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E. I ill-. Stems I to :; m. high, terete, Btriate, covered al least 



when young with Bhaggy tawny wool: leaves opposite, thickish, short- 

 petioled, oblong, acuminate, sharply serrate, narrowed to :i crisped 1' 

 appressed-villous above especially upon tin- veins, soft-pubescenl upon 1 1 1 - - 



pinnate pi- inuloua veins beneath, concolorous, Blightly reticulate, 1.8 to 



1.6 dm. long, •_' to •"> cm. broad; petioles lanate, 5 mm. long; iufli 

 cence somewhat rigid, rather dense; lower branches widelj Bpreadi _. 

 thickish; bracts lance-linear, nearly equalling the heads; involucre sub- 

 turbinate; tin' scales pluriseriate, elliptical, regularly imbricated, at length 

 campanulately spreading, finely striate, ciliolate : flowers 1.2 cm.'lo 

 corolla 7 nun. ion--, cylindrical with little enlargement at the throat : 

 pappus Blightly tawny, of the eame length: achenea columnar, puberulent 

 on the angles. — Collected by Dr. Sereno Watson in the M ( istern por- 

 tions of Vera Paz and Chiquimula," 1885, nos. 74 a, 123. Types in herb. 

 Gray. Nearly allied to tin- \Y. Indian /•,' plucheoides, Griseb., but dif- 

 fering in its larger heads, broad smoothish obtuse involucral scales, etc. 



E. Loesenerii. Shrub, 2 to 3 m. high ; branches stout, terete, 

 opposite, curved-ascending, covered with a -mouth gray cortex with 

 longitudinal rifts, the lenticels not prominent : brauchlets Btoutish, 

 elongated, covered with a line ochraceous tomentum i tometimes red 

 to a mere pulverulence) : leaves opposite, petiolate, broadly ovate or 

 oval, shallowly cordate, pounded or very obtuse with slight macro at the 

 apex, obsoletely serrate or entire, 5 to G cm. long, 1 to 5 cm. broad, 

 subpalmately veined, pale green and pulverulent above, tomentulose and 

 ochraceous beneath : petioles 2 to 3.5 cm. lorn:, strongly channelled abi 

 Bubconnate at the base : heads numerous, about 20-flowered, in terminal 

 round-topped compound corymbs (9 to 12 cm. broad) ; pedicel- 7 to !i mm. 

 long; involucres tomentulose, 3 mm. long, eampanulate, the seal - Bub- 

 equal, obtuse or barely acute, ciliate, ochraceous or purplish, scarcely at 

 all herbaceous: corolla white or pale purple. 1 mm. I 

 resinous-punctate on the teeth: pappus-bristles about 20, white, unequal; 

 angles of the achene upwardly hispid. — Collected in Oaxaca by C. G. 

 Pringle on calcareous hills, La .altitude 1,800 m., 80 October, 1£ 



no. 0022. type (in herb. Gray). This plant was unfortunately determined 

 aa E. sordidum, Less., from the not altogether satisfactory description 

 of tli it species. A comparison by Mr. J. M. Green man of Mr. Prim 

 plant with authoritative material of E. tordidum now shows that the latter 

 is quite distinct, being j n fact oP the Hebeclinium group. E. Loesenerii 

 lias also been collected by E. W. Nelson along the Cuicatlan road, Valley 

 of Oaxaca, altitude 2,100 to 2,400 in., 3 October, 1894, no. 1549; by 



