306 ROBINSON. 



54. E. angustifolium (HBK.) Spreng. Shrub or small tree 

 attaining 6 m. in height (Andre), grayish-woolly; leaves opposite, 

 petiolate, oblong or elliptic, acute or obtusish, entire or undulate or 

 sinuate-dentate above the entire rounded base, 6-10 cm. long, 2.5-5 

 cm. wide, pinnately veined, glabrate and obscurely reticulated above, 

 gray-tomentose beneath; petiole stoutish, 5-8 mm. long; heads about 

 7-flowered, 1 cm. long, in compound terminal corymbs; involucral 

 scales about 11, subequal, 3-5 mm. long, bluntly pointed, the outer pu- 

 bescent on the back; florets much exserted; corolla with short proper 

 tube and longer slightly ampliated then somewhat contracted throat; 

 achenes beset with sessile glands. — Syst. iii. 415 (1826). Cacalia 

 asclepiadea L. f. Suppl. 352 (1781). Mikania angustifolia HBK. Nov. 

 Gen. et Spec. iv. 138 (1820). E. copcrense Hieron. in Engl. Dot. 

 Jahrb. xxi. 330 (1895), see Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. xlii. 37 (1906). 



Boyaca: Pdramo de Coper, Stiibel, no. 1629 (Berl., fragm. Gr.). 



Cundinamakca: Montserrate, near Bogota, from the herb, of de Parseval' 

 Grandmaison, no. 46 (Gr.); at foot of the Cordillera Occidental, near Bogota, 

 alt. 2800 m., Andre, no. 888 (Gr.); Guadalupe, alt. 3000 m., Bros. Apollinaire 

 & Arthur, nos. 69 (U. S.) and 72 (Gr.). 



Tolima: between Ibague and Cuesta de Tolima, Humboldt & Bonpland 

 (Par., phot. Gr.). 



Without locality: Mutis (Linn. Soc, phot. Gr.). 



A characteristic species, but, as now placed in its proper genus, 

 very ineptly named. 



55. E. pomaderrifolium Benth. Much branched firm-wooded 

 shrub; branches very leafy, round, gray-tomentellous ; leaves oppo- 

 site, petiolate, elliptical, entire, acutish, mucronate, 3.5-6 cm. long, 

 1-2.2 cm. wide, chartaceo-coriaceous, pinnately veined, glabrous 

 (except on midrib) and reticulated above, thinly gray-tomentose 

 beneath; petiole slender, 3-10 mm. long; heads al)0Ut 14-flowered, 

 9 mm. high, in dense compound leafy-bracted r()un(l-topj)e(l corymbs; 

 involucral scales about 14, subequal, loosely imbricated, lance-oblong, 

 pubescent, claret-colored toward the obtusish apex, 2-3 of the outer-, 

 most much smaller, slightly separated bractlets; corollas inferred 

 to be purple-tinged, with sliort giand-sj)rinkle(l proper tube and longer 

 upwardly villous cylinch'ical throat; aciienes beset on the angles with 

 sessile glands. — PI. Hartw. 199 (1845); Heering, Mem. Soc. neuchat. 

 Sci. Nat. 419 (1913). 



Cundinamakca: near Bogotil, Ilartwcy, no. 1098 (K., phot. Gr.); on moun- 

 tains near Bogotd, Holton, no. 321 (Gr.), slope of Montserrate, above Bogota, 

 iilt. 2X00 111., Minjor, no. 71, ace. to Heering, 1. c. 



