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3. E. Moritzianum Scli. Bip. Glabrous and slifi;htly viscid 

 leafy-branched shrul), turning dark in drying and in all respects very 

 like the preceding species ; heads smaller, about 20-flowered ; involucre 

 about 3 mm. thick, cylindric, with a shortly pointed base. — Sch. Bip. 

 ex Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 5G5 (1901). 



Huila: Eastern Cordillera near Neiva, Rusbij A Pennell, no. 105G (N. Y.). 

 DEP.A.RTMEXT (El, Valle OR Caldas?) xot INDICATED: in Altamira above 

 Tolima, alt. 800-1500 m., Lehmann, no. 8725 (X. Y.). 

 [Western Venezuela.] 



Likely to prove a mere variety of the preceding, but convincing 

 intermediates not as yet discovered. 



4. E. laevigatum Lam. Viscid shrub, 1-3 m. high, glabrous 

 throughout; branches and pedicels angled; leaves light green, oppo- 

 site, rhombic-ovate to ovate-oblong, thickish, serrate, 3-ribbed from 

 the entire mostly cuneate base, transversely veined between the ribs; 

 heads (sessile to rather long-pedicelled) numerous, in dense moderately 

 convex corymbs; flowers dull white. — Encyc. ii. 408 (1786); HBK. 

 Nov. Gen. et Spec. iv. 117 (1820); Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 

 567 (1901). E. conyzoides Klatt in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. viii. 34 (1887), 

 not Mill, nor Vahl. 



Cauca: in bushy places on mountain meadows about La Teta and Buenos 

 Aires, Lehmann, no. 5188, ace. to Hieron. 1. c; among shrubs on savannahs, 

 alt. 1600 m., Tocotd, Lehmann, no. 3440 (Gr.); Cordillera Occidental, in 

 clayey soU, alt. 1600 m., Langlasse, no. 70 (Gr.). 



Huila: about La Plata, alt. 1000-1400 m., Lehmann, no. 8447, ace to Hieron. 

 I.e. 



Tolima: in coffee-plantation, "La Trinidad," Libano, alt. 1000-1200 m., 

 Pennell, no. 3309 (Gr.). 



Widely distributed from Mexico to Argentina, characteristic in 

 habit and fairly constant. 



5. E. chrysostictum Robinson. Subglabrous, erect perennial herb 

 or very likely shrub ; branches smooth, terete; leaves opposite, ovate, 

 caudate-acuminate, rounded at base, obscurely and remotely mucronu- 

 late-denticulate on the revolute margin, 1 dm. long, half as broad, 

 green and glabrous on both surfaces, shining above, dull and densely 

 punctate beneath, the dots being orange and translucent; petiole 1-1.5 

 cm. long; heads cylindric, about 26-flowered, 7 mm. in diameter; scales 

 stramineous, rounded and mucronulate at the closely appressed tip; 

 flowers inferred to be white. — Proc. Am. Acad. liv. 240 (1918). 



Magdalena: Santa Marta, H. H. Smilh, no. 660 (Gr., Mo.). 



