Plants Collected in Paraguay. 93 



lets 2, ciliate on the margins, rounded at the apex, narrowing and 

 oblique at the base, sessile, with a weak spinulose stipel. Flowers 

 very small, axillary, on a long peduncle, which is bent downwards 

 at a sharp angle with the stem, bright yellow. Fruit a legume 

 about 3 cm. long when ripe. 



Cassia serpens, L., Sp. PL, Ed. 2, 541. 



Asuncion (236). December. 



A small trailing, branching shrub, 10-20 cm. long, growing in 

 open, sandy grounds. Roots thick, woody, apparently perennial. 

 Stem pilose. Leaflets 4-5 pairs, oblong, cuspidate, oblique at the 

 base, sessile, 3-5 nerved, 5-8 mm. long. Gland stipitate. Flowers 

 bright yellow, solitary, on filiform pedicels 1^-5 cm. long. Stamens 

 with long anthers and scarcely any filaments. Legume not quite 

 3 cm. in length. 



€iissia splendida, Vog., Syn. Cass., 17. 



Near Caballero (426). January. 



A very large-flowered and showy shrub, 1-1^ m. high, widely 

 branched. Stem smooth. Leaflets in 2 pairs, some of them 9 cm. 

 long and 4 cm. wide. Flowers almost as large as no. 665. Glands 

 horn-like, one between each of the two pairs of leaflets. Stipules 

 bristle-shaped. 



€assia Tora, L., Sp. PL, 376. 



Asuncion (175). November. 



A shrub 1-1^ m. in height, with a strong, rank odor. Stem 

 terete below, 4-gonous above, striate, covered with small black 

 glands or tubercles. Leaflets in 3 pairs, the gland thick, spotted 

 with black, looking like a wart between the two lowest pairs. 

 Flowers small, not over 1 cm. in diameter when expanded. 

 Legume 8-10 cm. in length and 4 mm. wide, squarish, on articu- 

 lated pedicels 2-3 cm. long, containing 25 or more greenish-yellow, 

 rhomboidal, slightly shining seeds. 



Bauhinia micropliylla, Vog., Linnjea, xiii, 301. 



Asuncion (284 a). December. 



A stragglingly-branched shrub or small tree from 3 to 6 m. in 

 height, armed with spines. The branches usually bend down- 

 wards. Bark purplish, smooth, striate. Leaflets a single pair, 



