78 ROBINSON. 



petiole 7-11 mm. long, puberulent and sparingly murieulate; partial 

 inflorescences rounded moderately dense fastigiately branched 

 corymbs; heads about 24-flowered, 1 cm. long; pedicels filiform, 6-10 

 mm. long, bearing a filiform bractlet; involucral scales about 24, 

 narrowly lance-linear, unequal but little imbricated, acute, mostly 

 3-nerved and 2-costulate, purplish-green, dorsally granular-pulveru- 

 lent; corollas about 7.8 mm. long, deep rose-colored, gradually and 

 but little enlarged upward, glabrous; style-branches subuniformly 

 filiform, not distinctly clavate; achenes (still immature) 3 mm. long, 

 beset with sessile or subsessile glands; pappus-bristles about 27, 

 white, scabrid, nearly equalling the corolla. — Puno : Cuyocuyo, 

 Prov. Sandia, in bushy places, alt. 3100 m., JVcberbauer, no. 860 (Berl., 

 phot, and fragm. Gr.). 



66. E. siMULANS Robinson (p. 31). Herbaceous or shrubby, 1-2 

 m. high, exceedingly similar in habit and foliage to the preceding; 

 leaves smaller, 5-7 cm. long, 1.3-2.5 cm. wide, acute at base, scarcely 

 or not at all punctate beneath, feather-veined, some of the lower 

 lateral veins (often 2-3 on each side) somewhat more prominent than 

 the others; petiole not at all murieulate; involucral scales mostly 

 1 -ribbed, the upper part of softer texture, the outer scales somewhat 

 pubescent and ciliate toward the base. — Ancachs : among bushes 

 in the gorge of a brook on the slopes of the Cordillera Blanca, above 

 Caraz, alt. 3200-3600 m., 9 June, 1903, JVeberbauer, no. 3253 (Berl., 

 phot, and fragm. Gr.); among small bushes on a brook, above Ocros, 

 Prov. Cajatambo, alt. 3300 m., 2 Apr. 1903, Weberbauer, no. 2766 

 (Berl., phot, and fragm. Gr.). 



67. E. CUTERVENSE Hicron. Low, much branched, scarcely 

 lignescent, 1.5^ dm. high; stems round, covered with dark articu- 

 lated stiffish hairs; leaves opposite, subsessile or on very short peti- 

 oles (scarcely 2 mm. in length), broadly ovate, cordate, short-acumi- 

 nate, chartaceous, somewhat shallowly crenate, dull yellowish-green 

 drying dark, when young sparingly beset on both surfaces chiefly on 

 the nerves with rigid hairs, later glabrate above, somewhat 5-nerved, 

 at most 2 cm. long, 18 mm. wide; corymbs or cymes loose, few-headed; 

 pedicels sometimes as much as 5 cm. long; heads 30-35-flowered; 

 involucre campanulate; the scales subequal, little imbricated, about 

 20, dull-green, lanceolate, acuminate, mucronate, villous-ciliate, 

 sparingly villous dorsally on the upper part, the hairs jointed, flexu- 

 ous, hyaline; corollas yellowish-white after drying, glabrous outside, 

 4.5 mm. long, the slender proper tube about equalling the enlarged 

 throat; achenes dark, roughened on the upper part of the concolorous 



