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branches, subglohose, 2-4 cm. in (Hameter; lieads about 11-flowored, 

 pedicellate; scales of the in\olucre oblong, straniinco-scarious, rounded 

 at the tip, woolly on the back; corollas white. — Nov. Gen. et Spec, 

 iv. 114 (1S20). 



"Regno Novo-Granatensi ?" Humboldt & Bnnpland, ace. to Kunth in 

 HBK. 1. c. 



[Ecuador.] 



This species, founded by Kunth on material of Humboldt & Bon- 

 pland without precise indication of its source, was by him doubtfully 

 attributed to Colombia. Subsequently rediscovered in Ecuador, it is 

 probably also a native of Colombia although not as yet fully demon- 

 strated in the latter country. 



23. E. niveum HBK. Shrub 1-2 m. high, in habit very like the 

 preceding, but the leaves (also silvery-white beneath) deltoid-ovate, 

 acute or acutish, more finely and definitely crenate; heads more 

 massed in large compound corymbs (1-2 dm. in diameter); involucre, 

 corollas, etc., as in the preceding. — Nov. Gen. et Spec. iv. 115, t. 

 342 (1820). 



Cauca: near Popayan? Humboldt & Bonpland, ace. to Kunth in HBK. 1. c. 

 NarijJa: between Meneses and Paste in the Cordillera Meridianal, alt. 

 about 3000 m., Andre (Gr.). 

 [Ecuador.] 



24. E. sciaphilum Robinson. Straggling shrub; stems soft- 

 woody, 2-4 m. long; branches terete, glabrate; branchlets tawny- 

 puberulent; leaves opposite, spatulate-obovate, quite entire, glabrous, 

 thick-coriaceous, sessile or nearly so, 5-8 cm. long, 1.8-3.2 cm. wide, 

 1-nerved; heads in a loose very convex corymb, about 10-flowered; 

 scales of the cylindrical involucre few (about 9), very unequal, acutish, 

 ciliolate but otherwise smooth; corollas much exserted, dark purplish- 

 violet.— Proc. Am. Acad. liv. 256 (1918). 



Antioquia: in light shade, alt. 2292-2350 m., Kalbreyer, no. 1445 (K.). 



Noteworthy for its fleshy entire leaves and attractive deeply 

 colored flowers. Seemingly promising for horticulture. 



25. E. iresinoides HBK. Spreading, reclining, or weakly climb- 

 ing, perennial, quite lierbaceous or more or less woody, 0.5-2 m. long, 

 light gray-green, short-velvety at least as to the branchlets and lower 

 surface of the leaves; the latter ovate, narrowed or acuminate to a 



