334 ROBINSON. 



Hieron. 1. c. Without locality: Lansherg, ace. to Hieron. 1. c. 

 Not seen by the WT-iter. The description compiled. 



6. E. MERiDENSE Robinson. Herbaceous or somewhat shrubby 

 perennial: stem erect, closely covered vAth short tawny wool of very 

 fine matted hairs; internodes 3-6 cm. long; leaves opposite, lanceo- 

 late, attenuate-acuminate to each end, crenulate or subentire, firm- 

 ish in texture, 4-6 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide, bullate and puberulent 

 above, tawny-tomentose on the 3 nerves and prominently reticulated 

 veins beneath; corymb much rounded, compound, 1 dm. in diameter; 

 heads numerous, pedicelled, about 10-flowered, 9 mm. high, 3.5 mm. 

 in diameter; involucre slender-cylindric, 4-5-seriate; scales oblong, 

 rounded or subtruncate at the ciliolate brownish summit; corollas 

 presumably purple; achenes very slender, 3.2 mm. long or more, 

 papillose on the ribs. — E. scabrum Sch. Bip. ex Hieron. in Engl. Bot. 

 Jahrb. xxviii. 569 (1901), not L. f. — Merida: Merida, Moritz, no. 

 1365 (Gr.). 



7. E. odoratumL. (seep. 280). Merida: near Tovar, alt. 915 m., 

 Fendler, no. 636 (Gr.), same locahtv, alt. 610 m., FcndJcr, no. 1949 

 (Gr.). 



Var. PAUCiFLORiiM Hieron. (see p. 281). Miranda: La Venta, 

 Wagener, ace. to Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 564 (1901). 

 State not indicated: in bushy places at "Guajaca rumbo," alt. 

 600 m., Wagener, no. 277, ace. to Hieron. 1. c. 



8. E. suBSCANDENS Hieron. (see p. 279). ^Merida: near Tovar, 

 alt. 700 m., Fendler, nos. 1950 (Gr.) and 1950/3 (Gr.). 



9. E. squalidum DC. Shrub 1-2 m. in height, much branched 

 aboA'e, densely pubescent; stems terete; branches ascending; leaves 

 opposite, ovate, short-petioled, subcoriaceous, 2-5 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. 

 wide, 3-nerved from above the base, somewhat prominently reticulate- 

 veiny beneath, puberulent above, slightly paler and more copiously 

 sordid-pubescent beneath as well as closely beset with orange glands 

 (appearing finally as a dark punctation); petiole 2-4 mm. long; 

 inflorescence a leafy panicle; heads short-pecHcelled, about 30-flowered, 

 8-10 mm. long, slender; involucre cylindric; scales firm, stramineous, 

 somewhat browned toward the summit, closely iml)ricated in about 6 

 series, regularly graduated, rounded or usually somewhat narrowed 

 to an obtuse apex, faintly 3-nerved, ciliolate; achenes slender, 3.5 mm. 

 long, smooth or nearly so on the almost black faces, ciliolate on the 

 light-colored ribs.— Prod. v. 142 (1830); Bak. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. 

 pt. 2, 281 t. 77 (1S76). 



[Var. typicum. Stem hirsute-villous, the hairs sprciuHiig; lea\-es 

 hirsute-villous beneath. — Coininon on ])lains in the interior of Brazil.] 



