90 Plants Collected in Paraguay. 



I note a few points of difference among those here enumerated. 

 No. too is a glandular, much-branched herbaceous plant from 3 to 

 6 dm. high. The petiolar gland is erect, acute, one between the 

 base of each pair of leaflets. Stamens 5-*7, perfect, unequal. Fruit 

 a small, flat, glandular-hairy legume 3-4 cm. long and ^ cm. wide, 

 containing 6-8 seeds. Found in old cultivated fields. 



Cassia alata, L., Sp. PL, 378. 



Asuncion (643). April. 



A coarse, rank, showy-flowered shrub, much branched, 2-3 m. 

 high, cultivated in Asuncion gardens and running wild. Pinnae 

 8-11 pairs; leaflets oblong or obovate, 6-10 cm. long, 3-6 cm. broad. 

 Flowers very numerous, in long terminal racemes. Legume long, 

 2-winged, the wings on opposite sides and with many cross ribs 

 which correspond to the septa, containing as many seeds as there 

 are septa, 10-12 cm. in length and 1-1^ cm. wide. 



Cassia Mcapsularis, L., Sp. PI., 376. 



Asuncion (631). March-April. 



A smooth shrub 2-2j m. in height, growing in the environs of 

 Asuncion. Leaflets large, 4 or 5 pairs, with a thick, greenish, 

 oblong, top-shaped or almost globular gland between the lowest pair, 

 and the whole leaf 8 or 10 cm. in length. Flowers showy, 2-3 cm. 

 in diameter when expanded. Stamens 10, 1 perfect and 3 abortive. 

 Pod nearly cylindrical, often 16 cm. long and only ^ cm. in diame- 

 ter, with 2 furrows on opposite sides. On the Pilcomayo River in 

 fruit. 



Cassia corym'boga, Lam., Encjc, i, 644. 



Asuncion (776); Pilcomayo River (1095 and 1096). May-June. 



A shrub some 2 m. or more in height. Leaves with 2-4 leaflets 

 and an oval or globular gland between the first pair. Flowers 

 few, rather small. Pod 10-15 cm. long, 1 cm. in diameter, with 2 

 convex sides and 2 deep furrows. Not common. 



Cassia leptocarpa, Benth., Liunaea, xxii, 528. 



Asuncion (82). November. 



A shrub with smooth, striate stem, some 2 m. in height, growing 

 in thickets about Asuncion. Leaflets 5 or 6 pairs. Flowers moder- 

 ately large, but showy. Stamens 10, in 3 groups, 2 long, 4 shorter, 

 all 6 fertile, the other 4 short and abortive. Fruit a thick, angular 



