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raucronate, about 3 inches long and 1 inch across ; caducous petiolar 

 stipules lanceolate triangular, acute; axillary, long pedunculate cymes of 

 white flowers with salver-shaped 5-lobed corollas, smooth within, sericeous 

 without, less than half an inch long, and three to four bony-seeded cylin- 

 drical ovoid drupes one-third of an inch in diameter. (Adapted from 

 Chamisso and Scklechtendal, Linnaea, vol. 4, V- 183, 1829..) 



41303. Alegria divaeicata (Martius) Stuntz. Tiliaceas. Soto caballo. 

 (Luehea divaricata Mart.) 



Handsome tree 20 to 50 feet high with graceful ashy-tomentose 

 branches, oblong, rarely elliptic or oblong-lanceolate leaves, 4 inches long 

 and 2 inches broad ; terminal paniculate inflorescences of rather large 

 white to rose-colored flowers. Found along river banks in the forests of 

 Brazil. (Adapted from Martius, Flora Brasiliensis, vol. 12, part 3, p. 159, 

 1886.) 



41304. Maba sp. Diospyracese. 



An ebenaceous tree with alternate, entire leaves, and small flowers 

 almost sessile in their axils. Known as Maba in Argentina, where it is 

 used for its timber. 



Received as Maba argentinensis Speg., for which a place of publication 

 has not yet been found. 



41305. Myroxylon salzmanni (Clos) Kuntze. Flacourtiacea?. 

 (Xylosma salzmanni Eichl.) Ira-poita. 



A small spiny tree 10 to 15 feet in height, with somewhat variable 

 leaves, usually ovate-oblong to ovate, more or less crenate-dentate, 2 to 4 

 inches long and 1 to 2 inches broad; and dioecious inconspicuous greenish 

 yellow flowers borne in umbellate fascicles. Native of Brazil. (Adapted 

 from Martius, Flora Brasiliensis, vol. 13, part 1, p. 448, 1871.) 



41306. Piftadenia rigida Bentham. Mimosacere. 



" Unarmed mimosaceous shrub or small tree, entirely glabrous or with 

 the younger parts slightly pubescent ; leaves composed of four to six pairs 

 of many-paired linear falcate leaflets and axillary short spikes of small 

 white flowers." (Bentham, in Hooker's Journal of Botany, vol. 4, P- 338, 

 1842.) 



41307. Plazia argentea (Don) Kuntze. Asteracese. 

 (Hyalis argentea Don.) 



A composite shrub from Argentina called olivillo. Reported by Tweedie 

 to grow to the exclusion of almost everything else on the salt plains of 

 northern Argentina. 



41308. Pterogyne nitens Tul. Cajsalpiniaceae. Viraro. 

 A tall, stout, unarmed tree abundant in parts of Argentina and Brazil. 



It has pari-pinnate leaves, with usually alternate, lanceolate leaflets ; and 

 small flowers in short, loosely flowered, axillary clusters. (Adapted from 

 Engler and Prantl, Die Natiirlichen Pflanzenf a milieu, vol. 3, part 3, 

 p. 130.) 



" The wood is very strong and resistant. It is used for the construc- 

 tion of carts, except for the spokes. It is considered an excellent wood 

 in Misiones and is exported. In Salta it is also highly valued and is 

 used in coach making." (8. Venturi, Contribucion at Conocimiento de 

 los Arboles de la Argentina.) 



