Plants Collected in Paraguay. 190 



Titex cymosa, Bert, in Spreng. Syst. Veg., ii, 757. 



Asuncion (797). October. = Balansa 1022. 



A tree with grayish, rather smooth bark, 3 to 10 m. in height. 

 Flowers in panicles at the summit of the previous year's branches. 

 Corolla blue, with a yellow^ eye in the centre. Leaves digitate ; 

 leaflets 3-5. Quite showy when in blossom, as the flowers appear 

 on young shoots before the new leaves. The Guarani name for this 

 tree is Taryma guazu, commonly called Taruma. It is common 

 in the waste grounds of Asuncion and in the woods about the city. 



Clerodendron fragrans. Vent., Jard. Malm., t. 70. 



Asuncion (615). February-March. 



I saw this plant frequently in the neighborhood of dwelling- 

 houses, and think it must be a garden escape, although everybody 

 declared that it was wild. I am confirmed in this opinion by the 

 fact that all the flowers are double, the stamens being converted 

 into petals, and showing no appearance of anthers. It is herba- 

 ceous, growing from 1 to 2 m. in height, with large clusters of 

 white and violet flowers. No fragrance was noticed in the flowers. 



LABIATJE. 



Ocimiiin micrantliiiiii, Willd., Enum., 630. 



Caballero (470); Pilcomayo River (965). January-March. 



Peltodon longipes, St. Hil. in Benth. Lali., 63. 



Between Escoba and Caballero (421). January. 



Only 4 spgcies of this genus are known, all of them occurring in 

 Brazil and the neighboring countries. The one here noted is a 

 small, trailing plant w^ith opposite, round-ovate, obtuse, crenate 

 leaves. Flowers in small heads on very long peduncles, the corolla 

 dark purple. It grows in hard soil on the railway track near 

 Caballero. 



Hyptis "brevipes, Poit., Ann. Mus., vii, 465. 



Asuncion (T5). November-December. 



Herbaceous. Stem stout, square, 4-6 dm. high, rough hairy on 

 the angles. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, sloping at 

 base into a short petiole, black dotted, sparsely hairy, the hairs 

 long, appressed, jointed. Flowers light purple spotted, the upper 



