Plants Collected in Paraguay. 79 



height, growing upon the open campo. It has a stout, shrubby 

 root. 



Indigofera sa"bulicola, Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras., xv, pt. 1, 40. 



Asuncion (185). November. 



A small plant Avith thick, hard root, prostrate or ascending on 

 sandy soil. The small flowers are purple in color, in close heads, 

 or, when more developed, opening into short spikes. Leaves pin- 

 nate ; leaflets cuneate or spatulate, retuse, mucronulate, 6-12 mm. 

 long, 3-6 pairs and an odd one. Pods hairy, 13-15 mm. long. 

 Many in dense terminal clusters. 



Cracca cinerea (L.), Morong. 

 Galeya cinerea, L., Amoen. Acad., v, 403. 

 Tephrosia cinerea, Pers., Syn., ii, 329. 



Between Paragua and Luque (856). November-December. 



A small shrub 15-30 cm. high, irregularly branching, with a 

 tough, w^oody root, growing in dry soil. Flowers purple, downy, 

 quite large for the plant, the petals 1-2 cm. in length. Leaflets 

 4-6 pairs and an odd one, pubescent, obovate, 10-18 mm. long, 

 nmcronate. Pods pubescent or glabrate, 3-5 cm. long, solitary 

 or 1-4 in a cluster. 



Sesliaiiia exasperata, H. B. K., Nov. Gren., vi, 534. 



Pilcomayo Kiver (934). February-April. 



A tall shrub-like, glabrous, much-branched plant, 2-2J m. in 

 height. Flowers light yellow, in short racemes on very long, naked, 

 pendent peduncles. Leaflets 25-30 or more. Fruit in a long, loose 

 panicle at the ends of the stem and branches, consisting of an elon- 

 gated, narrow pod (often 25 cm. in length and only 4 mm. broad), 

 with a sharp pointed apex and from 40 to 50 cross-partitioned cells, 

 which contain as many small, square, flattish yellow seeds. When 

 fully ripe, the leaves fall off and leave the plant covered with these 

 long, pendent pods, thus imparting to it a very striking appearance. 

 As the lower branches are the largest, the general outline is conical. 

 The stem has a large pith in the centre, and the wood is soft. Not 

 uncommon on the banks of the Pilcomayo. 



Sesbania inargiiiata, Benth., Mart. Fl. Bras., xv, pt. 1, 43. 



Asuncion (621). February-March. 



A cassia-like looking shrub, 2^-3 m. in height, common on the 

 low lands around Asuncion. The flowers, which are quite hard to 



