60 ROBINSON. 



opposite, ovate-elliptic, acuminate, serrate, except toward the obtuse 

 or rounded base (teeth 0.4-0.7 mm. high, 4.5-7 mm. wide), feather- 

 veined (chief veins about 5 on each side, lea\dng the midnerve at an 

 angle of 60°-65° and curving forward), reticulate- veiny, above scabrid, 

 dark-green, beneath pubescent, paler, membranaceous, 12-15 cm. long, 

 half as wide; petiole densely rusty- velvety, 8-25 mm. long; corymbs 

 pedunculate, raised well above the leaves, compound, rounded, the 

 branches wide-spreading; 1.5-4.5 cm. in diameter; heads short-pedicelled, 

 about 7.5 mm. high; involucre campanulate; scales 2-3-seriate, gradu- 

 ated, the outer apparently ovate-oblong, narrowed to an obtusish 

 apex; corollas white, scentless. — Poepp. in Poepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. 

 ac Spec. iii. 55 (1845). — Ancachs (or possibly Huanuco) in mountain 

 woods at Pampayaco (Cuchero), Poeppiq (Hofmus. Vienna, phot. Gr.). 



33. E. ORGYALOiDEs Robinson (p. 24). Shrub or tall herb with 

 slender dark-brown branches, nearly smooth and leafy to the inflores- 

 cence; internodes 4-6 cm. long; leaves opposite, lance-oblong, acuminate 

 at each end, undulate-margined and remotely cuspidate-denticulate, 

 chartaceo-membranaceous, feather- veined, glabrous and delicately 

 net-veined on both surfaces, a little paler beneath, the largest 1.6 dm. 

 long, 6 cm. wide; petiole minutely dusky-puberulent 4-7 mm. long; 

 panicle broadly pyramidal, leafy-bracted below, its slender opposite 

 branches widely spreading and flowering only toward the tip; heads 

 about 20-flowered, 4.5 mm. high and thick; involucre bell-shaped, 

 dusky- or greenish-stramineous, the scales imbricated but not very 

 clearly graduated, ciliolate but otherwise glabrous, the inner oblong 

 to linear, the outermost ovate, acuminate, often recurved at the tip; 

 corollas glabrous, only slightly and gradually enlarged upward, 2.5 

 mm. long; achenes (immature) 1.7 mm. long, glabrous; pappus 

 dull-white, 2 mm. long, the bristles about 30. — Loreto: near Tara- 

 poto, 1855-56, Spruce, no. 4546 (K., phot. Gr.). 



In many respects near the preceding, but with essentially glabrous 

 stems and obscurely toothed, or subentire leaves acuminate at the 

 base. 



34. E. DREPANOiDES Robinson (p. 12). Glabrous shrub reaching 

 a height of 4 m.; branches nearly round, curved-ascending, leafy; 

 internodes 1-2 cm. long; leaves opposite, lanceolate, broadly scythe- 

 shaped, acuminate, acute at base, serrate (teeth 0.6 mm. high, 2-3 mm. 

 wide), firmish, above flat, dull, sprinkled with fine granules, beneath 

 slightly paler, 3-nerved above the base, then feather-veined, 7-9 

 cm. long, 1.8-2.1 cm. wide; petiole glabrous, about 2 cm. long; 

 corymbs terminal, sessile, compound, rounded, 1 dm. or more in 



