1 02 Plants Collected in Paraguay. 



Pitliecolobium cailliflorum (Willd.), Mart. Fl. Bras., xv, pt. 2, 



450? 



Gran Chaco (360). December. 



Agrees well with this species as to foliage and flowers ; but the 

 pod is only 5 cm long and about 2.5 cm. broad. It is the same 

 as Balansa's no. 1386, incorrectly referred by Micheli to P. divari- 

 catum, Benth., of which I have seen the type in Herb. Kew. — N.L.B. 



One of the most curious trees that I found in Paraguay. It is 

 thickly, stragglingly branched, some 8 m. or more in height, very 

 knotty, with white, broken bark. Entirely unarmed, but with a 

 mass of strong, ungainly limbs. Leaves coriaceous, digitately bi- 

 pinnate, that is, with 2 sets of pinnae which diverge from the end 

 of a common petiole or rachis, each with 2-6 leaflets. The flowers 

 are large, white on the calyx and corolla tube, with numerous, 

 showy, exserted purple stamens, in naked clusters on the old wood, 

 frequently on very large limbs. Styles as long as the stamens, 

 purple-colored above, and these with the numerous stamens (50 or 

 more) are very conspicuous, especially as the flowers are borne on 

 the old leafless portions of the branches. Fruit an arcuate, flat 

 pod 3-6 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, containing 2-5 roundish, flat, 

 smooth seeds, quite as curious as the flowers. 



EnteroloMiim contortisiliqiium (Veil.), Morong. 



Mimosa contortisiliqua, Veil., Flor. Flum., xi, t. 25. 



Enterolohium Timbouva, Benth. in Hook. Loud. Jour. Bot., iii, 224. 



Asuncion (271). November-December. 



One of the most noble trees in Paraguay, known popularly as 

 the Timbo. Frequently cultivated as a shade tree in the streets 

 and gardens of Asuncion, and common on the open campos around 

 the city. It grows to the height of 25 m., and its wood is used in 

 the construction of boats and in cabinet-work. It has a smooth 

 bark on the trunk, which on the branches becomes purplish, shining 

 and warty. Leaves bipinnate, bright green, giving a light, elegant 

 appearance to the tree. The branches rise in a beautiful symmetri- 

 cal head, bearing the leaves near their ends. Flowers white with 

 a delicate yellowish tinge, in clustered heads on a common peduncle. 

 Fruit a large, reniform pod, the largest 6 cm. broad and 5 cm. long, 

 pluricelled, containing many oval, hard seeds. 



One of the few deciduous trees of Paraguay, the leaves dropping 



