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an exserted network beneath; heads in compound 

 corymbs j. 



j. Leaves subchartaceous, subglabrous, ovate to 

 ovate-lanceolate, attenuate, rather obscurely 

 serrate (none in the least hastate); pedicels 

 usually 1-1.5 cm. long, mostly curved or hooked 



7. E. subscandens. 

 j. Leaves membranaceous, somewhat thicker, 

 rhombic- to deltoid-ovate, rather coarsely and 

 often somewhat hastately crenate-toothed, 

 densely and softly villous or even tomentosc be- 

 neath; pedicels usually 2-8 mm. long, mostly 



straight 8. E. odora turn. 



i. Leaves 2-5 cm. long; veins exserted and promi- 

 nently reticulated beneath; heads in a leafy 



panicle 9. E. squnlidum, v. subvelutinum. 



h. Scales lance-linear, acute; heads in a leafy-bracted 

 thjTsoid panicle; leaves small (2-4 cm. long), not 

 conspicuously reticulated beneath 



10. E. oxijlepis, V. cnracasanum. 

 Leaves cordate at base 11. E. xestolepis. 



1. E. PELLiUM Klatt (see p. 272). Venezuela, without precise 

 locality, Fnnck & Scklivi, no. 522 (Gr.). 



2. E. MoRiTZL\NUM Sell. Bip. (see p. 273). Merida: in subalpine 

 places, Merida, Moritz, no. 1366 (Gr.). 



3. E. laevigatum Lam. (see p. 273). Federal Dist. : Caracas, 

 Birschel (Gr., N. Y.). 



4. E. ivaefolium L. (see p. 275). Merida: Tovar, Fendler, 

 no. 1948 (Gr.). 



5. E. urticoides Sch. Bip. Nearly or quite herbaceous, 5 dm. 

 high: stems round, branched above, sparingly beset with spreading 

 jointed hairs; leaves opposite, rhombic-ovate, subchartaceous, 

 coarsely serrate-dentate (the teeth sometimes again toothed), 6 cm. 

 long, half as wide; panicles both terminal and from the upper axils, 

 the ultimate cymes 3-7-headed; pedicels 7-18 mm. long; heads 45- 

 60-flowered; involucre campanulate; scales 5-7-seriate, the inner 

 long and narrow, scarious and with 1 green nerve, the apex subher- 

 baceous, purplish and covered with orange glands, the outer scales 

 gradually shorter, broader, and 3-striate, with subtriangular herba- 

 ceous appendages; corollas purple, 4.5 mm. long, glabrous; achenes 

 (very immature) dark, the ribs stramineous and roughened. — Sch. 

 Bip. ex Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 568 (1901). — Merida: 

 in warm places on the Victoriana road of Tovar, near La Viscaina, 

 Moritz, no. 834, ace. to Hieron. 1. c. Federal Dist.: between La 

 Guaira and Desaguados, near the city of Caracas, Gollmer, ace. to 



