116 Plants Collected in Paraguay. 



PASSIFLORE^. 

 Named by Dr. M. T. Masters. 



Passiflora coerulea, L., Sp. PL, 959. 



Asuncion (141). November-January. 



Climbing over shrubs to a height of 6 m. or more. Very branch- 

 ing and leafy. Leaves small, smooth, 5-7 deeply palmately lobed. 

 Flowers small, greenish-yellow. Fruit the size of a small hen's 

 egg, orange-colored. 



Passiflora foetida, L., Sp. PL, 959. 



Asuncion (57T); Pilcomayo River (935). January-February. 



A charming little Passion-flower, 6-15 dm. high, climbing upon 

 herbs or small shrubs. Flowers pure white or light purple, not 

 larger than a silver half dollar when expanded, and enclosed in 

 large, finely dissected involucral bracts, the ultimate segments of 

 which are tipped with small glands. Stems hispid with yellow 

 spreading hairs. Leaves cordate, mostly 3-lobed, the lobes some- 

 times angled or lobed, the 2 lower lobes much rounded at base. 

 Fruit a bladdery pod nearly half as large as a hen's Qgg. 



Passiflora foetida, L., var. gossypifolia (Desv.), Masters in Mart. FL 

 Bras., xiii, pt. 1, 582. 



Asuncion (223). December. = Gibert 1031. 



Were it not for the determination of Dr. Masters, who hesitates 

 about separating this from P.foetida, var. gossypifolia, I should not 

 doubt its distinctness, for it bears little resemblance to no. 577, of 

 which it is called a variety. Stems climbing 3-7 m., densely and 

 closely tomentose, as are also the leaves. Leaves 3-lobed, but very 

 differently from 577. The 2 lower ones stand out hastately at right 

 angles from the erect upper one, and have a very broad, shallow 

 sinus below. Tendrils very stiff and strong, opposite the leaves. 

 Flowers blue, small, the involucral bracts shorter than the flowers, 

 the segments few, short and undivided, glandless. Stipules appa- 

 rently obsolete. Not seen in fruit. 



Passiflora Maximiliana^ Bory, Ann. Sci. Phys. Gen., ii, 149, t. 24. 



Pilcomayo River (896 and 1032). January-May. 

 Stem 4-angled, downy, climbing over low shrubs. The leaves 

 quite curious, being composed of 2 long linear leaflets, which are 



