Plants Collected in Paraguay. 227 



Sapitim glandulosiim (L.), Morong. 

 Hippomane glandulosa, L., Sp. PL, 1191. 

 Hippomane biglandulosa, L., Sp. PI., Ed. 2, 1431. 

 Sapium higlandulosnm^ Muell. Arg., Liniisea, xxxii, 116. 



Asuncion (196). November-December. 



A tree some 13 or more m. in height, with ashen-gray bark much 

 roughened and broken into lines on the trunk. The milky juice is 

 so copious that it is shed all over the ground when the leaves are 

 bruised by the wind. Leaves willow-like, alternate, the blades deep 

 green, coriaceous, serrulate, 10-16 cm. long and about 2 cm. wide, 

 biglandular at the base; on petioles 5-20 mm. long. Stipules small, 

 round, membranous, with ciliate or jagged edges. Flowers in spikes 

 at the ends of the branches, small, yellow, monoecious and dioecious; 

 when monoecious the pistillate flowers are at the base of the stami- 

 nate spikes. Staminate flowers with a perianth deeply 2- or 3- 

 divided, when 2-divided with 2 stamens, when 3-divided with 3 

 stamens. Fruit a fleshy capsule, 2-celled, containing 2 large seeds. 

 In fields, suburbs of Asuncion. 



8e1)astiaiia Ibracliyclada, Muell. Arg. in D.C. Prod., xv, pt. 2, 1178. 



Banks of the Tebicuary River (500). January. 



A very leafy shrub about 5 m. high, the short lateral branches 

 ending in stiff, sharp thorns. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, obovate, 

 oval or elliptical, entire or here and there with minute serrulations, 

 slightly revolute, the blades 2-4^ cm. long and 1-2 cm. wide, on 

 petioles about 5 mm. long. Flowers monoecious, the staminate 

 small, yellowish, 1-3 under broad, somewhat dentate bracts, in 

 spikes 1-2 cm. long at or near the ends of short branches. Pistil- 

 late flowers among the leaves on the stem, solitary or several 

 together in a cluster, on a peduncle 1-2 cm. long. Capsule pedi- 

 celled, glabrous, depressed-globose, 3-carpelled, with a thick, hard 

 shell, about 8 mm. broad; seeds nearly ovoid, glabrous, brownish, 

 about 4 mm. long, with a small, black, peltate caruncle at the base. 



Seliastiana corniculata (Muell. Arg.), Baillon Obs. Bot., 1. c. 



Asuncion (154). November. 



Herbaceous, or subligneous at base, much branched, about 6 

 dm. high. Leaves numerous, alternate, narrowly elliptical, bristly 

 serrulate, glabrous and silvery dotted above, pubescent beneath, 

 rounded at base, acute and mucronulate or sometimes obtuse at 

 apex, 2|^-4 cm. long and 6-16 mm, broad, on petioles 2-5 mm. long. 

 Staminate flowers minute, red, distichous, in setaceous spikes along 



