106 Plants Collected in Paraguay. 



Fruit 2-celled, each cell containing a single, yellowish seed with a 

 shining membranaceous test. 



IMfyrcia Assuiuptionis, Morong, n. sp. 



A shrub 2^-4 m. or more high, with reddish, scaly or corrugated bark, 

 much branclied, the branches opposite and sometimes tetragonous above. 

 Young branches compressed, white villous. Leaves numerous, opposite, 

 pellucid-punctate, lanceolate, rounded or subcordate at base, sharply or 

 obtusely acuminate at the apex, revolute when dry, 3-7 cm. long, 1-2|- cm. 

 broad ; nerves elevated on both sides and the midrib a little sulcate above; 

 young leaves white villous below, especially on the midrib, soon glabrate. 

 Buds silky canescent. Flowers small, white, in glabrous terminal panicles, 

 3-5 cm. long, many-flowered, the branches of the panicle 1-5 flowered, all the 

 flowers pedicelled. Flower bud globose ; calyx lobes shorter than the petals, 

 ciliate, glabrous ; petals glabrous, rounded above, 2 or 3 mm. long ; calyx 

 and petals reflexed in anthesis ; stamens numerous, exserted ; style about the 

 length of the stamens. Bracts and bracteoles linear, 1-2 mm. long, ciliolate, 

 caducous. Ovary 2-celled. Berry about 5 mm. in diameter, red when ripe, 

 containing a single bony seed. 



In copses. Asuncion (260). December. 



Eugenia camporum, Morong, n. sp. 



A small shrub 5-6 dm. high, glabrous, the bark silvery-white, dotted by 

 scattered dark glands. Young branches glabrous, reddish-brown, dotted with 

 small, yellow, pellucid glands. Leaves opposite, entire, elliptical, coriaceous, 

 revolute, pellucid-punctate, sometimes bearing a few scattered fuscous glands 

 beneath, sessile, narrowed at either end, obtuse at the apex, 3-6 cm. long, 

 1-2 cm. broad ; doubly limb-nerved, the veins distinct and the midrib promi- 

 nent beneath and slightly sulcate above. Flowers not seen. Fruit a red berry 

 as large as a strawberry, gland-dotted, 7-8 ribbed, containing a thin, red, 

 sweet pulp, and one large flattened-globular seed about 1 cm. long ; test crus- 

 taceous. Peduncles drooping, filiform, solitary or 3 or 4 together, axillary or 

 from a defoliated node, 12-20 mm. long. The fruit is crowned with 4 oblong, 

 coriaceous, gland-dotted, venose, concave sepals. 



Yery near Stenocalyx glaber, Berg., in Mart. Fl., xiv, pt. 1, 337, 

 but differs from that species as described in its narrow elongated, 

 obtuse leaves, number of the peduncles, and in other points. It 

 seems also to be the "Eugenia MicheliiV of Parodi in Cont. Flor. 

 Par., Fasc. iv, 122, but that species {E. unifiora, L.) has much 

 shorter ovate or obovate leaves, and is a much taller shrub, with 

 smaller fruit. 



Near Asuncion, open grounds (832). Fruits in November. 



Guarani name Sfangapari-mi, fide Parodi. 



