64 Plants Collected in Paraguay. 



TILIACE^. 

 Triiimfetta semitriloltja, L., Mant., i, 73. 



Asuncion (116 and 132). November. 



This Florida plant is very common in old fields around Asuncion, 

 a rough-hairy shrub 4-6 dm. high, bearing small globular fruit beset 

 with hooked prickles. 



Corcliorus Iiirtus, L., Sp. PL, Ed. 2, 747. 



Asuncion (1089). June. 



A small, very hirsute plant, 12-15 cm. high, v^ith long, fibrous 

 roots. Stem simple or a little branching at base. Leaves ovate, 

 palmately 5-nerved, hirsute, often doubly crenate-serrate, 3-5 cm. 

 long, and 10-15 mm. wide, on hirsute petioles 7-12 mm. long. 

 Flowers few, axillary, yellow. 



Corcliorus pilolbolllS, Link, Enum. Hort. BeroL, ii, 72. 



Asuncion (703). May. 



Liiliea divaricata. Mart, et Zncc, Nov. Gren., i, 101, t. 63. 



Near Escoba (604). January. 



A tree 6-16 m. high, with smooth and gray bark. Young 

 branches and inflorescence pubescent. Bracteoles 6, narrower than 

 the sepals, tomentose. Calyx lobes 5, tomentose on the outside, 

 glabrous and yellow on the inside. Petals yellow, broad at the apex. 

 Flowers large. Leaves serrate, ovate or oval, slightly and obliquely 

 cordate, abruptly acute at the apex, dark green above, white tomen- 

 tose beneath, nerves conspicuous beneath, 5-10 cm. long and 2-5 cm. 

 broad. 



Ijllliea liniflora, St. HiL, Flor. Bras. Merid., i, 226, t. 57. 



Asuncion (676). April. = Balansa 2009. 



A shrub or small tree 5-8 m. in height, growing in copses 

 near Asuncion. It was only in fruit when collected, but attached 

 to the fruit were the bracteoles, which are green and thick, longer 

 than the fruit, linear-lanceolate, 8 or 10 in number. The fruit is a 

 hard, pointed, 5-winged nut, green and downy, 5 cm, long and 2 

 cm. in diameter, the spaces between the wings concave, having 5 

 narrow cells projecting from the centre of the nut to the edges of 

 the wings. Remains of the petals show them to be white, and the 

 stamens very numerous. 



