Plants Collected in Paraguay. 175 



Solanum Capsicastrum, Link., Cat. Hort. Berol. 



Asuncion (617); Pilcomayo River (1529). =^ Balansa 209T. 

 January-March. 



A low shrub, 3-6 dm. high, with rough, straggling stems. 

 Flowers white, not over 5 mm. in diameter when expanded. 

 Stem, petioles, and leaves covered with a close, white, glandular, 

 stellate pubescence. Fruit solitary along the stem, or in small 

 clusters, a smooth red berry somewhat larger than a pea. Com- 

 mon in thickets throughout Central Paraguay. 



Solanum graniiloso-leprosuiiifDniial., D.C., Prod,, xiii, pt. 1, 115. 



Asuncion (139). November- January. 



A tall thornless shrub, thick-stemmed, covered in all its parts 

 with a hoary, scurfy, stellate pubescence. Leaves numerous, large, 

 ovate-lanceolate, on long petioles, rough with stellate pubescence 

 above, whitish beneath. Stipules very large, round or oval, on 

 short stalks. Flowers in clusters, blue, on long peduncles. Berries 

 globose, about as large as a pea. This is a very conspicuous plant 

 on the borders of woodlands. The dense whitish stellate tomentum 

 has a granular and scaly look, and hence the specific name. 



Solanum Handelianum, Morong. 



S. angusti/olium, Lam., lUus. no. 2343, not Miller. 



Asuncion (818). October-November. 



Here named for Prof. Pablo Handel, of the Collegio Nacional at 

 Asuncion, who frequently accompanied the writer in his botanical 

 excursions in Paraguay, and by his knowledge of the country and 

 the languages of the people, and his friendly assistance, contributed 

 much towards the collection. 



A shrubby plant, strict and erect below, twining on the limbs 

 of shrubs above, 2-3 m. in height. Stem very smooth, strongly 

 5-angled. Leaves few, linear or linear-lanceolate, entire, glabrous. 

 Flowers blue, in terminal bractless cymes. Berries black. 



Solaniim malacoxyloii, Sendtn., 1. c, 51. 



Asuncion (181); Pilcomayo River (1530). = Balansa 2105. 

 October-May. 



A tall, soft-stemmed shrub, with a large pith in the stem, grow- 

 ing sometimes 3 m. in height, entirely without thorns, very erect. 

 Leaves glabrous, linear-lanceolate, 10-16 cm. long, acuminate, slop- 



