338 ROBINSON. 



14. E. iREsiNOiDEs HBK. (see p. 285). 



Var. a. viLLOSUM Steetz. Leaves copiously villous to tomentose 

 beneath; scales of the involucre acute to acuminate. — Steetz in 

 Seem. Bot. Herald, 145 (1854).— Merida: Tovar, Moritz, no. 1722, 

 Fendler, nos. 624 (Gr.), 1946 (Gr.). Federal Dist.: Caracas and La 

 Guaira, Moritz, ace. to Steetz, 1. c. Aragua: Las Adjuntas, Eggers, 

 no. 13,346 (U. S.). Margarita Isl.: El Valle, Miller & Johiston, 

 no. 129 (Gr.); San Juan Mountain, Johnston, no. 95 (Gr.). 



Var. iS. GLABRESCENS Stcctz. Leaves sparingly villous or nearly 

 smooth; scales of the involucre acute or acuminate. — Steetz in Seem. 

 Bot. Herald, 145 (1854). — Federal Dist.: on mountains and in 

 mountain gorges, in moist shady places among Agaves, La Guaira, 

 Otto, no. 383 (Gr.); also Moritz, ace. to Steetz, 1. c. Carabobo: 

 Puerto Cabello, Curran & Haman, no. 1153 (Gr.). 



Var. 7. BREViFLORUM Hieron. Stems whitish-tomentellous; leaves 

 deltoid-ovate, conspicuously and cuneately decurrent upon the 

 petioles; heads slightly smaller; involucre about 4 mm. long, the 

 scales broader, the inner and middle obtuse, the outermost acutish. — 

 Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 573 (1901), as hreviflora. — Merida: 

 near Tovar, Fendlcr, nos. 623 (Gr.), 1916 (Gr.). Federal Dist.: 

 Caracas, Birschel. The type of this well marked variety was a plant 

 cultivated in the Royal Garden at Berlin, about 1843 (phot. Gr.). 



15. E. Wageneri Hieron. Doubtfully shrubby; branches slightly 

 sulcate-angled or subterete, velvety- ; internodes as much as 4.5 cm. 

 long; leaves opposite, petiolate, broadly deltoid-ovate, shortly acumi- 

 nate to an acutish or obtusish point, entire or undulate, cuneate and 

 decurrent on the petiole, membranaceous, glandular-puborulent 

 above, densely glandular-pubescent beneath, 3-ner\ed well above 

 the base, as much as 4.5 cm. long and 3 cm. wide; panicle terminal; 

 heads 5-flowered, cymosely glomerate, sessile or very shortly pedi- 

 celled; involucre turbinate-cylindric; scales about 12, scarious, 

 dark-stramineous, ciliolate toward the obtusish but spinulose-mucron- 

 ate tip; the inner about 4 mm. long, the outer gradually shorter;;, 

 corolla (in dried state) yellowish, 2.5 nun. long, the proper tube 

 scarcely more than 0.75 mm. long, the throat funnol-formed, 1.25 mm. 

 long; st^le-branches scarcely thickened; pappus-bristles yellowish- 

 white, connate into an annulus at the base; achenes 1.5 nun. long, 

 the concolorous ribs roughened, the faces scabrid-pilose. — Hieron. 

 in Ivngl. Bot. Jahrb. xl. 375 (1908). — Venezuela: without locality, 

 Wagcncr, no. 178, aec. to Hieron. I. c. Not seen by the writer, the 

 description compiled. 



