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involucre campaiuihite; scales uhout 17, lanceolate, acute, subequal, 

 dusky-purple, loosely imbricated, a few of the outermost shorter; 

 corollas inferred to be violet, smooth, enlarj^ed in the throat; achenes 

 hispid on the angles; pappus-bristles dusky, hispid. — Nov. Gen. et 

 Spec. iv. 129 (1820); Jameson, 1. c. 88.— Inferred (by Kunth) to 

 have been collected in Ecuador ("crescit in Regno Quitensi?")> 

 Humboldt & BonpUmd (Par., phot. Gr.)- 



This species, known to the writer only from the type-material at 

 Paris, is suspiciously close to the Colombian plant subsequently 

 described by Bentham, PI. Hartw. 200 (1845), as E. latipes, which, 

 however, has smaller leaves (3-7 cm. long) and broad petioles only 

 3-5 mm. in length. It is probable that the latter species will have 

 to be reduced, and it seems not improbable that the original material 

 of E. viscosum came not from Ecuador but from the mountains around 

 Bogota, the source of many of Humboldt & Bonpland's specimens. 



36. E. GL.\NDULIFERUM Hieron. Branching undershrub 1-1.5 

 m. high; stems terete, often purplish-brown, densely clothed with 

 widely spreading very unequal articulated and for the most part 

 gland-tipped hairs; leaves opposite, sessile, ovate, acuminate, rounded 

 at the slightly clasping base, serrate, 5-6 cm. long, about half as wide, 

 membranaceous, green and slightly glandular-puberulent abo\-e, 

 paler and especially on the nerves copiously pubescent beneath; 

 3-nerved from the base; corymbs terminal, trichotomous, many- 

 headed, rather loose; pedicels filiform, densely glandular-pubescent, 

 8-18 mm. long; heads about 40-flowered, 8-9 mm. high; involucre 

 campanulate, the scales about 14, subequal, linear, acute, mostly 

 2-costulate; corollas white, glabrous, 4 mm. long; proper tube slender, 

 1-.5 mm. long; throat cylindrical, 2.5 mm. long; achenes 2.5 mm. long, 

 brownish-black, upwardly hispidulous on the angles, slightly con- 

 tracted just below a pale pappus-bearing cuplike annulus or disk 

 at the summit. — Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 13 (1900). — 

 Chimborazo: at the edge of woods on Mt. Chimborazo, Sodiro, no. 

 6/7a (Berl., fragm. Gr.). 



37. E. SOLIDAGINOIDES HBK. (see p. 310); Jameson, Syn. PI. Acq. 

 ii. 83 (1865). E. filicaule Sch. Bip. in Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxi. 384 

 (1886); Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad, xxxviii. 213 (1902). Ophryo- 

 sporus solidaginoides (HBK.) Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 4 

 (1900). — Chimborazo: between Ticsan and Alausi, Humboldt & 

 Bmipland (Par., phot, and trac. Gr.). Galapagos Ids.: Iguana 

 Cove, Albemarle Id., Snodgrass & Heller, no. 29 (Gr.). 



Var. typicum. Leaves at maturity glabrous or nearly so above, 



