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1. E. LEPTOCEPHALiJM DC. (scc p. 278). To this species the writer 

 would refer E. teqiicndavicnse, vars. glandiiJoso-'pvhescens and glabrala 

 Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 6 (1900). Examined in fragments 

 kindly supplied to the Gray Herbarium some years ago by the manage- 

 ment of the Royal Botanical Garden at Berlin, these varieties are 

 found to differ but slightly and in degree only, either from each other 

 or from authenticated material of E. Icptoccphalinn. On the other 

 hand they may be distinguished from the typical Colombian form of 

 E. tequendamense {= E. suhscandens Hieron.) in having more slender 

 fewer-flowered heads, straight pedicels, and leaves much more at- 

 tenuate at the base. To E. leptoccphahim the following Ecuadorian 

 material may be referred. Pichixcha: Quito, Jameson (Gr.); 

 Niebli, Sodiro, no. 6/26 (Berl., fragm. Gr.). Province not indicated: 

 Seemann (Gr.). 



2. E. ODORATUM L. (see p. 280). E.florilmndum HBK. Nov. Gen. 

 et Spec. iv. 118, t. 344 (1820); Jameson, Syn. PI. Aeq. ii. SO (1865). 

 E. conyzoides, var. florihundmn (HBK.) Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 

 xxix. 5 (1900), as florihimda. — Loja: between Loja and the Rio 

 Catamayo, Humboldt & Bonpiland, no. 3426 (Par., phot. Gr.); in 

 mountains, ace. to Jameson, 1. c. Chimborazo: in the Valley of 

 Pallatanga, alt. 1600 m., Sodiro, no. 6/27, ace. to Hieronymus, 1. c. 



3. E. LAEVIGATUM Lam. (see p. 273) ; Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jalu'b. 

 xxix. 5 (1900). — Pichincha: in temperate region, near Niebli, alt. 

 1400-2000 m., Sodiro, no. 6/25, ace. to Hieronymus, 1. c. 



4. E. Eggersii HiercMi. Climbing smoothish shrub with round 

 widely spreading branches; leaves opposite, elliptical-ovate, obtusish 

 or shortly acuminate to an obtuse point, rounded at base, glabrous, 

 3-4.5 cm. long, 2.4-2.8 cm. wide, conspicuously 3-nerved, the nerves 

 prominent beneath, depressed in furrows above; panicles leafy-bracted, 

 the opposite spreading branches capituliferous chiefly toward their 

 ends; heads about 10-flowered, subsessile in ovoid to subglobose 

 glomerules; involucral scales stramineous, about 4-seriate, ovate, 

 ciliate, narrowed to an obtuse hairy appressed tip, mostly with a 

 broadish median nerve closely flanked by two narrow lateral ones; 

 corollas glabrous, the tube about 3 mm. long, scarcely enlarged into a 

 throat about 2 mm. long; achenes glabrous, blackish, 5(-7)-costate, 

 about 3 mm. long; pappus-bristles stiffish, yellowish-white. — Hieron. 

 in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 566 (1901). — jNIanabi: near the Hacienda 

 El Recreo, Eggcrs, no. 15,414 (Berl., phot, and fragm. Gr.), 



