62 Plants Collected in Paraguay. 



Melocliia subcordata, Morong, n. sp. 



Stem about 1 m. high, stout, softly and densely fuscous hairy, simple or 

 divergently branching at the summit. Leaves broadly ovate, subcordate, or 

 the upper ones elliptical, unequally dentate, the teeth tipped with black points, 

 stellately fuscous hairy on both sides, palmately 5-7 nerved, the largest col- 

 lected 11 cm. long and 8 cm. broad at the base. Petioles 3-6 cm. long. Sti- 

 pules subulate, 3-5 mm. long, deciduous. Inflorescence branched, elongated, 

 the flowers spicate, in interrupted glomerules. Calyx purple-tinted, hairy, 

 with 5 acute lobes, a little more than ^ as long as the corolla, subtended by 

 3 subulate bracteoles. Petals light purple, broad and outwardly curved at 

 the apex, whitish and clawed at the base, 6-8 mm. long, staminate column 

 connate with the petals below ; anthers nearly sessile on the column, closely 

 investing the style. Stigmas 5, projecting above the anthers, plumose ; ovary 

 silky hairy. Capsule obovoid, 3 mm. long, marked by small tubercles to the 

 middle and white hairy above ; seeds obtusely 3-angled, dark, puberulent. 



Open places near Luque (292) ; railway track at Caballero (462). 

 December-January. 



Melochia Morongii^ Britton, n. sp. 



Erect, densely pubescent, branched, 4-6 dm. high. Stem and branches 

 terete ; petioles terete, about 1 cm. long ; leaves ovate-lanceolate ; prominently 

 pinnately-veined, th(^ veins impressed on the upper surface, crenate-dentate, 

 obtuse or obtusish at the apex, rounded at the base, 4-5 cm. long, 1-1^ cm. 

 wide, pubescent on both sides ; inflorescence densely capitate, terminal, and 

 opposite the leaves, peduncles 2-4 cm. long ; heads about 2 cm. in diameter ; 

 corolla about 8 mm. long ; calyx 5-lobed to beyond the middle, the lobes lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate ; capsule pyramidal, 5-angled, the 5 carpels loculicidally 

 dehiscent, triangular, 4 mm. long, tipped with a beak of about one-half their 

 length. 



Asuncion (201 a). November. Apparently nearest to 31. parm- 

 folia, H. B. K. 



Melochia pyramidata, L., Sp. PL, 774. 



Asuncion (697). May. 



Melocliia Tenosa, Sw., Prod. Flor. Ind. Oc. 97. 

 Caballero (403). January. 



Melocliia venosa, Sw., var. polystachya (H. B. K.), Schum., Mart. 

 Fl. Bras., xii, pt. 3, 37. 



Caballero (403 a) ; between Yilla Rica and Escoba (588). January. 



This species is densely fuscous woolly all over. Blades of the 



leaves 5-8 cm. long and 1-3 cm. broad, unequally serrate ; petioles 



