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attenuate at both ends, pinnately veined, entire, revolute on the 

 niarfiin, 8-17 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, firm in texture, glabrous and 

 rugose above, sordidly tonientose beneath; heads al)()ut lO-flowered, 

 in dense convex compound corymbs at length disposL>d in a more or 

 less pyramidal panicle; scales oblong, obtuse (except the outermost), 

 doi-sally pubescent and ciliolate; florets much exserted; achenes 

 beset on ribs and faces with sessile glands. — Encyc. ii. 409 (178G); 

 HBK. Nov. Gen. et Spec. iv. 131 (1820). 



" New Grenada": without precise locality, Triana, no. 1218 (K.). 

 [Ecuador and Peru.] 



27. E. baccharoides HBK. Smooth shrub, the young parts 

 viscid and often vernicose; branches leafy; leaves opposite, lance- 

 oblong, short-petioled, acute at both ends, thickish and rather firm, 

 6-8 cm. long, 1.7-2.5 cm. wide, pinnately veined, serrulate; corymbs 

 7-10 cm. in diameter, many-headed, often nodding or pendulous; 

 heads about 7-flowered; scales about 12, lance-oblong, acutish, 

 loosely 3-ranked, commonly glutinous, covered with minute sessile 

 glands and a few inconspicuous hairs; corollas with short gland- 

 dotted proper tube and a much longer smoothish cylindrical throat; 

 achenes beset on the angles wuth sessile glands. — Nov. Gen. et Spec, 

 iv. 132 (1820); Benth. PI. Hartw. 199 (1845). E. hogotense DC. Prod. 

 V. 181 (1836). 



Cauca: near Almaguer, Humboldt & Bonpland, no. 208.5 (Par., phot. Gr.). 



Cundinamarca: Santa Fe de Bogota, specimen from herb, of Delessert and 

 now in DeCandollean Prod. herb. (phot. Gr.); near Bogotd, Harlweg, no. 

 1100 (N. Y.); Holton, no. .309 (N. Y.); Guadalupe, alt. 3000 m., Bros. Apolli- 

 naire cfc Arthur, no. 87 (Gr.). ^ 



Without exact locality: Purdie (Gr.). 



A species striking on account of its curved or actually inverted 

 inflorescences. Whether this trait is constant or holds good only 

 at certain stages of development or under particular conditions 

 cannot be satisfactorily determined from the scanty material as yet 

 available. 



28. E. arbutifolium Benth. Shrub 9-12 dm. high, with round 

 smooth leafy branches; leaves smooth and leathery, opposite, lance- 

 oblong, at each end narrowed to an obtuse termination, inconspicuously 

 serrulate (the teeth minute, cuspidate, 2-3.5 mm. apart), coriaceous, 

 5-7.5 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. wide, glabrous, pinnately veined; heads 



