Plants Collected in Paraguay. 13 



Vitis sicyoides (L.), Baker in Mart. Fl. Bras., xi\^, pt. 2, 202. 



Asuncion (287). December. 



A tendril climber which clambers very high over tall trees. The 

 lower part of the stem appears twin, as it has a deep channel in the 

 middle which seems to divide it into two parts, while the branches 

 are merely angled or grooved. Leaves deltoid, cordate at base, 

 with a broad sinus and rounded lobes, sharply serrate, smooth on 

 both sides, on petioles 2-4 cm. long. Flowers small, waxy-yellow. 

 Fruit a 1-celled berry, containing 2 flat seeds which lie parallel with 

 each other across the cell, the sharp side uppermost. 



SAPINDACEiE. 



Serjania fuscifolia, Radlk. Mon. Serj. 221. 



Asuncion (772). May-June. 



A liana with sulcate, fuscous-downy stem. Leaves biternate or 

 triternate, on long fuscous-downy petioles ; leaflets ovate, doubly 

 serrate, nearly glabrous above and fuscous-downy beneath. Ka- 

 cemes much longer than the leaves; rachis fuscous-downy, axillary, 

 the lower part naked and 8-10 cm. long, the upper flowering part 

 of the same length. Flowers small, white. Fruit not seen. Ten- 

 drils at the base of the flowers. 



Serjania gla'brata3 H. B, K., Nov. Gen., v, 110. 



Asuncion (625). March. = Gibert 1036. 



A liana 4-8 m. high. Difi'ers from the preceding species in having 

 glabrous stems, only the young branches being puberulent. Leaf- 

 lets glabrous, lobed or with a few large teeth. Fruit a 3-winged 

 samara, the wings confluent at the base, in dried specimens when 

 the lobes are pressed together looking cordate-ovate, 2-2^ cm. long, 

 and lJ-2 cm. broad. The wings are membranous and glabrous, 

 each bearing at the apex a globose seed nearly as large as a pea. 



The flowers are on longer peduncles than in no. 772, and in 

 panicled racemes at the top of the stem, instead of being in solitary 

 racemes among the leaves as in that ; racemes much shorter, 



Serjania meridionalis, Camb. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid., i, t. 76. 



Asuncion (625 b). March. 



Found only in fruit, which is much smaller than that of no. 625, 

 the wings yellowish-brown when mature and striate, the samara in 



