Plants Collected in Paraguay. 51 



petals, 5 long stamens, alternate with as many staminodia or disk 

 projections, and an ovary on a stellately downy stipe 2J cm. long. 

 The flowers themselves are borne on a stellately downy peduncle 

 1^-2 cm. in length. The trunk of this shrub has near the base 

 light brown scaly bark, smooth and yellowish above. 



€rataeva Tapia, L., Sp. PL, 444. 



Asuncion (820); Pilcomayo River (89t). 



A fine tree growing around Asuncion and far up on the Pilco- 

 mayo River. It reaches a height of 16 m. or more. It has a 

 smooth gray bark, and smooth, glossy, ternate leaves. The flowers 

 are white in thick clusters at the ends of the branches, on pedicels 

 2-g— 3|- cm. long. The fruit at the time I saw it, January 24, was 

 nearly as large as a lemon, on peduncles Y-12 cm. long, solitary, 

 green on the outside, with a thick white meat on the inside, contain- 

 ing many seeds irregularly disposed. The tree is known among 

 the Paraguayan natives as " Papaguayan" (name of a tribe of 

 Paraguayan Indians) or ''Indian orange," and it is said that the 

 fruit is eaten as an orange by the Indians. Its numerous, large 

 dark green leaves well adapt it for an ornamental shade tree, as 

 which it is sometimes used in Paraguay. 



Flowers in October, fruits in January. 



yiOLARI^. 



Calceolaria Brasiliensis^ Brittou. 

 Jonidium album, St. Hil., not C. alba, R. and P. 



Caballero (410). January. 



Calceolaria cominunis (St. Hil.), Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL, 41. 



Near Pirayu (662). April. 



This interesting plant growing in open woods is a suflfruticose 

 herb about 1 m. in height. The delicate white flowers are peculiar, 

 entirely losing their character in dried specimens. There are 5 free, 

 hairy, persistent sepals, and 5 distinct petals, 4 of them minute and 

 the 5th larger and standing out prominently from the rest, w4th 

 upturned edges which give it the appearance of a miniature sugar 

 scoop. Stamens 5, the 2 lowest with short white spurs ; filaments 

 broad ; anthers somewhat sagittate, the cells long and parallel, sur- 

 mounted by a brownish sharp-pointed cap. The seeds, at first shal- 

 low pitted, when fully ripe are nearly smooth, black and shining. 



