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tis; inteiyiodiis 1.5-5 cm. longis; foliis oppositis breviter petiolatis 

 ayatis acuminatis obscure serratis basi rotundatis vel levissime 

 cordatis 2-3 cm. longis 1.5-2 cm. latis supra subglabris solum sparse 

 in nervis ven^que j)ilosis buUato-rugosis post exsiccationem nigrescen- 

 tibus subtus pallidioribus praecipue in nervis venisque sordido- 

 hirsutis , (pilis densis attenuatis curvatis maturitate firmiusculis) a 

 basi 3-nervatis submembranaceis margine juventate forte revolutis; 

 petiolo 2-4 mm. longo hirsute; inflorescentia e corymbo unico com- 

 posite terminali convexo 1 dm. diametro sistente vel e corymbis 

 minoribus densiusculis pluribus ramos terminantibus paniculam plus 

 minusve elongatam conjunctim formantibus; capitulis numerosis 

 7 mm. longis et crassis ca. 30-flons pedicellatis; involucri campanu- 

 lati squamis ca. 17 plerisque aequalibus lanceolate- vel oblongo- 

 linearibus acute mucronatis substramineis 2-3-costulatis ciliolatis 

 dorso plus minusA'e sordido-pubescentibus, 2-3 extimis angustissimis 

 subulatis pauUo brevioribus; corollis albis ca. 3.8 mm. longis limbum 

 versus paullo hispidulis; tubo proprio fauces distincte ampliatas 

 subaequante; achaeniis 1.8 mm. longis maturitate nigris hispidulis; 

 pappi setis ca. 18 albidis corollam subaequantibus apicem Aersus 

 sensim incrassatis. — Colombia: in field, Antizales, Dept. Bolivar, 

 alt. 1500-1800 m.. Dr. F. W. PenncU, no. 4460 (N. Y., Gr.). 



This species is obviously close to E. sotarense Hieron., which, how- 

 ever, has the pubescence on the pedicels of wide-spreading gland- 

 tipped hairs, while in E. dasyncurum it is of incurved non-capitate 

 hairs. E. sotarense also has the leaves, if one may judge from its 

 description, considerably less pubescent beneath, and the involucral 

 scales less attenuate. 



E. DENDROIDES Sprcng. Syst. iii. 415 (1826). In treating this 

 species in his recent study of the Ecuadorian Eupatoriums, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. liv. 359 (1918), the writer by oversight omitted a reference 

 to Bentham, PI. Hartw. 135 (1844), where there is a record of its 

 collection in the mountains of Loja, by Hartweg, no. 755. There is 

 an unnumbered Hartweg specimen of the species from the same 

 locality in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. By 

 error in the paper mentioned the species was given a parenthetical 

 authority (HBK.) which should have been deleted. 



E. DoMBEYAXUM DC. Prod. V. 167 (1836). This species, described 

 from material collected in South America bv Dombev, but without 

 indication of locality or even of the country, has never been satis- 

 factorily identified. It belongs to § Eximhricata and is described as 

 "fruticosum glaberrimum." The heads are in a loose panicle, many 



