Plants Collected in Paraguay. 107 



Sugenia Parodiaoa, Morong, n. sp. 



A branching glabrous shrub, 1-2 m. high, with whitish, scaly bark which 

 is often dotted with small black glands. Young branches glabrous, often 

 compressed, dotted with small yellow, translucent glands. Leaves opposite, 

 entire, elliptical, 2^-6 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, narrowed at either end, obtuse 

 at the apex, midrib prominent beneath, impressed above, veins and veinlets 

 raised, with an arcuate marginal nerve, revolute when dry, pellucid-punctate, 

 the punctuations elevated ; on a narrowly winged petiole 2-5 mm. long. 

 Flowers pedicelled, pedicels solitary or 2 pairs on a short raceme, glabrous, 

 axillary or at a defoliated node on the branches, the pedicels and rachis of 

 the racemes 4 or 5 cm. long. Flowers very small, calyx lobes glabrous or 

 ciliolate, petals white, and with the disk pubescent, clawed, both calyx and 

 petals refiexed in anthesis. Style as long as the stamens, uncinate at the 

 stigma. Bracts and bracteoles minute, ovate, ciliolate, caducous. Ovary 

 2-celled, the cells several ovuled, apparently ripening only one seed. Fruit 

 not seen. 



In sandy soil east of Asuncion (821). October-November. 

 = Balansa, 1314. 



Eugenia uiiiflora, L., Sp. PL, 470. 



Pilcomayo River (894). January. 



Compared with a specimen collected by Lorentz in the Argentine 

 Republic and so named by Grisebach. — N. L. B. 



A branching shrub about 3 m. in height, with grayish or brown 

 bark. Flowers too young to be determined when first observed. 

 Leaves (longest) 5 cm. long and 3 cm. wide, simple, enth'e, opposite, 

 ovate, obtusely pointed at both ends, shining above and lighter 

 green beneath, pellucid-dotted. I afterwards found good fruit. It 

 is an edible, pleasant-tasting berry, depressed globular, slightly 7-8 

 angled, crowned with the oblong persistent calj^x lobes, solitary or 

 in axillary clusters along the stem, quite pulpy and bright red, with 

 yellowish meat when ripe, containing a single flattish,rcrustaceous 

 seed; on peduncles 2-3 cm. long. Birds are very fond of the fruit, 

 and the crops of many " turkeys" that we killed were full of the 

 berries. Common in thickets on the banks of the Pilcomayo. 



Eugenia cauliflora (Mart.), D.C., Prod., iii, 273. 



Asuncion (614). Fruit, March. 



A well-known fruiting tree of Paraguay, called Y-ba-pu-rH, or, 

 in English Hivapuru, by the natives. 5-8 m. high, with smooth, 

 greenish bark. The flowers and fruit grow along the trunk, some- 

 times almost to the ground. Flowers very small, white, in short 



