5T 
Species near Æ. Latridea and E. Guanatense. Also collected in 
Bolivia by Bridges. 
EUPATORIUM CONNIVENS Sp. n. 
hrubby, much branched, the branches strongly ascending, 
dark brown, striate, the branchlets erect, slender, green, few-angled, 
scabrellate-pubescent; leaves subsessile, 3-6 cm. long, 1—2.5 cm. 
broad, ovate to lance-ovate, with regularly tapering obtusish apex, 
base abruptly contracted into a very short petiole-like portion, and 
distantly and coarsely serrate margin, above scabrous, underneath 
prominently reticulate, and sparsely and harshly hairy on the 
veins, somewhat 3-ribbed; heads closely aggregated upon the 
vier ‘branchlets, either sessile or upon short peduncles eed = 
the summit, 1.5 cm. long; involucre 1 cm. long and 3-4 
bids cyli ndraceous, the scales in many series, the outer succes- 
sively shorter, closely appressed, obovate-spatulate with regularly 
rounded purple apex, nerved, the innermost linear-oblanceolate 
and obtuse; involucre very small, conical, about 15-flowered; 
akene 4.5 mm. long, black, with sharp w ite angles; pappus 6.5 
mm. long, scanty, unequal, tawny, imp serrate; corolla-tube 
6 mm. long, the lobes a little over 1 mm ong. 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (1114). 
Near £. paucidentatum Sch. Bip., but much more robust and 
with heads much longer. The same as Mandon's 248. Also col- 
lected by Bridges in Bolivia. 
EUPATORIUM VENOSISSIMUM sp. n. 
Tall and coarse, widely and laxly branching; stem sinuous, 
purple, finely angled, the branches similar, lighter, slender, bes 
long, margined, at the base, abruptly dilated and connate; bises 
5—12 cm. long, 2-5 cm. broad, ovate to lance-ovate, wi b- 
nd las Dey bee ee Sur regularly tapering acute apex 
and coarsely and sharply serrate margin, thin, pale, minutely 
Sebi and very sparsely ies both sides, 3-ribbed and promi- 
nently veiny both sides, especially so beneath, the veins whitish ; 
heads corymbed, the corymbs loosely branched, but the heads 
closely crowded on the ultimate branchlets, mostly short-peduncled, 
the peduncles pubescent; heads 3.5-4 mm. long, the involucre 
wei equalling the pappus, the wee about 8, loosely imbricated, 
-oblong, obtuse, pubescen dieu erved; receptacle 5-flow- 
dub akene ‘igh imm see) a rt, pubescent; lower third of 
corolla abruptly much ESEN strongly pubescent, the upper 
portion cylindraceous, yellowish, with very short erect lobes. 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (111 3). 
Near Æ. laeve. 
