Plants Collected in Paraguay. 101 



wide, irregularly moniliform, containing 4-8 oblong, flat, fuscous, 

 shining seeds. 



Annesleya parvifolia (H. and A.), Britton. 

 Inga parvifolia, H. and A. in Hook. Bot. Misc., iii, 202. 

 Calliandra bicolor, Benth. in Hook. Jour. Bot., ii, 139. 



Near Caballero (412). January. 



A beautiful plant 15-25 cm. high, growing by the railway track. 

 Leaves bipinnate ; 4 or 5 pairs of pinnae and 30 or more pairs of 

 small leaflets. The flowers are exceedingly striking, a large cluster 

 of them standing at the top of a long peduncle, the tubular corolla 

 mingled red and purple, and surmounted by a mass of long, filiform 

 or plumose purple stamens. 18 or 20 of these flowers are in the 

 cluster, each on a short pedicel. I found only 2 or 3 of these charm- 

 ing plants, though I searched long for more. They must be rare. 

 Fruit not seen. 



PitbecoloMum scalare, Gris., Symb. Flor. Arg., 123. 



Asuncion (801). October. 



A tree from 8 to 13 m. in height, with shaggy or broken, brown 

 bark. Thorny, but often unarmed ; the spines when they occur 2 

 together, diverging, at a leafy node. Leaves bipinnate ; pinnse 2-3 

 pairs, the pairs far apart. Flowers light yellow, looking much like 

 those of an Inga, which I at first took it to be. They occur in 

 axillary clusters, the corolla looking as though it were telescoped 

 by the calyx, and the stamens long and exserted. On the rachis 

 between the 3 pairs of pinnae, and also on the secondary rachis 

 between the pairs of leaflets are green scutelliform glands. In open 

 grounds on the outskirts of the city. No fruit. 



Pitliecolo1>illlIl Paraguayense, Benth., Trans. Linn. Soc, XXX, 574. 



Lympio (736). May. 



An unarmed shrub or small tree, with straggling branches, 3-6 m. 

 in height. Stem smooth, grayish-white, warty. Leaves 4-binate, 

 that is, with 2 pairs of binate leaflets, which are on a slender com- 

 mon petiole. Each pair on a divaricate petiolule, and each leaflet 

 on a short articulated petiolule of its own. Not found in flower. 

 Fruit a black, rough, or velvety pod, about 4 cm. long and 1 cm. 

 broad, containing a single row of white, enamelled seeds, attached 

 to the valves by threads. The pods dehisce along the lower suture, 

 and the seeds are persistently attached by their threads. Thickets. 



