70 ROBINSON. 



stalked glands; achenes brown, covered throughout with subglandu- 

 lar hairs; pappus-bristles 50-60, yellowish-white. — Hieron. in Engl. 

 Bot. Jahrb. xl. 369 (1908). — Amazonas: near Molinopampa east of 

 Chachapoyas, alt. 2000-2300 m.. Dr. A. Weberbauer, no. 4359. 



Not seen, the description h ere condensed from the original diagno- 

 sis by Hieronvmus. 



55. E. CHAMAEDRiFOLiuM HBK. Nov. Gen et Spec. iv. 113 (1820); 

 Benth. PI. Hartw. 135 (1844); Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. liv. 353 

 (1918). — PiURA? Originally collected "on the whole range of moun- 

 tains" between Gonsanama, Ecuador, and Ayavaca, Peru, obviously 

 close to the boundary between the two countries, Humboldt & Bon- 

 pland no. 3485 (Par., phot. Gr.). A specimen collected in the moun- 

 tains of Loja, Ecuador, by Hartweg, and although unnumbered 

 doubtless being a portion of his no. 759 cited by Bentham, 1. c, is in 

 the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. [Ecuador.] 



56. E. MARRUBiiFOLiUM Hieron. Grayish villous-hirsute herb; 

 stems terete, purplish, covered with a loose, at first spreading, at 

 length mostly deflexed pubescence of slender white hairs; leaves 

 opposite, broadly ovate, obtuse, crenulate except at the subcordate 

 base, 1-1.5 cm. long 8-13 mm. wide, thickish, above finely bullate- 

 reticulate with depressed veins, gray-pubescent, beneath shaggy gray- 

 velvety, 3(-5)-nerved nearly from the base; petiole 3-5 mm. long, 

 shaggy-villous ; corymbs trifid, dense, the parts rounded; heads about 

 20-flowered, subsessile or shortly pedicelled; involucre campanulate, 

 3-4-seriate, brownish-stramineous; scales mostly ovate-elliptical, 

 thin, rounded at the summit; corollas 3.5 mm. long, glabrous, scarcely 

 enlarged upward; achenes (young) 2.2 mm. long, stramineous, at 

 length turning dark-brown, slightly hispid toward the summit; pap- 

 pus-bristles about 30, bright white, nearly equalling the corolla.— 

 Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxxvi. 466 (1905). — Cajamarca: be- 

 tween Chota and Cutervo, June, 1879, von Jelski, no. 799 (Berl., 

 fragm. Gr.). 



