Plants Collected in Paraguay. Ill 



flowers and a large edible fruit, often cultivated in gardens. It 

 seems to flower at all seasons of the year, or, rather, at almost any 

 season when the tree is old enough for the purpose. 



ONAGRARIEJE. 

 Jussiaea decurrens (Walt.), D.C., Prod., iii, 56. 



Caballero (425). January. 



This was so determined after a comparison with specimens at 

 Kew thus labelled, but it is very doubtful if it can be included in 

 this species. The stems are very slender, 3-9 dm. high, angled but 

 not winged. Leaves linear or lanceolate, the linear leaves 4-12 

 cm. long, '^-3 mm. broad, the others 3-5 cm. long and 1-10 mm. 

 broad, all acute at both ends and sessile or shortly petiolate. The 

 yellow flowers are large and showy, the petals often measuring 2^ 

 cm. in length, 3 times as long as the ovate, acute calyx lobes. The 

 capsules appear to be those of J. decurrens, but they and the flowers 

 are on pedicels 5 or 6 mm. long. Growing on the railroad track. 



Jussiaea lagunae, Morong, n. sp. 



A slirubby plant occurring in the great laguna of the Pilcomayo River. 

 Stem glabrous, terete below, angled and striate on the branches, 9-12 dm. 

 high. Leaves alternate or fascicled, 1-nerved, glabrous or rough on the mid- 

 rib and margins, entire, sessile, oblong-linear, acute at the apex, acuminate at 

 the base, the largest collected 5 or 6 cm. long and 3 or 4 mm. wide. Flowers 

 bright yellow, solitary, axillary, shortly pedicelled, 3 cm. high and 5 or 6 cm. 

 in diameter when expanded ; sepals 4, ovate, acute, ^ as long as the petals, 

 with 2 free, subulate bracteoles at the base ; petals 4, nerved, rounded or with a 

 shallow sinus at the apex ; stamens 8, equal, longer than the style, included ; 

 disk well marked, the curved lines of the lobes strongly woolly; style pro- 

 duced. Capsules tetragonous, 8 nerved, clavate, slightly compressed and 2 or 

 3 mm. broad at the apex, 1^-2 cm. long, sloping at base into a pedicel about 

 5 mm. long. Seeds nearly round, liattish, scarcely ^ mm. long, striate under 

 the lens, very numerous. 



Pilcomayo River (1035). May. 



Jussiaea octonervia, Lam., Encyc, iii, 332. 



Asuncion (137 a and 137 b). November. 



A shrubby plant 12-18 dm. in height, common in wet grounds. 

 The 4 petals broad obovate, emarginate, feather-veined, yellow and 

 showy. Leaves mostly narrow linear-lanceolate, sometimes 2J cm. 

 broad. Pods 8-nerved. 



