Plants Collected in Paraguay. 215 



Peperomia pseudo-Dindygulensis, C. D.C., I. c, 1. 1. 



Pilcomayo River (955). March. 



A low succulent plant 20-30 cm. high, witli downy stems and 

 leaves. Spikes very slender, 4-8 cm. long, ver}^ numerous. This 

 plant has a white rootstock, fibrously rooting at the joints, and with 

 buds here and there from which new plants spring, running for a 

 long distance under the leaves. It grows in deep woods under the 

 shade of large trees. It differs from the preceding species in having 

 a thicker and downy stem, elliptical, downy, 3 nerved leaves, slop- 

 ing at the base, 3-7 cm. long, while no. 393 is smooth throughout, 

 stems and leaves diaphanous, the leaves rounded and 5 nerved, 

 lj-2^ cm. long. 



Peperomia radicaiis, C. D.C., 1. c, t. 2. 



Pilcomayo River (1545). March. 



Growing with 955 and much like that. It differs in being much 

 smaller, the stems rising from an erect rhizome, leaves elliptical or 

 oval, H-2^ mm. long and 6-12 mm. broad, and with stems and 

 leaves more densely villous. 



LAURINEJE. 



Ocotea acutifolia (Nees), Mez., Jahr. Bot. Kiin. Bot. Cxart. Berl., v, 340. 



Near Asuncion (758). elune. 



A small tree 3-7 m. in height, with grayish bark, glabrous, the 

 young branches and inflorescence downy, with a yellowish-green 

 tint. Leaves shining green above, lighter and slightly downy 

 beneath, entire, elliptical, obtusely pointed at the apex and sloping 

 at the base into a petiole 12-18 mm. long, the largest blades col- 

 lected 10-16 cm. long and 4-6 cm. broad. Flowers in large, loose 

 terminal panicles, light yellow, or yellowish-green, fragrant. 



Growing by water-courses or in damp woods. 



Ocotea laxiflora (Meissn.), Mez., I. c, 370. 



Asuncion (152). November. 



A shrub 3 or 4 m. in height, with yellowish-green branches. 

 Flowers much like those of no. 758, but in more branched and 

 laxer axillary panicles. Leaves glabrous, coriaceous, and shining 

 as in that, but smaller, oblong-elliptical, the blades 7-10 cm. long 

 and 2-2| cm. broad, the lateral nerves scarcely visible. Thickets. 



