176 Plants Collected in Paraguay. 



ing into a short petiole. Flowers light blue, in panicled cymes, on 

 long drooping peduncles, showy. Berries purplish-black, smooth, 

 with a bloom, somewhat larger than a pea. This plant was very 

 abundant on the marshy borders of the Paraguay at Asuncion, and 

 also in the water of the great laguna on the Pilcomayo River, 



Solaiiuiu mamniosuiii, L., Sp. PL, 187. 



Asuncion (102); near Luque (34Y). November-December. 



A bushy shrub, 6-12 dm. in height. Stem and lower surface of 

 leaves armed with straight, whitish-yellow spines, some of them 

 nearly 2 cm. in length. Leaves very large, often nearly 2 dm. long 

 by 1^ dm. broad, deeply, many-lobed, stellately pubescent beneath. 

 Flowers bluish-purple or almost white. Fruit large, at first blotched 

 with green and light yellow, becoming yellow when mature, globu- 

 lar, smooth. Some of the berries which I measured were 3 cm. in 

 diameter. Common on low grounds. 



Solanum nigrum, L., Sp. PL, 186. 



Buenos Aires (9); La Plata, Arg. Republic (27); Asuncion (262). 

 October-December. 



SolanuiU nudum, H. B. K., Nov. Gen., iii, 33. 



Asuncion (126). November-May. 



A shrub, or sometimes growing into a small tree 5 m. high, much 

 branched, glabrous, the young shoots pubescent. Leaves alternate 

 or sometimes in 4s, often geminate above, ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, entire, glabrous above, downy beneath, 5-10 cm. long, 2-4 

 cm. wide, sloping into a petiole 2-4 cm. long. Flowers in axillary 

 clusters, the pedicels 1-2 cm. long. Calyx lobes ovate, shorter than 

 the corolla tube. Corolla about 1 cm. in height, of 5 deeply parted 

 segments with a greenish line down the centre and purplish on the 

 sides. Berries red, as large as peas. This shrub is quite conspicu- 

 ous in the thickets around Asuncion for its foliage and its clusters 

 of red berries. It bears scattered spines on the branches, but gen- 

 erally is unarmed on the stem. 



Solanum OOCarpum, Sendt. in Mart. Fl. Bras., x, 106. 



Pilcomayo River (885). January. 



A tall shrub, with whitish stellate-tomentose stems. Leaves 

 very large, 5-7 lobed, stellate-pubescent on both sides, beset with 



