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and beneath, being on the under surface furrowed (under a lens); 

 petioles 1.5 cm. long; heads about 14-flo\vered, 10-11 mm. high, 

 slender-pedicelied, nodding in dense compound trichotomous leafy- 

 bracted corymbs (about 13 cm. in diameter); involucre cylindrical, 

 5 mm. high, gray-green, pubescent; scales 10-12, linear, subequal, 

 scarcely imbricated, ciliate, obtusish; corollas about 6 mm. long, 

 white with roseate tinge; proper tube exceeded by the gradually 

 enlarged then slightly contracted throat; achenes 4-5 mm. long, 

 remotely knobbed with sessile glands on the ribs, otherwise glabrous; 

 pappus-bristles 5-6 mm. long, roseate, minutely scabrous. — Proc. 

 Am. Acad. liv. 245 (1918). 



Cundinamarca: hillside near Tequendama, alt. 2.500-2700 m., Pennell, 

 no. 2641 (Gr.). 



Sharing with E. thearfolium the peculiar trait of having the veinlets 

 on the under surface of the leaves exserted but furrowed as if chan- 

 nelled by an engraver's tool. Hence the name. 



61. E. theaefoliumBenth. Compactly branched shrub 1-1.2 m. 

 high; stem terete, hard-wooded; cortex grayish-brown; branchlets 

 slender, flexuous, rusty-pubescent and somewhat glandular; leaves 

 opposite, small, 2-3.5 cm. long, 9-12 mm. wide, oblong, acutish at 

 both ends or roundish at base, crenate-serrate, puberulent on the 

 midnerve and sprinkled on both surfaces with glistening sessile glands, 

 finely reticulated, the ^'einlets beneath prominulent and finely sulcate; 

 heads small, pedicellate, about 12-flowered, 8 mm. high, in many 

 small round-topped corymbs terminating the branches; scales few, 

 lance-linear, acutish, subequal, viscid-pubescent dorsally; florets 

 much exserted; corollas apparently white; achenes dark brown, 3 

 mm. long, minutely granular on the angles. — PI. Hartw. 199 (1845). 



Catjca: collected on the ascent to Sotara, in the Prov. of Popayan, Hartweg, 

 no. 1101 (K., sk. and phot. Gr.). 

 P^^enezuela.] 



62. E. latipes Benth. Viscid undershrub 3-9 dm. high, with 

 decumbent ascending leafy stem terminating in a dense or at length 

 open fastigiately branched corymb; leaves opposite, oval-oblong, 

 acutish to very obtuse at tip, rounded at base, serrulate, 3-7 cm. long, 

 2.2-3.7 cm. wide, coriaceous, pinnately veined, prominulent-reticu- 

 lated and punctate beneath; petiole 3-5 mm. long, broad, concave 

 above, often hairy and sometimes A-iscid; bracts spatulate to linear; 

 heads pedicelled, somewhat larger and more numerously flowered 



