198 Plants Collected in Paraguay. 



Verbena intermedia, Gill, and Hook, in Hook. Bot. Misc., i, 166. 



Pilcoinayo River (1014). April. 



Many stems from the same root, very slender and much-branched, 

 erect, 4-5^ dm. high, the upper parts naked. Flowers blue, scarcely 

 3 mm. high, in terminal spikes not over 3 mm. wide and 5-15 cm. 

 long. Leaves small, linear, serrate, and confined mostly to the lower 

 part of the stems, or soon dropping off, giving a naked, dry look to 

 the plant. The stems are tetragonous and rough to the touch. 



VerlJena iitoralis, H. B. K., Nov. Gen., ii, 276. 



Asuncion (128). November-December. 



A tall, rough, square-stemmed weed, with long cylindrical spikes 

 of b^ue flowers, common in fields. Leaves few, linear, sharply ser- 

 rate. The upper parts of the stem and branches naked. The spikes 

 are sometimes 12 or 14 cm. long. 



Verbena venosa. Gill, and Hook., 1. c, 167. 

 Asuncion (1541). November. 



Verbena Moron gii, Britton, n. sp. 



Ascending, branched, 30 cna. or more high, the branches sparsely pubes- 

 ent, sharply 4-angled. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, acuminate at the 

 apex, narrowed at the base, sharply serrate or the upper entire, pubescent 

 with short, rigid, subulate hairs on the upper surface, glabrous or very nearly 

 so beneath, 5-7 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide ; tiowers in dense, oblong, terminal, 

 peduncled heads ; corolla 1.5 cm. long, the tube narrow, somewhat enlarged 

 above, the limb spreading ; bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, striate, very 

 ciliate, about as long as the corolla tube. 



Caballero (600). January. 



This plant sometimes reaches twice the height given in the 

 description. Flowers lilac or purple. It grows on the railroad 

 track in company with no. 599. 



Citliarexyluna myrianttium^ Cham., Linnsea, vii, 117. 



Asuncion (830). November. = Balansa 2090. 



A tree from 3 to 10 m. in height, with smooth gray bark. Leaves 

 glabrous, shining on the upper surface, elliptical, bearing 2 green, 

 thick, wart-like glands at the base of the blade, the largest 14 cm. 

 long by 6 cm. broad. Flowers white, in long, secund, drooping 

 racemes. It bears a drupe about as large as a cherry. 



