Plants Collected in Paraguay. 12T 



undeveloped branches. Leaves small, opposite, vi^ith an interpetiolar 

 stipule which consists of one large-based, stiff hair. Flowers small, 

 white, in large irregular corymbs. The disk is in 2 parts, which 

 rise around the ovary like a collar. Fruit splits into 2 rather long 

 seeds. 



Basanacantlia spinosa (Jacq.), Sclmm. in Mart. Fl. Bras., vi, pt. 6, 

 376. 



Asuncion (806); Pilcomayo River (893). 



A thorny shrub in thickets. Corolla greenish-white, tubular, 

 with 5 large, downy, recurved lobes. The most striking thing 

 about the plant is the fruit, which is a large oval nut, 4-celled, each 

 cell containing a single seed, the interior filled with a thick, white 

 meat, covered by a separable rind, which is sprinkled on the outside 

 with mealy dots, reminding one in appearance of the Cedrella nut, 

 though without the offensive odor of that. I could not learn that it 

 is ever eaten, even by the Indians. Flower October ; fruit January. 



No. 806 corresponds very well with var. pubescens, Schum., in 

 Mart. Fl. Bras., 1. c, 378, and no. 893 with vsiV.ferox of the same 

 author. 



Cbotuelia Morongii, Britton, n. sp. 



A shrub 3-9 m. high, with divergent, reddish, smooth branches, the young 

 twigs pubescent. Leaves short-petioled, oval or ovate-oval, acute, acuminate 

 or sometimes obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, pubescent, with short 

 hairs on the upper surface and with matted spreading ones on the lower, 4-10 

 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide ; peduncles slender, pubescent, 1-1^ cm. long, 2-8- 

 flowered ; corolla tube slender, finely pubescent without, about 1| cm. long, 

 4-5 times as long as the oblong, obtuse lobes ; calyx-teeth short, unequal ; 

 style slender, glabrous ; fruit oblong, 1 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, finely and 

 densely velvety-pubescent. 



Pilcomayo River (906). = Balansa 3165. Related to C.pedun- 

 culosa, Be nth. 



A beautiful unarmed shrub abounding in thickets on the borders 

 of the river. Flowers pink colored, in small clusters, exhaling fra- 

 grance in wet weather. The lobes of the calyx are sometimes obso- 

 lete ; the lobes of the corolla and the stamens sometimes 5, instead 

 of the normal number 4. Berry dark purple, with a thin pulp, the 

 4 cells becoming compact when ripe and appearing to mature only 

 a single consolidated bony seed. It is quite sweet to the taste, and 

 was freely eaten by our company. 



