Plants Collected in Paraguay 75 



Schmeidelia edulis, Camb. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merdi. 



Asuncion (844). October. 



A shrub with smooth dark-gray bark, covered with white dots, 

 1^-2 m. hig-h. Leaves ternate ; common petiole about 2 cm. long, 

 downy; leaflets elliptical, glabrous above, downy on the veins be- 

 neath, pointed at either end, sessile or subsessile, irregularly serrate 

 above, the largest collected 4^ cm. long and 2^ cm. wide. Found 

 only in fruit. Berries small, red, in small axillary clusters, on 

 peduncles 12 mm. to 2 cm. long. 



Cupania Teriialis^ Camb. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. 



Asuncion (152). June. = Balansa 2473. 



A tree with dark-grayish bark, smooth or somewhat fissured be- 

 low, fuscous-downy on the young shoots, 10-15 m. high. Leaves 

 alternate, pinnate ; petioles 2-7 cm. long ; petiolules very short ; 

 leaflets 5-7 pairs, oblong, rounded at the apex and base, the largest 

 collected 10-12 cm. long and 3 or 4 cm. wide, serrate, shining 

 above, a little downy on the prominent veins beneath. Flowers 

 small, white, or greenish-white, in axillary compound racemes, the 

 rachis and sepals downy. Flowers fragrant. Common name as 

 given to me by a native Paraguayan, Petato. 



Tliouinia Paragiiayensis, Britton, n. sp. 



A stout, climbing, tendril-bearing vine, tlie young twigs densely and finely 

 pubescent, angular. Leaves 3-foliolate ; petioles 3-4 cm. long ; leaflets 

 stalked, thick, densely and finely pubescent beneath, glabrate above, broadly 

 ovate, truncate but decurrent on the petiole, obtuse at the apex, remotely 

 serrate, 3-4 cm. long, and about as wide ; flowers minute, in subglobose, com- 

 pound cymes ; cymes axillary, peduncled ; samaras 3, 3 cm. long, the wing 

 obliquely obovate, twice as long as the seed. 



Road to Lambare in thickets (625 a). May. 



Melicocca lepidopetala, Radlk., Sitz. Akad. Mun., 1878, 344. 



Asuncion (817). 



A large tree from 10 to 18 m. in height, often planted as a shade 

 tree about dwelling-houses in Asuncion, for which it is well adapted 

 by its numerous branches and crowded, evergreen leaves. The 

 native name, as it was spelled to me by a Guarani scholar is Ibapobo, 

 pronounced in English, as nearly as it can be represented, ivapuyu. 

 It bears one of the most highly esteemed native fruits, which are 

 often sold in the Asuncion market. This is about the size of a 



