Hants Collected in Paraguay. 165 



at the apex, pubescent when young, becoming glabrate, the largest 

 6 cm, long by 2 cm. wide. Flowers creamy white, in umbellate 

 clusters, 6-20 in the umbel, on peduncles as long as or longer than 

 the leaves. Pedicels lJ-2 cm. long. Peduncles, pedicels, calyx, and 

 corolla sericeous-pubescent. Corolla lobes ovate, obtuse, ciliate, 5 

 or 6 mm. long. Inner scales of the crown as high as the gynoste- 

 gium, the exterior ones nearly entire. Stigma apiculate, the apex 

 shortly bifid. Fruit a large ovate follicle, 6-8 em. long, sometimes 

 2, united at the base. The flowers are very fragrant, and much 

 frequented by wasps and other insects. 



Sarcostemma Mfidum, Fourn. in Mart. Fl. Bras., vi, pt. 4, 235. Ex 

 descr. 



Pilcomayo Kiver (1526). January. 



Climbing high Stems mostly glabrous, the young shoots pubes- 

 cent. Leaves oval, narrowed and rounded at the base, or the lowest 

 cordate, obtuse, and strongly mucronate at the apex, glabrous above, 

 more or less pubescent below, 4-5 cm. long, 1-2|- cm. broad ; petioles 

 silky pubescent, 3-6 mm. long. Internodes 6-12 cm. long. Flowers 

 white, in axillary umbels. Peduncles robust, 8-10 cm. long, 10-20 

 flowered. Pedicels about 2 cm. long, pubescent. Calyx and corolla 

 silky pubescent, lobes of the former ovate, obtuse, surpassing the 

 corolla tube, of the latter ovate, 5 or 6 mm. long and woolly ciliate 

 as well as pubescent. Inner scales of the crown surpassing the 

 gynostegium, the outer a mere border nearly entire or sinuous. 

 Stigma conoidal, with a short bifid beak. Fruit a large ovate fol- 

 licle like that of no. 681.' 



Sarcostemma carpopliylloides, Morong, n. sp. 



A very slender vine twining 2-5 m. or more over shrubs. Stems striate, 

 very glabrous, much branched, the main stem below squarish, often brownish 

 in color. Leaves delicate, opposite, glabrous, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 entire, 4r-6 cm. long, 2-5 mm. wide, sloping acuminately into a capillary, 

 channelled petiole 3-5 mm. long. Internodes 5-10 cm. long. Flowers white, 

 few, in small axillary clusters, 2-4 in a cluster, 3 or 4 mm. high, and 5 mm. 

 in diameter when expanded. Peduncles not over ]0 mm. long. Calyx deeply 

 5-parted, greenish-yellow, the lobes obtuse, pubescent without, minutely 

 glandular in the axils, 1-lj mm. long. Corolla deeply 5 parted, lobes erect, 

 oblong, obtuse, slightl}'- pubescent at the base within, about 3 mm. long. 

 Scales of the corona pure white, adnate to the gynostegium, the inner cylin- 

 drical, higher than the gynostegium, the outer much smaller, 10 cuneate-lobed. 

 Stigma truncate or slightly conoidal. Follicles very slender, silky downy, 



