178 Plants Collected in Paraguay. 



persistent in fruit. Corolla blue, with white lines running down the sides, 

 about 1 cm. high, with 5 broad, scarcely apparent lobes, their tips with a 

 velvety tuft of hairs. Stamens much shorter than the corolla, the anthers 

 thick, incurved at the apex, a little longer than the filaments, somewhat 

 unequal. Style curved ; stigma capitate. Fruit a large, smooth, globular 

 berry, nearly 2 cm. in diameter, with a thick, fleshy rind, 4-celled ; seeds 

 compressed, turning black. 



' This plant is quite common in the streets of Asuncion on the 

 borders of the sidewalks, growing to a much greater size on the 

 roadsides in the outskirts of the city. 



Streets of Asuncion (141); suburbs of Asuncion (708). = Bal- 

 ansa 2104. November-May. 



Solanuni Tillaricense, Morong, n. sp. 



A bushy, widely branched shrub 9-12 dm. high, all the parts, even to the 

 calyx and corolla, covered with white or tawny stellate pubescence. Stem 

 terete, armed with straight, acicular spines, becoming smooth and glabrous 

 with age. Leaves lanceolate, somewhat obtuse, entire or occasionally a little 

 lobed, lighter colored beneath, the blades -^8 cm. long by 1-3^ cm. broad, 

 sloping into a petiole 1-2 cm. in length. Flowers in large terminal cymes. 

 Calyx ^ the length of the corolla, deeply cleft ; lobes 5, as long as the tube, 

 lanceolate-acuminate. Corolla white, 10-12 mm. high, and twice as much in 

 diameter when fully expanded ; lobes as long as the tube, ovate, mucronate- 

 pointed. Filaments very short ; anthers slightly puberulent, nearly 1 cm. 

 long, the pores small, looking upwards. Fruit red, abundant, the berries as 

 large as cherries. 



This plant covers large tracts on the open hillsides at Villa Rica, 

 and is quite conspicuous with its large white flowers and red ber- 

 ries (494). January. 



Solanum Tiolaefolium^ Schott, in Spreng. Syst. Veg. iv, 403. 



Pilcomayo River (920). February-March. 



A creeping plant running for 6-9 dm., the stem rooting at the 

 nodes, mostly under ground, glabrous and entirely free from spines 

 or prickles. Leaves, as the specific name denotes, much like those 

 of Viola obliqua, cordate-ovate, on petioles 3-8 cm. long. Flowers 

 solitary, on axillary pedicels 2-5 cm. long, whitish; corolla spread- 

 ing rotately J-2 cm. in diameter, the 5 deeply cut lobes ciliate, 

 eroded or a little fimbriate. Fruit a large oval berry, over 2 cm. 

 long, yellow when ripe. 



This plant grows on the sides of steep banks on the borders of the 

 Pilcomayo River, in shady places, its long stems often running under 

 leaf mould and loose soil, appearing here and there above ground. 



