300 ROBINSON. 



elliptic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, mostly round-based, 

 3-5-nerved, shallowly and remotely serrate; panicles ample, 2-3 dm. 

 or more in diameter; heads 45-70-flowered, separate, 12 mm. high, 

 nearly as thick; pedicels 3-25 mm. long; outer scales of the involucre 

 broadly ovate-oblong, acute, many-striate, the inner narrowly lance- 

 oblong; corollas roseate or lilac, 7 mm. long, slightly enlarged near 

 the limb, glabrous; achenes 3 mm. long, glabrous (DC.) or at least 

 microscopically hispid on the angles; receptacle slightly concave. — 

 Prod. V. 163 (1836); Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 572 (1901). 

 E. ecuadorae Klatt, Ann. k. k. Natur. Hofmus. Wien, ix. 356 (1894). 

 Campuloeb'nium surinamense Miq. Linnaea, xvii. 69, (1843), & 

 Stirp. Surinam. 182, t. 53 (1850). 



Magdalen a: open damp places in forest, generally near streams, Aqua 

 Dulce near Santa Marta, alt. 305 m., H. H. Smith, no. 920 (Gr., U. S.). 



Cauca: near Tuquerres, alt. 1400-1800 m., Lehmann, no. 5208, ace. to 

 Hieron., 1. c. 



[Central America to Peru and Brazil.] 



Leaves, according to a note of Lehmann, quoted by Hieronymus, 

 1. c, pale, yellowish-green. 



48. E. ornithophorum Robinson. Perennial herb, grayish- 

 green, tomentellous; stem striate-angulate, gray-brown; leaves 

 lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, pinnate-veined, bluntly and irregu- 

 larly toothed, bullate and scabrid above, paler and graj'-tomentose 

 beneath, 1 dm. long, 2.5-3.5 cm. wide, toward the base at first con- 

 tracted then expanded into a suborbicular toothed perfoliate disk 

 about 1.2-2 cm. in radius; heads about 22-flowered, 7 mm. high, 

 subsessile in glomerules disposed in a large open terminal cymosely 

 branched panicle ; receptacle flat ; involucre turbinate, about 4-ranked ; 

 scales lanceolate to (the ijinermost) linear, acute; corollas 3 mm. long, 

 purplish or violet; achenes 1.2 mm. long, coarsely granular on the 

 faces.— Proc. Am. Acad. liv. 254 (1918). 



Huila: Cordillera Oriental, east of Neiva, 7 Aug. 1917, Rusby tfc PenneU, 

 no. 1034 (N. Y., fragm. and phot. Gr.); foot of Cordillera Oriental, near 

 Neiva, Rushy & Pennell, no. 479 (N. Y., fragm. Gr.). 



Noteworthy on account of the perfoliate leaves, a feature not found 

 in any other Colombian species of the genus as yet recorded. The 

 name has l)een suggested by a perceptible resemblance of the pairs 

 of connate lea\<>s to l)irds with wings extended in flight. 



49. E. turbacense Hieron. Perennial herb, slightly woody at 



