EUPATORIUMS OF PERU. 63 



petiole-like entire base; heads short-pedicelled, in dense rounded 

 corymb or at length loose irregular corymbose panicle, about 20- 

 flowered; involucre campanulate, about 2-seriate, the inner scales 

 oblong 2-3-ribbed and smoothish to the middle, ending in tomentel- 

 lous and erubescent rounded slightly dilated tips of softer texture, 

 a few of the outer scales progressively shorter and narrower, the 

 outermost linear, acutish; corollas said to be red, glabrous, slightly 

 and gradually enlarged upward; achenes dark, 2.5 mm. long, puber- 

 ulent, tapering to a sharp villous base; pappus-bristles about 30, 

 yellowish-white, barbellate. — Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxii. 771 

 (1897). Gyptis Commcrsonii Cass. Diet. xx. 178 (1821). Eupa- 

 torium Bacleanum DC. Prod. v. 157 (1836). Gyptis Commersoni 

 [Cass.] Bak. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. pt. 2, 314 (1876), in ?,yn. — Peru 

 WITHOUT LOCALITY (as "inter Peruanas"): Hacnke, ace. to DeCan- 

 doUe, 1. c. [Southern Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentine.] 



40. E. TRACHYPHYLLUM Hieron. \Yoody climber; branches round, 

 closely clothed with a short and stiffish refiexed tawny pubescence, 

 the hairs pointed, non-glandular; leaves opposite, ovate-oblong, 

 caudate-acuminate, rounded at base, entire, concolorous, firmly 

 membranaceous, 3-nerA'ed from somewhat above the base, above dull 

 green, scabrous-puberulent, rugulose-reticulated, beneath tomentellous 

 especially on the prominent reticulation, mostly 7-12 cm. long, about 

 a tUird as wide, petiole 1-2 cm. long, retrorsely velvety -puberulent; 

 panicle branched at right angles, the branches naked except at the 

 densely floriferous tip; heads 6-7-flowered, subsessile, numerous in 

 close subglobose glomerules; involucres narrowly campanulate, sca- 

 rious, stramineous, the scales very unequal, mostly linear-oblong, 

 slightly ciliate toward the obtuse or rounded tip, 3-5-costulate, 

 the inner promptly deciduous; corollas pale, probably flesh-colored, 

 glabrous, slenderly tubular, slightly and gradually enlarged upward, 

 6 mm. long; achenes purplish-black 2.3 mm. long tapering toward the 

 callose base, at the summit slightly constricted into a short neck bear- 

 ing the pappiferous disk; pappus-bristles about 30, white with a light 

 yellow tinge, barbellate. — Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxxvi. 467 

 (1905). — Cajamarca: near Tambillo, 29 Aug., 1878, von Jclshi, no. 

 697 (Berl., fragm. Gr.). 



41. E. ACUMINATUM HBK. Nov. Gen. et Spec. iv. 107 (1820); 

 Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxxvi. 469 (1905); Robinson, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. liv. 290 (1918).— Cajamarca: near Tambillo, 13 Aug., 1878, 

 von Jelski, no. 790, ace. to Hieron. 1. c. [Colombia.] 



The writer has had no opportunity to verify the Peruvian record of 



