8 ROBINSON. 



liv. 238, 311 (1918). This continental variety of the West Indian 

 E. celtidifolium was, at the time of its description, known to the writer 

 only from Colombia, where it had been twice collected near Santa 

 Marta. It has been rediscovered in northern Venezuela at Lower 

 Cotiza (Agr. Exp. Sta.), near Caracas, on the sunny side of a gorge, 

 alt. 925 m., Pitficr, no. 7897 (Gr.). Prof. Pittier describes it as a 

 shrub or small tree, 3-4 m. high, with small greenish flowers on droop- 

 ing branchlets. 



E. (§ Eximbricata) choricephaloides, spec, nov., ut videtur 

 herbaceum (basi ignota) verisimiliter 1 m. vel ultra altitudine; caule 

 ramisque graciUbus flexuosis t -etibus dense patenterque glanduloso- 

 puberuHs; internodiis usque ad 1 dm. longis; foliis oppositis del- 

 toideo-ovatis apice acuminatis basi subtruncatis vel leviter patenterque 

 cordatis lateraliter serratis- vel crenato-dentatis (dentibus inaequalibus 

 rotundatis vel subacutis utroque ca. 10) membranaceis supra dense 

 puberuHs et in nervis venisque maximis villosis ca. 6 cm. longis et 4.5 

 cm. latis a basi 3-nerviis; petiolo 1-3 cm. longo glanduloso-tomentello; 

 panicula laxissima foHaceo-bracteata 4 dm. alta 3 dm. diametro dense 

 glanduloso-puberula; pedicelhs filiformibus 1-2.6 cm. longis; capi- 

 tulis dissitis ca. 7 mm. altis 25-30-floris; involucri campanulati 

 squamis subaequaHbus anguste oblongis vel oblanceolatis acutis 

 viridibus 2-3-costatis dorso puberulis ca. 4 mm. longis apicem versus 

 scariosis et erosis; corollis albis glabris, tubo proprio fauces ampliatas 

 subaequante; dentibus limbi brevissimis ca. 0.3 mm. longis; achaeniis 

 pallide brunneis 1.8 mm. longis in angulis hispiduUs in faciebus con- 

 cavis laevibus; pappi setis ca. 12 albidis minute scabridulis. — Peru: 

 Department Amazonas, Province Chachapoyas, Mathews (K., phot, 

 and fragm. Gr.). In habit and very loose inflorescence recalling the 

 Mexican E. choricephalum Robinson, but differing in many points. 



E. (§ Subimbricata) coelocaule, spec, nov., fruticosum; ramis 

 curvato-adscendentibus teretibus robustis griseo-brunneis maturitate 

 glabris laevibus fistulosis; internodiis 3-4 cm. longis; foliis oppositis 

 lanceolato-oblongis vel rhombeo-lanceolatis longe acuminatis serratis 

 (basi cuneata integra excepta) penniveniis usque ad 17 cm. longis et 

 6 cm. latis firmiusculis glaberrimis (maturitate) supra viridibus 

 subtus pallidioribus glaucis puncticulatis; petiolo 1-4 cm. longo 

 rubescente glabro; foliis supremis minoribus lanceolatis integerrimis; 

 corymbo sessili terminali composito leviter convexo 1-1.5 dm. lato 

 dense crispeque fulvo-tomentello; capitulis numerosissimis inter se 

 binis vel- trinis aggregatis sessilibus vel brevissime pedicellatis ca. 

 5-floris 10-12 mm. longis 2-3 mm. crassis graciliter cylindricis; in- 



