EIPATOHH'MS OF ECTADOH. ^r)5 



herb, reachinp; 2 m. in height; stem terete, sonlid-puherulent; hairs 

 short, spreading, flexuous, attenuate; internodes 4-(J(-8) cm. long; 

 leaves opposite, petiolate, narrowly ovate, gradually narrowed to an 

 acutish or acuminate apex, rounded at the base, bluntly serrate- 

 dentate, membranaceous, 3-nerved from the base, puberulent on 

 the nerves, fuscous-brown or dark-olivaceous in drying, dull, 4-6 cm. 

 long, about half as wide; petiole 8-11 mm. long; corymbs trichoto- 

 mous, leafy-bracted at base; heads 30-70-fiowered (Hieronymus), 

 9 nmi. high, pedicellate; involucral scales about 25, somewhat gradu- 

 ated, about 3-seriate, lance-linear, mostly 2-ribbed, the ribs united 

 at base into a conspicuous elongated callosity; corollas reddish-lilac 

 (Lehmann), 4.5 mm. long, slender, slightly and gradually enlarged 

 upward, hispidulous near the limb; achenes smooth, sliining, dark- 

 brown, 2 mm. long. — Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 9 (1900). — 

 Azu.\y: in dense thickets, near Chagal and Yerbas-buenas, on the 

 slopes of the western Andes, near Cuenca, alt. 2000-2700 m., Lehnann, 

 nos. 4884 (Berl., fragm. Gr.) and 7984 (Berl., phot. Gr.). Chimborazo: 

 in the subandean region, Sodiro, no. 6/7b, ace. to Hieron. 1. c. [Colom- 

 bia, ace. to Heering.] 



25. E. CHIMBORAZENSE Hieron. Presumed to be suffruticose and 

 climbing; the round stems glandular-pubescent; internodes 4-5 cm. 

 long; leaves opposite, slender-petioled, ovate-lanceolate, caudate- 

 attenuate, rounded at base, serrulate, firm-membranaceous or sub- 

 chartaceous, above puberulent, in age rugose and bullate, below 

 sordid- or olivaceous-pubescent and copiously co^■ered with sessile 

 glands, subtriplinerved then pinnate-veined and prominently reticu- 

 lated, 7-9 cm. long, 2.4-3 cm. wide; petiole 1.3-2 cm. long; corymb 

 dense, terminal, about 6 cm. in diameter; heads subsessile or on short 

 thick and densely pubescent pedicels, 25-40-flowered, about 9 mm. 

 long; involucre campanulate; scales graduated, about 4-seriate, nar- 

 rowed to an acute tip, the outer ovate, dorsally crisped-puberulent, 

 the intermediate and inner gradually longer, narrower, and smoother, 

 mostly 3-nerved; corollas (in dried material showing 5 dark nerves) 

 5 mm. long, glabrous, slenderly tubular, slightly and gradually en- 

 larged upward; achenes 2.5 mm. long, glabrous; pappus-bristles 

 yellowish-white, minutely scabrid. — Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 

 7 (1900). — Chimborazo: on slopes of Mt. Chimborazo, Sodiro, no. 

 6/15 (Berl., phot, and fragm. Gr.). 



26. E. viTALBAE DC. (see p. 299); Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 

 xxix. 11 (1900). E. ecuadorac Klatt, Ann. k. k. Naturh. Hofmus. 

 Wien, ix. 356 (1894). — Guayas: in dense woods near Xaranjal, 



