Plants Collected in Paraguay. 155 



Found in fruit only. Stems very slender, glabrous, much and 

 strag-gingly branched, 4|^-6 dm. high. Leaves alternate, sparse, 

 linear, sessile, acute, 3-15 mm. long. Pods many-nerved, 7 or 8 

 mm. long, on bracted pedicels 1-2 cm. long and crowned by 5 rigid, 

 persistent .sepals. Seeds brown, shining, nearly orbicular, | mm. 

 long. 



PLUMBAGINE^. 

 Plumlbago scandens, L., Sp. PL, Ed. 2, 215. 



Asuncion (691). May. 



My specimens exhibited no tendency to climb, but were erect, 

 9-12 dm. high. A shrubby plant with alternate, oblong-lanceolate, 

 entire, shining leaves, the largest 8-10 cm. long, 6 cm. wide, on 

 short wing-margined petioles. Flowers in terminal spikes. Calyx 

 tube 1 cm. long, shortly 3-4 lobed at the apex, with 5 green lines 

 down the sides, alternating with white membranaceous nerves, beset 

 with short, upright hairs each tipped by a small globular gland. 

 Corolla white or slightly purplish, with a slender tube 2 cm. long ; 

 lobes 5, rotate, oblong. Stamens 4, much exserted ; anthers blue. 

 Capsule closely invested by the persistent, glandular calyx. 



PRIMULACEJE. 

 Anagallis coerulea, Schreb. Spic. Fl. Lips., 5. 

 Buenos Aires (17). October. 



Samolus floribundiis, H. B. K., Nov. Gen., ii, 181. 



Pilcomayo Kiver (925). February. 



The plant which is so common in our country, and which has 

 usually been mistaken for 8. Valerandi, L. The Pilcomayo, on 

 which it occurs, is a stream of brackish or, when low, of saline 

 water. 



MYRSINE^. 



Myrsine Ouyaneiisis (Aublet), Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL, 402. 

 Myrsirie floribunda, R. Br. 



Asuncion (757). June. 



A shrub or small tree with grayish, somewhat corrugated bark, 

 3-6 m. high Found only in fruit. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, 



