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about 8-12-headed; pedicels 1-2 cm. long; heads 6-8 mm. high and 

 equally thick, about 46-flowered; involucre campanulate; scales 

 about 20, lance-linear, attenuate, shghtly puberulent, mostly 3-nerved 

 and 2-costulate; corollas purplish (Weddell) or white (Weberbauer), 

 with slender proper tube (1.7 mm. long) and perceptibly enlarged 

 cyhndrical throat (3.6 mm. long); achenes 2.5 mm. long, hispidulous 

 on the angles and faces; pappus-bristles about 18, delicate, white, 

 barbellate.— Chlor. And. i. 216, t. 40, f. B (1857).— Junin: near 

 Oroya, Dr. & Mrs. J. N. Rose, nos. 18,711 (N. Y.), 18,712 (N. Y.). 

 PuNO: on moist cliffs around Lake Titicaca, alt. 3900 m., Weddell. 

 Ancachs: in open grassy formation between Samanco and Caraz, 

 alt. 3700 m., Dr. Weberbauer, no. 3054 (Berl., fragm. Gr.). [Bolivia.] 

 76. E. Sternbergianum DC. Apparently herbaceous, 4 dm. or 

 more in height; stem terete, at first minutely puberulent, at maturity 

 glabrate, dark-purple; leaves opposite, ovate, acuminate, rounded at 

 the base, incisely serrate-dentate or deeply crenate-dentate (the 

 teeth numerous, unequal, often again toothed), membranaceous, 3- 

 nerved from the base, sparingly puberulent to glabrous above, scarcely 

 paler and somewhat puberulent beneath, 3-5 cm. long, 2.5-4.5 cm. 

 wide; petiole about 1 cm. long; corymbs dense, rounded; heads about 

 28-flowered, pedicellate, about 6 mm. high; involucre campanulate, 

 the scales subequal, linear, acutish, about 2-seriate, sparingly puberu- 

 lent or subglabrous; corollas white to reddish (Weberbauer), with 

 proper tube nearly equalling the cylindric throat, nearly glabrous; 

 achenes hispid. — Prod. v. 167 (1836). — Ancachs: at Tallenga, alt. 

 3600-3800 ni., Dr. Weberbauer, no. 2876 (Berl., fragm. Gr.). Lima: 

 at Obrajillo, ]]llkes Exp. (Gr.); near Huarochiri, alt. 2100-3000 m., 

 Hrdlicka (U. S.). Junin: near Oroya, alt. 3750 m.. Dr. & Mrs. J. N. 

 Rose, no. 18,685 (Gr., N. Y.). Cuzco: near Tinta, alt. about 3500 m., 

 Cook & Gilbert, no. 213 (U. S.); OUantaytambo, alt. about 3000 m., 

 Cook & Gilbert, no. 331 (U. S.). Department not ascertained: 

 among hills in the Cordilleras of Peru, Haenke (DC); at Pachacaya, 

 C. H. T. Townsend, no. 1505 (L . S.). 



This species according to Dr. Weberbauer is locally called hualmi- 

 hualmi. He also states that the fresh roots, softened in lukewarm 

 water, are employed as an abortive, and that a tea prepared from the 

 leaves is used for kidney and bladder troubles. 



[76a. E. GLECHONOPHYLLUM Less. Linnaea, vi. 105 (1831); 

 Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. liv. 363 (1918). — ^This species has not 

 been seen from Peru, but as it occurs in the Chilean valleys and also 

 without apparent distinction of form on the mountains of Ecuador, 



