Plants Collected in Paraguay. IGl 



ASCLEPIADE^. 



Araujia grandiflora (Mart, et Zucc), Morong. 

 Schubertia grandiflora, Mart, et Zucc, Nov. Gen., i, 57. 



Asuncion (654) ; Pilcomayo River (654 a). January-April. 

 = Balansa 1338, and Martius' Herb. Flor. Bras., 279. 



A beautiful vine climbing over trees and shrubs 10 m. or more. 

 Stem beset with tawny bristles, and that and the leaves discharg- 

 ing a copious milky secretion when wounded. Flowers in large 

 clusters, the corolla white, showy, and fragrant, 4 cm. in length. 

 Fruit a very large and heavy follicle 10-15 cm. in length, and 

 covered with spiny protuberances. 



Araujia sericifera, Brot., Trans. Lin. Soc, xii, 62. 



Asuncion (77t). May. = Balansa 1332. 



Differs much from 654, though climbing and copiously milky like 

 that. Whole vine, except the upper surface of the leaves, hoary 

 with close white down. Flowers small, white, not conspicuous. 

 Follicles as large as those of 654, but smooth and hoary white. 



Araujia Stormiana, Morong, n. sp. 



Climbing high upon trees. Stems terete, strong, canescent. Leaves oppo- 

 site, very green and glabrous above, white tomentose beneath, hastate, the 

 lobes obtuse, or sometimes merely dilated at the base, oblong-lanceolate above, 

 the largest 16 cm. long, 6 cm. broad across the basal lobes, 2^ cm. broad at 

 the middle; petioles 1^-2|^ cm. long. Calyx lobes green, pubescent, oblong, 

 obtuse, erect, about half as long as the corolla. Corolla 5-7 mm. high, 5-lobed, 

 the lobes greenish-yellow, glabrous above, a little pubescent below, spreading 

 rotately in anthesis, 5 mm. long. Corona 5-lobed, the lobes 2-toothed, the 

 teeth projecting against the gynostegium, hairy at the base inside and usually 

 filled with a honey secretion. Apex of the stigma 2-horned. Fruit not seen. 

 The flowers are in axillary clusters on slender pedicels 5-8 mm. long. 



This plant occurs with no. 1043 near the Pilcomayo Falls (1044). 

 May. Named in honor of Prof. 0. J. Storm, who commanded our 

 Pilcomayo expedition. 



Gothofreda oblongifolia, Morong, n. sp. 



Stem not climbing, erect, white pubescent. Leaves opposite, oblong, rounded 

 at base or semi-cordate, abruptly acute or cuspidate at the apex, pubescent on 

 both sides, midrib prominent beneath, the blades 3-5 cm. long, 1-2^ cm. wide, 

 on petioles 2-7 mm. long. Flowers on axillary peduncles 2-3^ cm. long, 8-12 

 in the umbel ; pedicels pubescent, 4-7 mm. long. Calyx very deeply 5-parted, 

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