22 ROBINSON. 



Yani, Prov. Larecaja, alt. 3500 m., Mandon, n. 263 (Gr., N. Y.); 

 without exact locality, Bang, no. 1912 (Gr., N. Y., U. S.). Both speci- 

 mens distributed as E. scopuloruvi. It is quite impossible to believe 

 that this plant, with very characteristic, deeply lobed or even divided 

 leaves, is conspecific with the plant which Weddell, Chlor. And. i. 216 

 (1857), described and illustrated as having serrate leaves. 



E. (§ Cylindrocephala) mallotum, spec, nov., lignescens 

 verisimiliter elatum et subscandens molliter tomentosum \e\ to- 

 mentellum, pilis densis brevibus incurvis; caule tereti oppositi- 

 rameo; foliis oppositis deltoideo-ovatis acuminatis integris basi 

 rotundatis vel subtruncatis vel etiam pauUo cordatis 2-3.5 cm. longis 

 1.4-2.7 cm. latis ima a basi 3-nerviis supra griseo-tomentellis subtus 

 canescenti-tomentosis ; petiolo dense tomentoso 3-5 mm. longo; cap- 

 itulis 13 mm. longis 8 mm. diametro ca. 30-floris numerosis corymbo 

 composito planiusculo terminali dispositis; pedicellis 6-20 mm. longis; 

 involucri maturitate c\lindrici squamis 5-6-seriatis arete imbricatis 

 apice rotundatis ciliolatis, extimis ovatis dorso tomentosis, ceteris 

 dorso glabriusculis saepe apicem versus fuscescentibus vel viridi- 

 maculatis; coroUis verisimiliter violascentibus glabris, 6 mm. longis 

 pauUo gradatim sursum ampliatis; achaeniis gracilibus deorsum 

 decrescentibus 5.2 mm. longis, faciebus nigris glabris, angulis pallidis 

 sursum hispidulis; pappi setis sordide albis inaequalibus scabridis 

 vix sursum incrassatis. — E. Clematitis, var. tomentosum Sch. Bip. 

 Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xii. 81 (1865), without char., & Linnaea, xxxiv. 535 

 (1865-66), as Clcmatidis var. tomcntosa and also without char. E. 

 conyzoidcs, \'ar. incanum Britton, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xviii. 333 

 (1891), and probably of Baker in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. pt. 2, 278 (1876). 

 — Bolivia: Dept. LaPaz, Prov. Larecaja: "viciniis Sorata; inter 

 Munaypata et rivum Chalassayo, in schistosis. Reg. temp. 2600- 

 2700 m.", Mandon, no. 249 (type, Gr., N. Y.); Sorata, alt. 2440 m.. 

 Rushy, no. 1626 (N. Y.); Prov. Yungas, alt. 1220, Rushxj, no. 1625 



(N.^Y.). 



From the expression "an spcc.V appended to his identification 

 Schultz seems to have surmised the probable distinctness of this 

 plant, though provisionally treating it as a variety of E. clematitis DC. 

 The latter, a rare and little known Peruvian species, founded upon 

 Poeppig's no. 3108 (of which a small and poor fragment from the 

 herbarium of the late F. \V. Klatt is now in the Gray Herbarium), 

 has narrowly triangular to lance-oblong thinnish and essentially 

 glabrous leaves, much longer and more slender petioles, and a more 

 elongated and looser inflorescence. Prof. Britton, 1. c, is very likely 



