82 Plants Collected in Paraguay. 



minutely silvery dotted. Leaves binate, that is with a pair of 

 linear, divaricate leaflets at the end of the petiole, but so few that 

 the stem appears almost naked. Stipules peculiar, being acute, 

 striate, and attached in the middle, that is wdth a flap below the 

 point of attachment nearly as long as the upper part. Flowers in 

 terminal spikes, each under a pair of bracts which are just like the 

 stipules. Standard large, purple and yellow, with deeper purple 

 stripes. Calyx of 6 segments, one of which is larger than the rest 

 and ciliate hairy. Fruit a loment of Y or 8 joints, each joint covered 

 with prickles. 



Zornia dipliylla (L.), Pers., var. latifolia (D.C.), Beiith., 1. c, 81. 



Caballero (398). January. 



This form is quite leafy, the leaflets ovate-lanceolate, 2-3 cm. or 

 more long, and 5-14 mm. broad. The delicate yellow flow^ers are 

 nearly hidden by a pair of large, oval, striate bracts. 



Meibomia alMflora (Salzm.), Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL, i, 97. 



Asuncion (105 a). November-December. 



This genus, so far as my experience goes, is very poorly repre- 

 sented in Paraguay. The species here noted has a very slender 

 prostrate puberulent stem, 3-3^ dm. long. Leaflets round-ovate or 

 ovate, 3-5 cm. long and 14-3| cm. wide, sparsely hairy. Flowers 

 pale rose color. Stipules free, cordate, lanceolate, very acute, 

 strongly nerved. Loment 1-4 cm. long, of 2-t very hairy joints. 



Meibomia barbata (L.), Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL, 195. 



Caballero (408). January. 



Stem erect, much branched, very downy, 3-6 dm. high. Leaf- 

 lets obovate, rounded, and retuse at the apex, glabrous above, pubes- 

 cent beneath, 2-3 cm. long and 1-2 cm. or a little more in breadth. 

 Stipules longer than in No. 105 a, lanceolate, acuminate, striate. 

 Flowers small, rose-colored, in glomerate spikes or heads. Calyx 

 woolly. Bracts like the stipules. 



Meibomia Clineata (H. and A.), Kuntze, L c, 197. 



Asuncion (159) ; Pilcomayo River (937). November-February. 



This plant, which grows in old fields around Asuncion, 1-lJ m. 

 in height, occurs also on the campos along the Pilcomayo, where it 

 attains a height of 3 m. The flowers are rose-colored, in great masses 



