366 ROBixsox. 



proper tube about 2 mm. in length, tlie funnel-formed throat sh'ghtly 

 longer; achenes blackish, hispidulous on the angles. — Hieron. in 

 Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xl. 3S7 (1908). — Pichixcha: in thickets at the base 

 of Mt. Pichincha, alt. 300 m., Sodiro, no. 3, ace. toHieron. 1. c. (whence 

 above char, is here compiled). 



48. E. RECREExsE Hieron. Herbaceous and probably perennial, 

 2-2.5 m. high; leaves opposite, petiolate, round-ovate, very closely 

 and obscurely crenate except at the acuminate and mucronate apex 

 and rounded base, membranaceous, puberulent on the nerves above 

 and over the entire lower surface, the largest 15 cm. long, 13.5 cm. 

 wide; petioles as much as 5 cm. long; heads 20-25-flowered, in dense 

 terminal cyme-like corymbs; pedicels 2-10 mm. long; involucre 

 narrowly campanulate, 4-5-seriate; scales 30-40, the upper part 

 lacerate-ciliate on the hyaline margin but otherwise smooth, the apex 

 provided \Anth a thin jobtuse appendage; corollas 3.5 mm. long; 

 achenes glabrous, dark-colored. — Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xl. 

 389 (1908). — Manabi: near Hacienda El Recreo, ron Eggcrs, no. 

 15,148, ace. to Hieronymus, 1. c, from whose original description the 

 above character is condensed. 



49. E. OBTUSISQUAMOSUM Hieron. Shrub with habit of E. macro- 

 phylhim and E. guayuhnse; stems subterete or somewhat angulate 

 or flattened, covered with closely matted tawny tomentum; inter- 

 nodes about 1 dm. long; leaves opposite, slender-petioled, round-ovate, 

 broadly cordate, obtusish or slightly acuminate, obscurely crenulate, 



.membranaceous, puberulent and green above, canescent-tomentose 

 beneath, 10-13 cm. long, as broad or slightly broader, 3-nerved some- 

 what above the base; petioles 2-5 cm. long; heads in a compact 

 terminal corymb, 28-33-flowered ; involucre campanulate, about 4- 

 seriate, essentially glabrous, the outer scales broadly ovate, 3-7- 

 costate, brownish-green, narrowly scarious-raargined, rounded at the 

 tip, the innermost linear and readily deciduous; receptacle iiemispheri- 

 cal, shortly pilose; corollas slenderly tubular, 5 mm. long, the throat 

 slightly and gradually enlarged, glabrous, the limb very short and 

 hispidulous; achenes 1.6 mm. long, dark-brown with pale ribs. — 

 Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 14 (1900). — Prov. xot indicated: 

 in moist subandean thickets, Sodiro, no. 6/20a (Berl., phot, and fragm. 

 Gr.) 



50. E. XEMOROSUM Klatt (see p. 327). From this species it has 

 been impossible to separate the Bolivian K. Rus})}i'> Britton, Bull. 

 Torr. Bot. Clul), xviii. 334 (1891). Furthermore, altliougli the writer 

 has had no opportunity to examine material of E. pfcropodum Hieron. 



