COLOMBIAN EUPATORIUMS. 301 



base, 2 m. liigli; branches round or nearly so, tawny-pubescent; 

 leaves opposite, nearly sessile, lanceolate, membranaceous, green and 

 glabrous above, scarcely paler and rusty -pubescent on the midrib 

 and chief veins beneath, attenuate to each end, remotely cuspidate- 

 denticulate, 13-15 cm. long, 5-6 cm. wide; panicle rusty-pubescent, 

 open; heads 25-28-flowered, about 5 mm. high, some sessile but mostly 

 pedicelled; involucre campanulate; scales ovate-oblong, 3-4-ranked, 

 mostly 3-4-ribbed toward the base, somewhat silky-pul)escent dor- 

 sally toward the tip; florets doubtfully reported as yellowish (Hieron.). 

 — Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxi. 332 (1895), xxviii. 573 (1901). 



BoLfvAR: on the volcano Turbaco, Stiihel, no. 51, ace. to Hieron., 1. c. 

 Cauca: in dense woods on savannahs along the Rio Ortega, district of 

 Popayan, alt. L500-1800 m., Lehnuinn, no. 5971 (Berl., frag. Gr.). 



Ynv. typicum. Leaves lanceolate, 5-6 cm. wide; heads 25-30- 

 flowered. (Lit. and exsicc. as above.) 



Var. ovatifolium Hieron. Leaves ovate, about 7 cm. broad, 

 abruptly contracted to the cuneate base; florets fewer, 12-19. — Hieron. 

 in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 573 (1901), as ovatifolia. 



Without locality: Triana, no. 1450. 



No material of this variety has been seen by the writer and the 

 character has been compiled from the original description. 



50. E. amygdalinum Lam. Suffruticose, either smooth or (in 

 extra-limital forms) in varying degree pubescent or glandular, often 

 viscid, 3-6 dm. high; stems erect, leafy, mostly simple to the in- 

 florescence; leaves opposite, sessile, lance- or elliptic- or ovate-oblong, 

 firmly chartaceo-coriaceous, brownish-green, mostly obtuse, subentire 

 or undulate or crenate-serrate, veiny, 5-10 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide; 

 panicle terminal, somewhat fastigiately branched, 3-10 or more cm. 

 in diameter; heads about 40-flowered, 7-8 mm. high; involucre 

 turbinate-campanulate; scales about 40, linear, usually purple- 

 tinged; florets rose-colored or lilac, rarely white. — Encyc. ii. 408 

 (1786); Bak. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. pt. 2, 312, t. 83 (1876), which see 

 for extended synonymy; Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 574 

 (1901). E. loniceroides HBK. Nov. Gen. et Spec. iv. 116 (1820). E. 

 amygdalinum, forma lonicerodes [HBK.] Ktze. Rev. Gen. i. 337 (1891). 



Magdalena: near Santa Marta, alt. 610 m., H. H. Smith, no. 614 (Gr.). 

 Cundinamarca: eastern slope of the Andes of Bogotd, near Quetame, 

 Andre, no. 881 (Gr.). 



