184 Plants Collected in Paraguay. 



Stemodiacra hyptoides (C. and S.), Kuntze, 1. c. 



Near Trinidad (833). November. 



My specimens were none of them over 4 dm. high. Flowers 

 much like those of no. 18, azure blue, and the plant very viscous 

 glandular, but the leaves small and spatulate. 



Stemodiacra Terticillata (Miller), Kuntze, 1. c. 



Asuncion (800 a and 808); Pilcomayo River (9t2). October- 

 March. 



Herbaceous, 5-25 cm. high. Corolla azure, lighter colored within, 

 the throat delicately fringed. This little plant has the odor of mint 

 when freshly gathered. 



In grassy grounds or in wettish places in the woods. 



JHonniera lanigera (C. and S.), Kuntze, 1. c, 463. 



Villa Rica (496). January. 



A creeping or ascending bog plant, 5-15 cm. high. Stem densely 

 villous. Leaves opposite, entire, orbicular-ovate, obtuse at the 

 apex, amplexicaul, 8-15 mm. long. Flowers axillary, pedicellate, 

 with 2 minute bracteoles under the calyx. Corolla blue. 



monniera calycina (Forsk.), Kuntze, 1. c, 462. 



Asuncion (90); Pilcomayo River (1029). November-May. 

 Growing in marshes at Asuncion, and as an aquatic, mostly sub- 

 merged, in the Pilcomayo River near the Falls. 



Scoparia dulcis, L., Sp. PL, 116. 

 Asuncion (97). November. 



Scoparia pinnatifida, C. and S., Linnsea, viii, 22. 

 Asuncion (12). November-December. 



Teronica arveusis, L., Sp. PL, 13. 



La Plata, Arg. Republic (26). October. 



Biichnera eloiigata, Sw., Flor. Ind. Occ, 1061. 

 Near Asuncion (324). December-May. 



Gerardia commuilis, C. and S., Linnsea, iii, 12. 



Asuncion (264); near Caballero (430). December-January. 

 = Balansa 2152. 



