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throat about half as long; achonos glabrous, 2.') mm. long. — Proc. 

 Am. Acad. liv. 237 (1918). 



"New Grenada": without more exact locality, Triana, no. 1191 (K., 

 phot. Gr.). 



31. E. Vargasianum DC. Shrub with terete ascending branches 

 clothed with dense sordid tomentum of purplish-brown jointed hairs; 

 leaves opposite, ovate-oblong, acute to acuminate, crenate-serrate, 

 shallowly cordate or more often rounded at base, 7-20 cm. long, 5-12 

 cm. wide, above closely beset w^ith somewhat swollen persistent bases 

 of small hairs and with subsessile glands, below gray-tomentose, 3- 

 nerved from a point decidedly above the base (2-4 pairs of minor 

 veins pinnately arranged between the actual base and the origin 

 of the main lateral nerves); petiole 1.4-3.7 cm. long, thick, densely 

 tomentose; cor^'mbs terminal, dense, trichotomous, manj'-headed ; 

 heads about 10-flowered, on short thick hirsute pedicels; scales about 

 3-ranked, stramineous, more or less stained with claret color, oblong- 

 lanceolate, thin, subscarious, 3-5-nerved, merely acutish to subatten- 

 uate, smooth on the back; achenes grayish or yellowish-brown, 

 studded with sessile glands. — Prod. v. 155 (1836); Klatt in Engl. 

 Bot. Jahrb. viii. 36 (1887); Heering, Mem. Soc. neuchat. Sci. Nat. v. 

 420 (1913). 



Cauca: in open woods on mountain slopes near Popayan, Lehmann, no. 

 93S, ace. to Ivlatt, 1. c. 



Antioqtjia: in central Ancles on a hill above America near Medellin, alt. 

 1700 m., Mayor, no. 392, ace. to Heering, 1. c. 



[V'enezuela.] 



No material from Colombia has been seen by the writer. The 

 species, however, appears to be frequent and somewhat widely dis- 

 tributed in Venezuela, from Caracas to Tovar. 



32. E. smilacinum HBK. Twining herb with furrow^ed and 

 ribbed stem and hispid-pubescent widely spreading almost divaricate 

 branches; leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, entire at the acute to 

 acuminate apex and abruptly narrowed to a rounded base, elsewhere 

 coarsely crenate-serrate, 3-nerved from the base, membranaceous, 

 hispidulous on the nerves and veins above, hispid beneath, about 

 5 cm. long, 2-2.4 cm. wude; heads sessile in spherical glomerules, 

 these disposed in a divaricately branched corymb or panicle; involu- 

 cre short-cylindric; scales oblong, green, striate, ciliated. — Nov. Gen. 



