190 Plants Collected in Paraguay. 



which is 2-celled, 2-valved, smooth or nearly so, 10-15 cm. long and 

 4 or 5 cm. broad. The seeds are winged membranously as in 158, 

 but yellowish in color. The valves when emptied of their contents 

 look like small boats, and are used for holding beads, pins, and 

 small ornamental objects. 



Flowers January and February ; fruit June-August. 



Talbeliuia araliacea (Cham.), D.C., Prod., ix, 221. 



Asuncion (740). May. 



A large tree 10-13 m. in height, with grayish bark which is 

 somewhat fissured below and smooth above. Fuscous-downy on 

 the young branches and inflorescence. Leaves opposite, digitate, 

 the leaflets 3-5, elliptical, acute or rounded at base, obtusely acumi- 

 nate at apex, shining above, lighter and prominently nerved beneath, 

 the largest about 10 cm. long and 5 cm. broad. Flowers in sessile 

 corymbs, bright purple, large and conspicuous. Calyx thick, pur- 

 plish, obscurely 5-lobed. Corolla funnel-form, tube ventricose above, 

 somewhat bilabiate, upper lip with 2 rounded lobes, lower with 3 

 emarginate, rounded lobes. Sometimes the corolla is 6 cm. in length, 

 spreading 3 or 4 cm. at the border, white downy outside and with 

 translucent hairs within. A tree very common in the woods around 

 the city, and when covered with its blossoms attracting great atten- 

 tion in the forest, as it is high enough to overtop most of its com- 

 panions. 



Ta'bel>uia ATellanedae, Lor., Griseb. Symb. Flor. Arg., 258. 



Pilcomayo River (901). 



One of the largest trees in Paraguay, common in the forests of 

 the Pilcomayo region, growing at least 15 m. in height. It is 

 popularly known as the Lapacho, and in the Argentine Kepublic 

 as the Lapacho morado or Colorado. I gathered the leaves only, 

 as it flowers in August, a period when I was not on the river. 

 Leaves digitate ; leaflets 3-5, elliptical, abruptly acuminate, serrate, 

 glabrous, the 2 middle ones the largest. Bark grayish. Wood very 

 hard, bluish colored, considered a valuable timber for building pur- 

 poses, nearly equalling the Quebracho Colorado in that respect. 



Tecoma ocliracea, Cham., Linnsea, vii, 653. 



Asuncion (791). October. = Balansa 3237. 

 A fine tree growing in the woods near Asuncion from 10 to 13 m. 

 in height, with brown bark on the trunk, silverish-gray on the 



