350 ROBINSON. 



Cordillera de Riobamba, ace. to Jameson, 1. c. Loja: between 

 Utuana and Colaisaca, alt. 2540-2640 m., C. H. T. Toicnsend, no. 995 

 (U. S.). Pressed leaves have the odor of licorice (Townsend). 



8. E. BUDDLEAEFOLiuiM Benth. Shrub; branches purplish-brown, 

 smooth, shining, vernicose; internodes about 5 cm. long, somewhat 

 compressed-tetragonal, with concave slightly costulate surfaces; 

 leaves opposite, petiolate, lance-oblong, serrulate-denticulate from 

 the cuneate base to the gradually acuminate apex (teeth very numer- 

 ous, 0.4-0.8 mm. high, 1.5-2.3 mm. broad), green, glabrous, and lucid 

 abo^'e, strongly 1-costate and pinnately many-veined (veins 30-40 

 on each side, leaving the midrib at an angle of 65°-87°), reticulated 

 beneath, the surface gray-tomentose, the veins nearly smooth, slightly 

 coriaceous, 1-1.5 dm. long, 2-3.2 cm. wide; petiole 1-1.8 cm. long; 

 corymb terminal, trichotomous, surpassed by the leaves, glabrous but 

 viscid; heads 14-15-flowered, sessile or nearly so, 11 mm. long, 5 mm. 

 in diameter; involucre subcylindric-campanulate, about 5-seriate; 

 scales about 25, stramineous, long-ciliate, otherwise subglabrous, 

 viscid, the outer ovate to ovate-lanceolate, often purple-tipped, the 

 innermost linear, readily deciduous; corollas presumably purple, 

 4.8 mm. long, glabrous, the tube gradually enlarged from near the 

 base to the limb but without distinctly marked throat; achenes about 

 3 mm. long, sparingly hispid on the angles; pappus-bristles very 

 numerous (about 70) and finely capillary, yellowish-white.— PI. 

 Hartw. 135 (1844); Jameson, Syn. PI. Acq. ii. 81 (1865). Incorrectly 

 reduced to E. arboreiim by Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxLx. 10 (1900). 

 — Loja: in mountains, Hartircg, no. 757 (K., sk. Gr.). Prov. not 

 indicated: Quitensian Andes, 1855, Couihnuy (Gr.). [Peru, Prov. 

 of Chachapoyas, Mat heirs.] Compared by Bentham to E. salicinuni 

 Lam., but not closely related. E. salicinum has tomentose branches 

 and subsessile nearly entire leaves of different texture and venation, 

 the lateral veins being only 6-8 on each side and leaving the mitlrib 

 at an angle of only about 45°. 



9. E. PERSicipoLiUM HBK. Erect shrub; branches hexagonal, 

 subglabrous, arcuate or flexuous; internodes 4-8 cm. long; leaves 

 opposite, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, attenuate-acuminate at the 

 apex, at base rounded in general contour but slightly cuneate at the 

 point of insertion on the petiole, denticulate or crenulate, subcoria- 

 ceous, glabrous and rugulose above, white-tomentose beneath, about 

 9 cm. long and 2.5-3 cm. wide; petiole about 1.5 cm. long; corymb 

 ternu'nal, exceeded by the Iravcs, rounded, trichotomous; heads about 

 25-flowered, mostly pedicelled though crowded ii\ the partial inflores- 



