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75. E. ibaguense Scli. Bip. Herbaceous, branched; stem terete, 

 brown, pithy, spreading-villous, the hairs attenuate, non-glandular, 

 jointed; internodes 8-11 cm. long; leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, 

 acuminate, serrate or crenate-dentate (teeth of the cauline 12-16 on 

 each side, often again 1-2-toothed), rounded or subtruncate at the base, 

 thin-membranaceous, green on both surfaces, scarcely paler beneath, 

 spreading-villous on the nerves and veins to nearly glabrate, 6-8.5 cm. 

 long, 3.5-6 cm. wide, 3-nerved from the base, the lateral nerves 

 quickly again branched; corymbs terminal and from several of the 

 upper axils, rather dense; heads about 30-flowered; pedicels slender, 

 pubescent, 2-6 mm. long; involucral scales 12-16, lance-linear, acutish, 

 subequal, thin, pale-green and somewhat stramineous, pubescent 

 especially toward the acutish erose tip; corollas white, villous toward 

 the summit, the slender tube about equalling the enlarged subcylindric 

 throat; pappus-bristles about 28, white, united at the base into a 

 little white disk or ring; achenes black, hispid. — Sch. Bip. ex Hieron. 

 in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xl. 384 (1908). 



Cauca: Capilla-highlands of Popayan, alt. 1700-1800 m., Lehmann, no. 

 B. T. 1155 (N. Y.). 



Without locality: Lehmann, no. 5194 (N. Y.); Linden, no. 2219, ace. to 

 Sch. Bip., 1. c; Karsten, ace. to Sch. Bip., 1. c. 



[Venezuela.] 



A species in technical characters close to the following and also 

 nearl}' related to the Mexican E. pazcuarcmc HBK. 



76. E. pichinchense HBK. Herbaceous perennial, flexuous and 

 said to be climbing, villous ; the hairs long, soft, attenuate, not gland- 

 tipped, but with dark articulations; leaves opposite, petiolate, broadly 

 ovate or suborbicular, acuminate, rounded or cordate with an open 

 sinus at the base, serrate (teeth about 14 on each side, mostly sharp, 

 sometimes rounded, often again 1-2-toothed), 3-nerved, finely and 

 sparingly appressed-villous and green on both surfaces, 5-6 cm. long, 

 3^ cm. wide; petiole 2-4 cm. long, villous; heads 40-45-fiowered, 

 pedicellate, in terminal trichotomous rather dense corymbs; involu- 

 cral scales 15-20, lance-linear, subequal, thin, acute, ciliate, dorsally 

 villous, 1-3 of the outermost shorter, narrow and bractlike; corollas 

 white, with slender proper tube somewhat exceeded by the cylindric- 

 campanulate throat; achenes slender, dark-brown to almost black, 

 upwardly hispid on the angles. — Nov. Gen. et Spec. iv. 122 (1820); 

 DC. Prod. v. 165 (1836). 



