Tas. 8227. 
EUPATORIUM Rarritun. 
Central America? 
CoMPostvar. Tribe EUPATORIEAE. 
Evupatorium, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 245. 
Eupatorium Raffillii, Hems/., species ex affinitate H. tanthini, Hemsl. (Hebe- 
clinium ianthinum, Hook., B. M. t. 4574), a quo inflorescentia araneoso- 
tomentosa, capitulis majoribus subumbellatis et involucri_ bracteis 
paucioribus differt ; etiamque JL. sordido, Less., arcte affinis, a quo foliis 
cito glabrescentibus et capitulis majoribus subumbellatis recedit. 
Frutec 0'5-1 m. altus, ramis rectis teretibus primum rubro-brunneis 
tomentosis. Folia opposita, longe petiolata, crassiuscula, ovata basi 
* rotundata vel inferiora oblanceolata, basi cuneata, absque petiolo 12-15 
em. longa, 7-10 cm. lata, acuta, supra basin quintuplinervia, primum 
utrinque parce obscureque setulosa, margine minute calloso-denticulata ; 
petioli teretes, 3-8 cm. longi. Capitula numerosa, circiter 2 cm. diametro, 
in cymas compositas terminales erectas subglobosas 10-15 cm. diametro 
dispositi; pedunculi breves, rigidi, ferrugineo-tomentosi vel lanati, sub- 
umbellati. Involucri bracteae circiter 40, 3-4-seriatae, tenues, rubro- 
brunneae, hirsutae, lineares, exteriores breviores, filiformes, omnes acutae, 
interiores corollis aequales. Corollae lilacinae, omnes tubulosae; tubus 
supra medium inflatus, lobis parvis piliferis. Stamina inclusa. Styli 
longissime exserti. Achaenia glabra; pappi setae molles, albae, quam 
corolla tertia parte breviores.—Hebeclinium ianthinum, Hort. nonnull., 
non Hook. 
The history of the introduction of this Eupatorium into 
cultivation is not known. Mr. C. P. Raffill, of the tropical 
department at Kew, who procured a plant of it from the 
Birmingham Botanic Garden, called attention to it as being 
different from £. (Hebeclinium) ianthinum, under which 
name it was there grown. Whether it be really an unde- 
scribed species, it is difficult to say. It is certainly very 
near the two species with which it is compared above, and 
is also very near a specimen in the Kew Herbarium, 
collected at Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, by C. G. Pringle, 
n. 8048, issued as “ FL. subtriplinervium, K1.,” doubtless in 
error for E. septuplinervium, Klatt, published in Leopoldina, 
1884, vol. xx. p. 90, where Hebeclinium sordidum and #. 
macrocephalum, Schulz-Bip., non Benth., are given as 
synonyms. 
DecEMBER, 1908, 
