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perennial herb, glahrous up to the in florescence, this beset with short 

 dark stipitate tack-like capitate fi;lan(ls; stem terete, flexuous, very 

 smooth, purplish-brown; leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, cordate at 

 base, narrowed to an obtusish tip, firndy niend)ranaceous, 2-2.5 cm. 

 long, 1.2-1.() cm. wide, 3(-5)-nerved from the base; petiole slender, 

 8-12 mm. long; inflorescence a loose terminal trichotomous few-headed 

 cyme; heads l()-19-flowered, about 7 mm. high, 3-4 mm. in diameter; 

 involucre campanulate, the scales about 18, acute or a little erose, 

 mostly 2-costulate and 3-nerved, 5 mm. long, beset with a few stipi- 

 tate glands; corollas apparently white, 3.5 mm. long, the proper tube 

 1.7 mm. long, the throat cylindrical, moderately enlarged, the limb 

 sparingly short-villous; achenes 3 mm. long, pale brown, glabrous: 

 crowned by a disk, pappus-bristles about 14, caducous. — Azuay, 

 Cuenca, Salle (K., phot. Gr.). 



42. E. GLECHONOPHYLLUM Less. Perennial herb or slender under- 

 shrub; stem terete, flexuous, usually purplish, at first puberulent, at 

 length glabrate; hairs all very short, some spreading and gland-tipped, 

 others incurved and attenuate; branches opposite, curved-ascending; 

 leaves deltoid-ovate, slender-petioled, more or less caudate-acuminate 

 at the apex, rounded, subtruncate, or open-cordate at the base, thin- 

 membranaceous, serrate to more often rather coarsely crenate, vary- 

 ing greatly in size (1-7 cm. long, 0.8-5 cm. wide), nearly glabrous; 

 petiole 0.4-3 cm. long, pubescent; corymbs terminal, leafy-bracted 

 at base, mostly rather loose; heads about 30-flowered, slender- 

 pedicelled ; involucral scales narrowly lanceolate, obtuse to acuminate, 

 subequal, the outer dorsally pubescent; corollas white, with roseate 

 tinge, glabrous except near the slightly hispid limb; proper tube 

 slender, about equalling the distinctly enlarged cylindrical throat; 

 achenes about 2 mm. long, black or nearly so, hispidulous. — Linnaea, 

 vi. 105 (1831); Gay, Fl. Chil. iii. 474 (1847); Reiche, Fl. Chil. iii. 

 265 (1902), which see for synon. — Pichincha: Andes of Quito, 

 Jameson (Gr.), Couthouy (Gr.). [Chili, Peru.] E. Stenibergiamim 

 DC. to which some of the Ecuadorian material has at times been 

 referred is a doubtfully separable Peruvian species. 



43. E. AZANGAROENSE Sch. Bip. (scc p. 315); Hieron. in Engl. Bot. 

 Jahrb. xxix. 13 (1900).^ Prov. not indicated: in subandean thickets, 

 Sodiro, no. 6/3, Weddell's narrower-leaved forma a, ace. to Hieron. 

 1. c; in andean pastures, Sodiro, no. 6/5 (Berl., fragm. Gr.), the 

 broader-leaved forma /S, ace. to Hieron. 1. c. 



This species is scarcely distinguishable from the preceding but the 

 writer hesitates to reduce it to synonymy without study of authentic 

 material not at present accessible. 



