194 Plants Collected in Paraguay. 



margins white membranous. Calyx not ^ as long as the corolla tube, deeply 

 5-parted. Corolla rose-purple, the tube slender, a little ampliate at the 

 throat, smooth or slightly pubescent, ringent, the upper lip entire, the lower 

 3-lobed. Stamens 2, included or slightly exserted, on the corolla tube. Anther 

 cells discrete, the one above the other. Capsule somewhat 4-sided, obconic, 

 downy, 2-celled, 4-seeded ; seeds subglobose. 



Found in thickets, somewhat supported by bushes. Banks of the 

 Pilcomayo River (1538). January. == Gibert no. 41. 



Stenandriiim trinerve, Nees, Mart. Fl. Bras., ix, 75. 



Between Paragua and Luque (854); Caballero (507). December. 

 — Balansa 246t. 



Acaulescent. Scape 5 or 6 cm. high. Flowers in short terminal 

 spikes, with leafy bracts at the base of the spikes and flowers. 

 Corolla about 1 cm. long, purple, with shades of deeper purple and 

 yellow on the interior of the lobes. Fruit a 2-celled capsule, each 

 cell with several flat, very hairy seeds. A pretty little plant grow- 

 ing in dry grassy soil on the railway track. 



Beloporone ramulosa, Morong, n. sp. 



Suffruticose. Stems terete or squarish, swollen at the nodes, below glabrous 

 or pubescent in lines, above pubescent, furnished with many erect, virgate 

 branches, 7-10 dm. high. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, entire, acute, 

 sloping at base into a petiole 3-20 mm. long, the uppermost passing into bracts 

 and sessile, pubescent or lineolate or both, 2-10 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide. 

 Flowers mainly at the top of the branches in solitary, opposite, axillary 

 spikes, the spikes about 2 cm. long. Bracts ovate, 1-1^ cm. long, mucronate 

 or cuspidate, hirsute, ciliate, attenuate at base. Bracteoles a little shorter 

 than the calyx lobes. Calyx divided to the base, the segments linear, acumi- 

 nate, 5 as long as the corolla. Corolla 3 cm. long, deep red, downy outside, 

 bilabiate, the upper lip entire, the lower with a long middle lobe slightly 

 spreading on the sides into 2 lateral lobes. Stamens 2, exserted, the anthers 

 discrete, one cell above and one lower, the cells appendaged below. Style 

 longer than the stamens ; stigma erect, flat. 



In thickets. Asuncion (706). May. = Balansa 3296. 



Beloporone AmlierstiaB, Nees, 1. c, 139. 



Asuncion (200 a). December-April. 



Stems frutescent, terete, glabrate or lepidote, very leafy, 6 dm. to 

 2 m. high. Leaves ovate, pubescent, sometimes lepidote above 

 Noticeable for its bright red narrow tubular, bilabiate corollas 2 

 or 3 cm. long, w^hich make it conspicuous in woodlands. 



