174 Plants Collected in Paraguay. 



about 1^ cm. long, thickening and elongating to 4 cm. in fruit. Calyx stell- 

 ately pubescent, | as long as corolla, the lobes nearly subulate, much longer 

 than the tube. Corolla sulphur-yellow, plicate, deeply cleft, pubescent out- 

 side, 2 cm. in diameter when expanded. Calyx and corolla usually 5-lobed, 

 occasionally 4-lobed. Filaments very short ; anthers nearly 1 cm. long, the 

 pores minute, looking upwards. Stigma green, capitate. Ovary 2-celled. 

 Fruit very large, glabrous, yellow, 2-celled, globular, 1^3 cm. in diameter. 



The plant grows in dry or rocky places on the campo, and has a 

 parched, dried appearance. 



Falls of the Pilcomayo (lOOt). April-May. 



Solanum atropurpureum, Schrank, Syll. PL Nov., 200. 



Pilcomayo River (871). January. 



Stem shrubby, erect, beset with long, white or yellowish down- 

 wardly pointed spines. Leaves large, green, deeply 5-7 lobed. 

 Flowers small, yellowish-white. Berry blotched white and green, 

 8-10 cm. in diameter. 



Solanum 'boerhaaTiaefoliuin, Sendtn. in Mart. Fl. Bras., xiii, pt, 

 1, 48. 



Between Pirayu and Jaguaron (34). April. 



Stem shrubby, without spines, climbing on trees 3-5 m., very 

 leafy. Flowers in cymes on capillary peduncles, white or very light 

 blue. Berries black, about the size of those of S. nigrum. 



Solannm Brittonianuiu, Morong, n. sp. 



A shrubby, unarmed, glabrous plant. Stem erect below, twining at the top 

 over the limbs of shrubs, 6-8 feet high, strongly flattened, angled. Leaves 

 lanceolate, glabrous, entire, acute or somewhat obtuse, 5-10 cm. long and |— 2 

 cm. broad, sloping at base into a petiole 5-20 mm. in length. Flowers in 

 large, terminal, laxly panicled cymes. Calyx one-third the length of the 

 corolla, the lobes ovate or rounded, somewhat mucronulate, shorter than the 

 tube. Corolla lobes much shorter than the tube, ovate, puberulent on the 

 outside. Filaments somewhat flattened, scarcely 1 mm. long ; anthers 6-8 

 mm. long, the terminal pores introrse, oblique. Style included ; stigmas 

 shortly clavate, entire or sometimes 2-lobed. 



Banks of the Pilcomayo (1531). January. 

 Solaniim Caavurana, Veil., FL Flum., ii, 1. 112. 



Pilcomayo River (870). January. 



Shrubby, erect, thornless, branching, about 6 dm. high. Leaves 

 large, ovate-lanceolate, twin, on short petioles. Flowers small^ 

 white. Berries as large as peas, smooth, greenish. 



