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glandular hairs; Iraxfs opposite, narrowly ()\at<'-lancc<)lat<' to lanceo- 

 late, serrate, caudate-attenuate to a very nari'ow usually falcate tip 

 and gradually cuneate to a shortly petioled base, thin, deep green 

 above, scarcely paler beneath; heads very slender, acute in bud, 

 7-8-flowered, some sessile but most of them slender-pedicelled, in 

 leafy -bracted panicles composed of small corymbosely (lis{)osed 

 cymes; involucre about 7 mm. long; scales (l-)3-nerved, white, with 

 acutish greenish tips, essentially glabrous. — Prod. v. 148 (1836). 

 Osmia leptoccphala (DC.) Sch. Bip. Pollichia, xxii.-x.xiv. 253 (1866). 



El Valle: Cuesta de Toootil, Cordillera Occidental, alt. 150()-19()() m., 

 Pittier, no. 735 (Gr.). 

 [Ecuador and Peru.] 



17. E. barranguillense Hieron. Shrub, 3 m. high, with sub- 

 scandent stems and glabra te divaricate slightly furrowed branches; 

 leaves opposite, rhombic-ovate, acuminate at the apex, usually cuneate 

 at base, 6-7 cm. long, about half as wide, 3-ner\'ed, very slightly 

 pubescent on both surfaces, scarcely paler and punctate beneath; 

 petiole 0.8-1.8 cm. long; heads 6-8-flowered, very slender, in flattish- 

 topped corymbs; involucre-scales pale, greenish-white, 5-7-nerved,. 

 (for the §) loosely imbricated, not much darkened toward the acutish 

 somewhat ciliated tip, slightly puberulent on the back; florets whitish.. 

 — Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 564 (1901). 



Atlantico: in open bushy places around Barranguilla, flowering Nov.- 

 Dec, Lchmann, no. 7953 (Berl., fragm. and phot. Gr.). 



18. E. subscandens Hieron. Closely branched, subherbaceous- 

 to somewhat woody, at length reclining or weakly climbing, 2.5 m. 

 high, with terete soon almost glabrate stem and sap-green foliage; 

 leaves lance-ovate, opposite, petiolate, entire or very sparingly and 

 remotely small-toothed, caudate-acuminate, often falcate, 3-nerved, 

 rounded or shortly pointed at base, sparingly hirtellous above, more 

 or less pubescent on the veins beneath; branches divaricate; heads 

 cylindric, 1 cm. long, 4-5 mm., in diameter; involucral scales in 

 about 4 ranks, 3-nerved, rounded at the closely appressed and darkened 

 tip; pedicels mostly curved or hooked, 1-1.5 cm. long; corollas lilac- 

 blue (Lehmann). — Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxii. 742 (1897). 

 E. comjzoides, var. ixiuciflonim Hieron. 1. c. .xix. 45 (1894), not Bak. 

 E. imichcUum Klatt in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. viii. 35 (1887), not HBK. 

 E. tequendamensc Hieron. 1. c. xxix. 6 (1900). E. elongatum Willd.. 



