COLOMBIAN EtPATOHirMS 291 



Huila: Neiva, Rusha A PcnneU, no. G58 (N. Y.). 



El Valle: in shady jilaccs near Buga, alt. 900 ni., Lehmann, no. 790 (Gr.); 

 shrubby spots of savannahs near Tocotd, alt. IGOO ni., Lehmann, no. 3429 

 (Gr.). 



Cauca: forests in highlands of Popayan, alt. 1300-2000 m., Lehmann, no. 

 B. T. 598 (Gr.); in densely shrubby places of the high plains about Popayan, 

 alt. 1600-2000 m., Lehmann, no. 6081, ace. to Hieron. 1. c. xxviii. 572 (1901). 



Without locality: Triana, no. 1180 (K., N. Y.); Linden, no. 861 (K.). 



34. E. pseudoglomeratum Hieron. Perennial, herbaceous or 

 somewhat woody, 1 m. high; stems several, erect, terete, leafy, when 

 young finely sordid-pubescent ; leaves opposite, short-petioled, ovate- 

 lanceolate, attenuate-acuminate, sharply serrate at the sides, entire 

 toward the rounded or somewhat cuneate base, 3-nerved, glabrous 

 or early glabrate and with depressed nerves above, below pubescent 

 on the nerves, 2.5-6.5 cm. long, half as wide, firm -membranaceous, 

 drying dark; heads 6-7-flowered, sessile or nearly so in spherical 

 glomerules corymbosely disposed at the ends of the branches; scales 

 about 12, glabrous, stramineous, pale toward the base, brownish 

 toward the acute or acutish tip, imbricated in about 3 series, mostly 

 4-ribbed and 5-nerved; corollas glabrous.— Hieron. in Engl. Bot. 

 Jahrb. xxix. 8 (1900). 



Without precise locality: merely from "Nouvelle Grenade," Triana, 

 no. 16 (Gr.). 

 [Ecuador.] 



35. E. inulaefolium HBK. Tall erect sparingly branched pale 

 grayish-green shrub sometimes attaining 4 m. in height; stem when 

 young and lower surface of the leaves densely tomentose; branches 

 terete or obscurely hexagonal, velvety (tomentum often yellowish or 

 even tawny in dried material); leaves opposite, rhombic-ovate to 

 oblong-lanceolate, caudate-attenuate at the entire apex, cuneate at the 

 also entire but more abruptly narrowed short-petioled or subsessile 

 base, coarsely few-toothed to finely crenate or subentire on the lateral 

 margins, above grayish-puberulent, below canescent-velvety, 1 dm. 

 long, 2-4 cm. wide, thick-membranaceous, 3-nerved well above the 

 base; heads 8-14-flowered, in terminal usually large flattish or convex 

 compound corymbs, subsessile; scales about 12, oval to narrowly 

 oblong, rounded at the tip, stramineous, the inner nearly or quite 

 smooth, the outer somewhat vehety on the back; florets pure white 

 (Smith, Pennell) or ochroleucous or erubescent (Langlasse), often very 



