302 ROBINSON. 



HriLA: foot of the CordiJlera Oriental, near Xeiva, Rus})y cO Pennell, no. 

 477 (N. Y.). 



El Valle: La Laguna near Palmira, Cauca Valley, alt. 1300 m., Piitier, 

 no. 909 (Gr.). 



Cauca: in dry places between Popayan and Pindamon, Humboldt & Bon- 

 pland, no. 1914 (Par., phot. Gr.); Buenos Aires, alt. 1000-1500 m., Lehmann, 

 no. B. T. 1158 (N. Y.). 



Depart, not indicated: Lehmann, no. B. T. 128.3 (X. Y.); in clayey soil 

 on eastern slope of the Cordillera Occidental, Langlasse, no. 71 (Gr.). 



Rather attractive, highly variable species. Several formal varia- 

 tions, which have passed in different regions under many names, are 

 summarized (briefly and by no means clearl}^) by Kuntze, 1. c. In 

 Colombia the plant appears to be exclusively of the typical smooth 

 variety, but it exhibits strikingly different leaf-forms, namely 1) with 

 rather narrowly oblong leaves, cuneate at base; 2) a broader-leaved 

 form or state (corresponding to E. loniceroides HBK.) in which the 

 leaves are widely oblong to ovate, abruptly contracted or rounded at 

 base; and 3) an extreme of the preceding tendency with leaves nearly 

 orbicular. The last is illustrated by Andre's no. 881, said to have 

 whitish florets. These forms, while striking in their extremes, have 

 little classificatory value, leaves of different shapes occurring on shoots 

 from the same root. 



51. E. fuliginosum HBK. Slightly woody rusty-tomentose 

 climber; leaves opposite, lance-oblong, rather distantly denticulate, 

 acuminate, cuneate at base, 15 cm. or more long, about a third as 

 wide, green and scabrous above, dusky-tomentose beneath; veins 

 pinnate, prominent, the veinlets reticulated; petiole 2.5 cm. long; 

 panicle long-peduncled, divaricately branched, rusty-tomentose; 

 heads about 25-flowered, sessile or shortly pedicelled, crowded; 

 involucre hemispherical; scales oblong, obtuse, dorsally pubescent, 

 ciliate, about 3-ranked; florets supposed to be white; achenes dark, 

 2 mm. long, hispid on the angles. — Nov. Gen. et Spec. iv. 110 (1820); 

 Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 572 (1901). 



Tolima: in the Quindio Mountains near Alto de Guayabal and Quebrado de 

 Toche, alt. 430-GlO m., Ilumholdl ct Bonpland (Par., phot. Gr.). 



El Valle: at edge of dense woods near Tocotd, alt. 1600-2000 m., Lehmann, 

 no. 7G98, ace. to Hieron. 1. c. 



Cauca: in dense moist forests on western slopes of the Cordillera Occidental, 

 near Popayan, alt. 1500-2000 m., Lehmann, no. 8509, ace. to Hieron. 



Without locality: Triana, no. 1520, ace. to Hieron. 



52. E. popayanense Ilicron. Pithy and soft -wooded shrub 

 reaching 3-4 m. in height; branches purplish or brownish-green, 



