Plants Collected in Paraguay. 167 



GENTIANEJE. 

 Limnantbeiiiuini Huiiil>oldtiaiiuin, Griseb., Grent., 347. 



Near Asuncion (713). 



A beautiful aquatic, common in pools northeast of Asuncion, 

 flowering from January to May. Leaves almost as large as those 

 of Casfalia odorata, and often 2 or 3. Corolla white, beautifully 

 fringed on the margins of the lobes, yellow inside below the lobes. 

 Anthers black on the back and edges of the cells. Stigma large 

 with 2 erect, crimped lobes. Ovary large, pointed, violet-colored. 



HYDROPHYLLACE^. 

 Hydrolea spinosa, L., Sp. PL, Ed. 2, 328. 



Asuncion (228). December-January. 



A coarse herb 6-9 dm. high, with many of the short lower 

 branches euding in a sharp thorn. Flowers a bright blue. The 

 whole plant covered with unequal glandular hairs, which adhere 

 strongly to the drying-paper. Occurs in wet grounds. 



BORAGINE^. 

 Cordia glabrata, A. D.C. Prod., ix, 473. 



Asuncion (792). October. 



A tree 8-13 m. high, with smooth bark, looking something like a 

 poplar. Leaves large, round-ovate, thick, glabrous, shining above, 

 lighter-colored beneath. Flowers a light purple, showy, in terminal 

 corymbs. 



Cordia taermaniiiaefolia, Cham., Linnaea, 1829, p. 484. 



Asuncion (156); Pilcomayo River (987). November-April. 



Yery different from the preceding species. A straggling, rough 

 hairy shrub 15-24 dm. high. Leaves alternate, ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, serrate, lighter colored above, hispid on both sides, acute, 

 4-6 cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad, on short petioles. Flowers glomerate 

 in small cymes; corolla very small, obscurely 5-lobed, yellowish- 

 white, veined with a delicate lilac outside. Calyx hispid. Fruit 

 oval, about 5 mm. long, when fully ripe turning red, and the 2 cells 

 hardening into an apparently single seed. 



