74 Plants Collected in Paraguay. 



the dried specimens being about IJ cm. long, and as wide or wider 

 at the base. 



Cardiosperniiim Halicacaliuiii, L., Sp. PL, 366. 



Asuncion (650). April. Pilcomayo River (891). January. 



Cardiospermuni grandiflorum, Sw., Fl. Ind. Occ, ii, 698. (C. 

 velutinum, H. and A.) 



Asuncion (238). December. 



A liana climbing by tendrils. Stem striate, angled, pubescent, 

 becoming glabrate with age. Leaves ternate or biternate ; rachis 

 2-4 cm. long. Leaflets ovate, 2-2|^ cm. long, and 1^-3^ cm. wide, 

 pubescent beneath, crenate-serrate or lobed, the teeth and lobes 

 mucronate or with a callous point. Flowers white, T or 8 mm. 

 high, numerous, in small corymbose clusters. Common peduncle 

 5-7 cm. long, striate, hirtulose. Tendrils twin at the summit of the 

 peduncle under the flowers. Pod ovoid, 4 or 5 cm. long, 2-2|- cm. 

 broad in the middle, pubescent, a light yellow when fully mature. 



Pailllinia elegans, Camb., St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. 



Asuncion (153, 387 and 764); Trinidad (737); Pilcomayo River 

 (916 and 1092). November-June. 



A climbing vine, running over shrubs and tall trees with coriace- 

 ous, shining, pinnate leaves, the pinnae of 2 pairs and one odd leaflet. 

 Flowers white, small, in axillary racemes, 8-10 cm. in length, on 

 long peduncles. The stem is that of a strong, woody liana, with 

 the tendrils generally two, at the base of the leaves. The fruit is 

 the most conspicuous part of the plant, consisting of numerous 

 bright red berries, as large as a cranberry, containing 3 shining 

 black seeds, which are enveloped, like those of Euonymus, in a 

 white, mealy aril that covers about one-half of the seed. The juice, 

 though scanty, is milky, showing more clearly in the unripe fruit 

 than in the stems. 



Paullinia piniiata^ L., Sp. PL, 366. 



Asuncion (373); Pilcomayo River (892). January. 



This Paullinia' diners from the preceding species in having winged 

 petioles, pear-shaped and obtusely 3-angled fruit, with tendrils both 

 on the stem and at the ends of the peduncles, the whole plant very 

 glabrous. Leaflets oblong, with a few large obtuse teeth. Pedun- 

 cles 8-10 cm. long. 



