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(). E. GLUTINOSUM Lam. Shrub or small tree 2-3 m. high; 

 branches terete, striate-angulate, purple, glandular-pubescent, verni- 

 cose and very sticky; leaves opposite, petiolate, lanceolate, gradually 

 narrowed from near the cordate base to the attenuate tip, 7-12 cm. 

 long, 2-3 cm. wide, thickish, glabrous and lucid but deeply bullate 

 and rugulose above, white-velvety beneath; petiole 1-1.8 cm. long; 

 corymbs terminal, scarcely exceeding the leaves, manj'-headed but 

 not very crowded; pedicels mostly 1-1.5 cjn. long, purple, glandular- 

 puberulent, viscid, flexuous; heads 1 cm. high and equally thick, 

 about 30-fiowered; involucre campanulate, 5 mm. high; scales about 

 22, moderately nnequal but rather loosely imbricated (transitional 

 between § Sithimhricata and § Eximbricata), the outer ovate, the inter- 

 mediate lanceolate, acute or acuminate, dorsally convex, glandular- 

 puberulent, the innermost linear; corollas purple, smooth, 5.5 mm. 

 long, very slightly and gradually enlarged from near the base to the 

 summit but without clearly marked throat; achenes glabrous; pap- 

 pus-bristles about 37, yellowish-white, slightly stiffish, finely hispidu- 

 lous.— Encyc. ii. 408 (1786); HBK. Nov. Gen. et Spec. iv. 131 (1820); 

 Benth. PI. Hartw. 198 (1845); Jameson, Syn. PI. Aeq. ii. 84 (1865); 

 Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 10 (1900), xxviii. 571 (1901).— 

 Pichincha: 1833, F. Hall (sk. and fragm. Gr.); Andes of Quito, 

 Jameson (Gr.). Pichincha or Leon: between Mul.aI6 and El 

 Tambillo, alt. 2745 m., Humboldt & Bonpland. Chimborazo: in 

 the upper region of thickets near Pangor and Huangopod, near Caja- 

 bamba, alt. 2900-3400 m., Lehnann, no. 5191 (N. Y.); in scattered 

 thickets on the western slopes of Chimborazo and Mt. Tiupullo, alt. 

 3000-3300 m., Lehnann, no. 7960, ace. to Hieron. 1. c. Prov. not 

 indicated: in the Achupoyas Mountains, Harhveg, no. 1094 (sk. and 

 fragm. Gr.). Vernacular names: malico, chusalonga. 



7. E. CACALioiDES HBK. A shrub with tetragonal dark-purple 

 viscid or vernicose branches; leaves opposite, petiolate, oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate at apex, almost equally pointed at base, 7-8 

 cm. long, 2-2.6 cm. wide, subcoriaceous, glabrous, finely reticulated 

 and dark-green above, canescent-tomentose beneath; petiole 1.5 cm. 

 long, smoothish, channelled above; corymbs terminal, dense, not 

 exceeding the leaves; branchlets and pedicels pubescent; heads 

 sessile and pedicelled, about 8 mm. high, about 20-flowered; corollas 

 tubular, glabrous, blue (Townsend); achenes dark, 3 mm. long, his- 

 pidulous-roughened on the ribs. — Nov. Gen. et Spec. iv. 130 (1820); 

 Jameson, Syn. PL Aeq. ii. 86 (1865). — Pichincha? "in Regno Qui- 

 tensi?" Humboldt & Bonpland (Par., phot. Gr.). Chimborazo: 



