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9. E. hypericifolium 11 HK. Slirub, hccoiiiinfi; 4 rn. in height 

 (Lehmann), ^\•ith ascending terete shghtly furrowed sordid-tomentel- 

 lous at length glabrate branches; leaves opposite, short-petioled, 

 ovate, acute, entire, 2-2.5 cm. long, 9-15 mm. wide, rounded at base, 

 sortlitl-pubescent and at maturity more or less glabrate above, rusty- 

 velvety beneath, 3-ner\-ed from the base; petiole slender 2-3(-G) mm. 

 long; heads cylindric, erect, 14 mm. high, 4-5 mm. thick, pedicelled, 

 in small corymbs terminal on the branches; scales stramineous 

 3(-5)-nerved, brownish toward the tip, the outer obtusely and the 

 inner acutely pointed; corollas lilac (Lehmann) or blue (Rusby & 

 Pennell); achenes black, 5-6 mm. long, upwardly hispid on the sharp 

 angles.— Nov. Gen. et Spec. iv. 118 (1820); Hieron in Engl. Bot. 

 Jahrb. xxviii. 567 (1901). E. conyzoides, var. incanum Hieron. 1. c. 

 xix. 45 (1894), ace. to Hieron. 1. c. xxviii. 567 (1901). 



Cundinamarca: among shrubs on savannahs near Pacho, alt. 1700-2200 m., 

 Lehmann, no. 7494 (X. Y.). 



Huila: on the Cordillera Oriental, near Neiva, Rushy & Pennell, no. 431 

 (N. Y.). 



Without locality: Humboldt A Bonpland (Par., phot. Gr.). 



10. E. iridolepis Robinson. Shrub 12-15 dm. high; stem 

 flexuous, gray-tomentulose (the hairs curved) ; leaves opposite, ovate, 

 petiolate, crenate-serrate except at the long-acuminate apex and 

 rounded or abruptly cuneate base where entire, 3-nerved above the 

 base, 6-7 cm. long, 2.4-3 cm. wide, minutely hirtellous above, softly 

 pubescent and orange-punctate beneath; corymbs terminal, rather 

 dense, convex, many-headed; heads about 10-flowered, 9.5 mm. high, 

 3-4 mm. in diameter, sessile by 3's and 4's at the tips of the branchlets 

 of the inflorescence; scales of the slender-cylindric involucre 4-5- 

 seriate, narrowly oblong, white and shining toward the base, sub- 

 herbaceous and green or (the innermost) rose-purple at the tip, the 

 intermediate often more or less squarrose at the subherbaceous acutish 

 and somewhat tomentellous apex; corollas roseate; achenes 3.3 mm. 

 long, hispidulous on and between the ribs. — Proc. Am. Acad. liv. 247 

 (1918). 



Magdalena: in one place only, on open hillside, edge of forest. Las Nubes, 

 alt. 1370 m., December, H. H. Smith, no. 615 (Gr.). 



11. E. ivaefoliumL. Erect, subherbaceous or distinctly shrubby, 

 4-12 dm. high, harshly pubescent, the hairs jointed and curved; 

 leaves opposite, lance-linear, 3-nerved, often proliferous in the axils, 



