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riiiiis; puppi setis 41-50 iniuute suh.sciihriiti.s corolhiin subiieciuuntibus; 

 styli ramis clavellatis. — Guatemala: in tall woods, Coban, Alta 

 Vera Paz, alt. 15o0 m., April, 190S, //. mn Tilrckhdm, no. II, 22G1 

 (type Gr.). 



This species with many of the characters of E. dalcoidcs (DC.) 

 Henisley differs markedly in having its leaves finely and remotely 

 cuspidate-denticulate instead of serrate and very obscurely, if at 

 all, punctate, and in the distinct tliough fine reticulation on their 

 upper surface. 



E. (§ Subimbricata) miserum, spec, nov., herbaceum gracilli- 

 mum perenne 2-2.5 dm. altum; radice e fibris duris gracilibus com- 

 posita; caulibus 1-3 teretibus ca. 1 mm. diametro oljscure fulvo- 

 tomentellis simplicibus usque ad inflorescentiam paniculatim ramosam ; 

 foliis oppositis lanceolatis attenuatis ad apicem obtusiusculum crenatis 

 (basi anguste cuneata integerrima excepta) membranaceis utrinque 

 viridibus et paullo puberulis a basi 3-nerviis 1-2 cm. longis 2-5 mm. 

 latis; petiolo 2-3 mm. longo; paniculae diffusae ramis inferioribus 

 oppositis superioribus plerumque alternis gracilibus; pedicellis fili- 

 formibus 1-9 mm. longis; capitulis 4.5 mm. altis ca. 25-fioris3.5 mm. 

 diametro; involucri turbinato-campanulati persistentis squamis lan- 

 ceolatis vel lanceolato-linearibus tenuibus viridibus, interioribus sub- 

 aequalibus glabris, exterioribus paucis gradatis plus minusve dorso 

 puberulis; receptaculo parvo piano calvo glabro; corollis lilaceis vel 

 roseis 2 mm. longis, tubo proprio 5 mm. longo, faucibus subcylindricis 

 distincte ampliatis 1.3 mm. longis, limbi dentibus 5 deltoideis dorso 

 paullulo hispidulis; achaeniis immaturis saltim in angulis pubescenti- 

 bus. — Colombia: at the Falls of the Truando, just south of the border 

 of Panama, Dr. Arthur Schott, nos. 2 (type Field Mus., phot. Gr.), 1 

 (Field Mus., phot. Gr.). 



An inconspicuous plant clearly of a small group of annuals and 

 slender perennials, represented by E. sideritidis Benth., E. Sinclairi 

 Benth., E. capillipcs Benth., and E. lloense Hieron. 



EuPATORiUM MuELLERi Sch. Bip. ex Klatt, Leopoldina, xx. 90 

 (1884), as Mullcri. Although this name has in recent years been 

 rather frequently employed in identifications of Mexican specimens, 

 it now becomes clear that it has not been rightly applied. Fragments 

 and an excellent sketch of the type of E. Muelleri which came to the 

 Gray Herbarium with the Klatt Compositae prove it to have been 

 precisely the plant later described and well figured by Coulterj Bot. 

 Gax. XX. 47, t. 5 (1895), as his proposed monotypic genus Mallinoa 

 corymhosa. The writer, Proc. Am. Acad. xlix. 433 (1913), has already 



