Plants Collected in Paraguay. 65 



Prockea Criicis, L., Sp. PL, Ed. 2, 745. 



Asuncion (827). November. 



A shrub 2-3 m. high with brown, smooth bark. Leaves nearly 

 glabrous and shining above, downy beneath, acuminate at the apex, 

 narrowed and subcordate at base, serrate, the teeth with blunt cal- 

 lous points, palmately 5-nerved, 3-10 cm. long and 2^-7 cm. broad, 

 on petioles 8-15 mm. long, stipules large, lunate, toothed, amplexi- 

 caul. Flowers in short axillary racemes. Flowers about 5 mm. 

 high. Calyx lobes downy, ovate, abruptly acute at the apex, re- 

 flexed. Petals none. Stamens numerous, j^ellow. Ovary and 

 young fruit downy. Each flower is on a downy pedicel 3-10 mm. 

 long. 



The genus Prockea, is referred by Eichler to the Bixinese. 



ERYTHROXYLACEJE. 



JErytliroxylon micropliylliiiii, St. Hil., var. cuneifolium, Pey- 

 ritsch., Mart. Flor. Bras., xii, pt. 1, 134. 



Pilcomayo River (946). February. 



A straggingly-branched shrub, with light brown, very warty bark, 



4 or 5 m. high, branches mostly short. Leaves ciineate, 1-H cm. 

 long, 5-7 mm. broad, retuse. Found only in fruit, a flattish, angled, 

 1-seeded berry, when ripe pulpy and dark red, about 5 mm. long 

 and 3 mm. wide. The persistent calyx has 5 ovate, acute lobes. 

 This shrub occurs only rarely along the banks of the Pilcomayo. 

 The ends of the branches are bare and sometimes inclined to be 

 spinescent. 



MALPIGHIACE-^. 

 Dicella liracteosa, Gris., Linnsea, xiii, 250. Ex descr. 



Between Yilla Rica and Escoba (479). January. 



A large tree. Leaves opposite, lanceolate, cuspidate, entire, 

 glabrous and shining above, sparsely hairy beneath except on the 

 nerves, the hairs often bicuspidate, 5-10 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, on 

 slender petioles 6-8 mm. long, which are biglandular near the mid- 

 dle. Flowers in terminal panicles 10-15 cm. long. Sepals 5, oblong, 



5 or 6 mm. long, silky with appressed hairs outside, whitish inside, 

 bearing 8 large glands. Petals none. The nut is nearly 2 cm. long, 

 obovate, covered, especially at the base, with silky, fuscous, appressed 

 hairs, not crested and angled as described in Flor. Bras., but even, 



Annals N. Y. Acad. Sci., VII, Dec. 1892.— 5 



