Plants Collected in Paraguay. 109 



long. Panicles 10 or 12 cm. long. Berries capsular, 4-7 mm. long, 

 fuscous, setose and glandular-tomentose, 1 to many on each pedun- 

 cle. Found only in fruit. 



Miconia staminea (Desr.), D. C, var. parvifolia, Cogn., 1. c, 231. 



Caballero (502). January. Named by A. Cogniaux. 



A shrub in dense thickets on the banks of the Tebicuary, near 

 Caballero, 3-4 m. in height. Flowers large, yellow, in terminal 

 panicles. Fruit a red berry. Leaves simple, smooth, oval, or 

 elliptical, thick, the blade about 10 cm. in length. Upper part of 

 the stem covered with a cinereous scurf. 



According to M. Cogniaux (D.C., Mon. Phaner. vii, 725), 

 Miconia is antedated by Tamonea, Aubl., PI. Guian., i, 441 (1775), 

 but the name does not appear on that page of our copy of Aublet's 

 work, but is published on page 659 of the second volume, for the 

 verbenaceous genus with which it is usually associated. Leonicenia, 

 Scop. (1777), is, however, doubtless an equivalent of Miconia, R. 

 & P. (1794), and would be adopted here, but for the uncertainty 

 which we feel concerning Tamonea, Aubl., which, if really any- 

 where in Aublet's book before page 659, ought to be taken up. 

 We have failed to find it, but have concluded to allow Miconia to 

 stand.— N. L. B. 



LYTHRARI^. 

 Cupbea Balsamona, C. and S., Linnsea, ii, 363. 



Asuncion (76). November, 



A small plant 15-20 cm. high, with a stem 4-gonous above and 

 terete below, growing in open, grassy grounds. Calyx somewhat 

 inflated, with a gibbous swelling at the base, in which is a nectary. 

 Petals 6, small, red, inserted on the calyx tube at its summit be- 

 tween as many small green projections. In fruit the pod and calyx 

 burst open irregularly and emit the seeds, which are compressed, 

 with 2 sharp and margined angles slightly cordate at the top, or, 

 rather, the callous margins join cordately. 



Cuphea spicata, Cav., Ic, iv, 56, t. 381. 



Asuncion (136). November. 



A glandular hairy herb about 3 dm. in height. Flowers in ter- 

 minal racemes, the petals purple. The fruit is peculiar. Perianth 

 persistent, closing as a pod over the ovary at maturity. The pod 



