, shin- 

 ing above, greenish-yellow, shortly petioled, the blades about 1 cm. 

 long, and 3 cm. wide. Pods in clusters of 1-5, often as much as 

 30 cm. long, cylindrical, moniliform, the outside greenish-yellow or 

 brown, the interior lining red. 



Thickets near Asuncion. 



Capparis declinata, Veil., Fl. Flum., v, t. iii. 



Pilcomayo River (946 a). In fruit. January. 

 Similar to No. 763, but with smaller leaves and pods. 



Capparis Tweediana, Eichl., Mart. Fl. Bras., xiii, pt. 1, 273. 



Pilcomayo River (1046). May. 



Nearer C. Tweediana than C. crotonoides as described in Mart. 

 Fl. Bras., but not exactly agreeing with either. The projections of 

 the disk are 5, alternate with the stamens, looking like staminodea. 

 Leaves la'rger, petioles longer, pedicels longer than in G. Tweediana. 

 Flower bud tetragonous (not triquetrous, as in G. Tweediana). 

 Stamens 5 (in G. crotonoides 6-8). 



A common shrub or small tree on the Pilcomayo, with roundish 

 leaves, which are green and glabrous above and white tomentose 

 beneath. It blossoms late in May and then sparsely. The flowers 

 are peculiar, with 4 spreading yellowish-green sepals and as many 



