﻿60 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



41295 to 41314. 



From Buenos Aires, Argentina. Presented by Mr. Benito J. Carrasco, 

 director general, Botanic Garden. Received September 7, 1915. 



41295. Aeschynomene hystrix Poir. Fabacese. 



A leguminous (fabaceous) plant with odd-pinnate leaves; small linear 

 or slightly oval leaflets, obtuse at apex and base ; half arrow-shaped 

 stipules ; and short axillary racemes of bright yellow flowers. 



41296. Astronium balansae Engl. Anacardiacese. 



Glabrous anacardiaceous tree with very hard wood ; subcoriaceous 

 leaves composed of four to five pairs of long petiolulate, oblique, lanceo- 

 late leaflets with sharply serrate margins; dense terminal panicles of 

 very small flowers; and globose drupes. (Adapted from the original 

 description, Engler, Botanische Jahrbiicher, vol. 1, p. Jf5, 1881.) 



" This is one of the most extensively utilized species of hardwood in 

 the country. It is abundant, and is exported from the mountain regions 

 as planks, sleepers, posts, etc." (S. Venturi, Contribution al Conocimi- 

 ento de los Arboles de la Argentina.) 



41297. Beloperone plumbaginifolia (Jacq.) Nees. Acanthacea?. 



" Small, shrubby acanthaceous plant, 1 to 2 feet high, with long peti- 

 olate soft leaves and short spikes of rich purple flowers, one-half inch 

 long. Found in South America from Brazil to Argentina." (Wallich, 

 Plantae Asiaticae Rariores, vol. 3, p. 102, 1832.) 



41298. Carica quercifolia (St. Hil.) Benth. and Hook. Papayacese. 



A small, rapid-growing tree, native of Paraguay, with large palmately 

 3-lobed leaves and small fruits, which are said to contain a larger per- 

 centage of papain than those of Carica papaya. 



41299. Colliguaja integerrtma Gill, and Hook. EuphorbiaceaB. 



Colignay. 

 Small euphorbiaceous shrub with opposite or alternate, narrowly lanceo- 

 late, entire, somewhat rigid leaves borne only on the upper part of the 

 branches ; monoecious spikes of flowers borne on the ends of the branches, 

 the lower flowers being pistillate, the upper staminate. The habit resem- 

 bles that of a Stillingia. (Adapted from Hooker, Botanical Miscellany, 

 vol, 1, p. 1J,0,'1830.) 



41300. Sebastiania kxotzschiana brachyclada (Muell. Arg.) Pax and 



K. Hoffm. Euphorbiacese. 

 Euphorbiaceous shrub with slightly spiny, alternate branches and 

 inconspicuous monoecious flowers. It is called Blanquilloby the people of 

 Argentina where it is a native, and is regarded by them as being 

 poisonous. 



41301. Flourensia campestris Griseb. Asteracese. 



* A glabrous, yellow-flowered shrub from Argentina, up to 6 feet in 

 height, with oblong-lanceolate leaves. A composite (Asteracese) closely 

 allied to the tar-bush (F. cernua) of the southwestern United States and 

 somewhat resembling the sunflowers (Helianthus spp.) in the structure 

 of the flowers. 



41302. Guettarda URUGUENSis Cham, and Schlecht. Rubiacese. 



A small rubiaceous tree 15 to 20 feet high, with twisted branches; 

 opposite membranaceous, lanate leaves of varied forms ranging from 

 ovate or elliptic to cuneate-elliptic and lanceolate, always acute, often 



