TROPICAL AMERICAN EUPATORIEAE, 241 



paullo decrescentihus in costis obscure subremotcquc papillosis; 

 pappi sotis ca. 40 straniineo-albidis 5.5 mm. longis. — Colo.muia: 

 Las Nubes near Santa Marta, alt. 1372 m., 7 Feb., expedition of 1898- 

 '99, //. //. Smith, no. 660 (type Gr.). 



A species which appears -sexy clearly distinct in habit and many 

 technical characters from any previously attributed to Colombia. 

 Said to be common in thickets near streams, alt. 1220-1830 m. 



E. CONYZOIDES Mill. Diet. ed. 8, no. 14 (1768). Although this 

 species is by Hooker f. & Jackson, Ind. Kew. i. 916 (1893), referred to 

 Vernonia arhorcscens (L.) Sw., it is entirely clear from Miller's de- 

 scription stating that the leaves were 3-nerved and hastate in form, as 

 well as by his reference to the " Conyza fruticosa, folio hastato, flore 

 paUide jmrpureo " of Sloane's Cat. Jam. 124, that the plant he had in 

 mind was certainly not Vernonia arborescens (L.) Sw., which has 

 lance-oblong essentially entire pinnately veined leaves. Both from 

 Miller's description and from his direct reference to Sloane, who in his 

 turn cites Plukenet's plate 177, fig. 3, which forms the primary basis of 

 the Linnaean E. odoratuvi, there is no reason to suppose that Miller's 

 E. conyzoidcs was other than E. odoratum L., as was the later E. 

 conyzoidcs of Vahl. 



E. (§ Eximbricata) cuencanum, spec, nov., herbaceum perenne 

 decumbens gracile usque ad inflorescentiam glaberrimum; caule 

 tereti purpureo-brunneo laevissimo fiexuoso ca. 3 dm. alto apice 

 trichotomo-cymoso; foliis oppositis ovatis cordatis ad apicem obtusius- 

 culum angustatis serrulatis firmiuscule membranaceis 2-2.5 cm. longis 

 1.2-1.6 cm. latis a basi 3(-5)-nerviis in siccatione f uscescentibus ; 

 petiolo gracillimo 8-10 mm. longo; inflorescentiae ramis pedunculisque 

 cum glandulis atropurpureis stipitatis munitis aliter glabris; capitulis 

 paucis laxissime cymosis ca. 7 mm. altis 3^ mm. diametro 16-19- 

 floris; involucri anguste campanulati squamis lanceolato-linearibus 

 ca. 18 ca. 5 mm. longis acutis vel paullo erosis non ciliatis dorso 2- 

 costatis 3-nerviis cum glandulis paucis stipitatis munitis; receptaculo 

 parvo piano glabro; corollis ut videtur albis 3.5 mm. longis in limbo 

 5-dentato extrorsum paullo villosulis, tubo proprio 1.7 mm. longo 

 fauces cylindricas mediocriter ampliatas aequante; achaeniis pallide 

 brunneis glaberrimis 3 mm. longis basi callosis apice cum disco coro- 

 natis; pappi setis ca. 14, 3.5 mm. longis fragilibus caducis basi brevis- 

 sime connatis. — Ecuador: Cuenca, Scdle, communicated to the 

 herbarium at the Kew Gardens by Mr. W. W. Sauntlers, Oct. 1874 

 (type K., trac. Gr.). 



A species with the habit of E. gracile HBK., E. caducisetum DC, and 



