108 Plants Collected in Paraguay. 



clusters. Leaves opposite, pellucid-punctate, dark green above, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, rounded at base, the largest 4 cm. long 

 by 2 cm. broad. Petioles 2 or 3 mm. long, pubescent. Young 

 leaves and branches pubescent. Fruit 1-1^ cm. or more in diameter, 

 very dark purple when ripe, looking like a plum, with a white, 

 somewhat astringent pulp that clings closely to the seeds. Seeds 

 2-4, irregularly shaped, soft-shelled. Often sold in the markets of 

 Asuncion. 



MELASTOMACE^. 

 Rtiyncailtliera rosea, Cogn. in Mart. Flor. Bras., xiv, pt. 3, 181. 



Luque (293 a). December. Named by A. Cogniaux. 



A square-stemmed plant about 6 dm. high, with showy rose- 

 colored flowers and rough prickly stalk and linear leaves. Flowers 

 in terminal racemes. Open grounds. 



Tilioucliina lierbacea (D.C.), Cogn., 1. c, 408. 



Between Pirayu and Jaquaron (664). April. Named by A. 

 Cogniaux. 



A handsome purple-flowered plant 6-9 dm. high, growing on the 

 open campo. Corolla smaller than in the other species collected, 

 the petals being about 1 cm. in length. Stems and leaves densely 

 villous and tomentose. It bears numerous blossoms in long termi- 

 nal panicles. 



Tilioucliina gracilis (Bonpl.), Cogn., 1. c, 386. 



Luque (293); near Caballero (598). December-January. 



A very showy-flowered plant, 3-6 dm. high, growing in open 

 grounds. Corolla bright purple-red, the petals 2 cm. in length. 

 Flowers in long terminal racemes. All the species are bristly . 

 hairy, the hairs rising from papillae on the stem. In this species 

 the hairs are prickly, white, spreading upwards or appressed, in no. 

 664 they are fuscous below and curve downwards. 



L.eandra atropnrpurea, Cogn., 1. c, pt. 4, 106. 



Between Yilla Bica and Escoba (456). January. Named by 

 A. Cogniaux. 



A shrub, 5-7 dm. high, with dark-setose stem and leaves, the 

 hairs stifi" and spreading. Leaves opposite, oval-lanceolate, the 

 largest collected 10 cm. long and 5 J cm. wide. Petiole 1-2 cm. 



