84 Plants Collected in Paraguay. 



lets ovate, entire, glabrous above, appressed pubescent beneath, 

 obtuse at either end, 2-4 cm. long and 1-1^ cm. wide. Peduncles 

 usually longer than the petioles. Corolla light yellow. Pod pubes- 

 cent, 4 or 5 cm. long. 



]>ioclea rellexa. Hook., f. Fl. Nigr., 30G. 



Caballero (472). January. 



A liana with stems almost as large as cables, clambering over 

 trees 12-16 m. in height, and overpowering them with its multi- 

 tude of branches. It bears large spikes of magnificent bluish-pur- 

 ple flowers, but unfortunately the flowers, as well as the leaves, 

 drop off in the process of drying, so that herbarium specimens afford 

 but a very faint idea of the inflorescence as seen in its native woods. 

 The fruit is a large silky fuscous-hairy legume. 



CanaTalia ensiformis (L.), D.C. Prod., ii, 404. 

 C. gladiata, D.C, 1. c. 



Asuncion (639 and 694). March-May. 



A liana with a stout, strong stem, climbing over shrubs and trees 

 6-10 m. in height. Flowers in axillary racemes, yellow and pur- 

 ple, quite showy. The standard is a large, long, twisted body, 

 curiously convolute and lobed ; keel tubular, closed around the 

 stamens and style, with a somewhat enlarged base, closely coiled 

 up and 8 or 10 cm. in length. Fruit a narrow, sharp-pointed pod 

 from 10-20 cm. in length, or often a ponderous bean-like pod, 25 cm. 

 long and 3 or 4 cm. broad, flat, with 2 sharp, longitudinal angles 

 near the top, concave in the centre, and containing from 10 to 20 

 small seeds lying crosswise and separated by thick partitions. 



PliaseolllS campestris, Mart. ; Benth., Aim. Mus. Vlnd., ii, 141. 



Pilcomayo River (904). February-March. 



Reminding me of the sweet pea in looks, but with a flower much 

 inferior to that in beauty. Twining about small plants and bushes. 

 Stems and petioles fuscous-hairy. Flowers yellow, two or three 

 together, on a hairy peduncle about 20 cm. in length, the standard 

 round, emarginate, spreading, 1-2 cm, high. Fruit a fuscous-hairy 

 pod, 5 or 6 cm. long and 5 mm. wide, containing 7 or 8 black, 

 smooth, irregularly shaped seeds marked with the white scar of 

 the hilum. This pea was very abundant about our camp on the 

 Pilcomayo River. 



