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irregular size, the lowest about 4 cm. long by one-third as 
broad, the uppermost 10 cm. long by 6 cm. wide, sessile, oval- 
elliptical to obovate, some with an obscure blunt acumination, 
obsoletely crenate-dentate, thick, above harsh, lepidote and 
below densely ferruginous-tomentose ; panicle exceeding a deci- 
meter in breadth, scarcely so long, of few pedunculate, secund, 
Yungas, 1890 (247). 
Elephantopus angustifolius, Sw. Prod. 115. Yungas, 1890 ( 344).= 
Rusby 1591. 
Elephantopus spicatus, B. Juss. in Aubl. PL Guian. 808. Yungas, 
1890 (357).=Rusby 1109. 
Elephantopus tomentosus, L., Sp. Pl. 814. Yungas, 1890 (497). 
Adenostemma viscosum, Forst. var. Brasilianum, Benth. Fl. Austr. 
їп. 463. Yungas, 1890 (294). 
Ageratum conyzoides, L. Sp. Pl. 839. Yungas, 1890 (235 and 407). 
Stevia compacta, Benth. Pl. Hartw. 191 (?) Vic. La Paz, 10,000 ft., 
1880 (86). = Rusby 1613. This specimen does not agree at 
all with Bentham’s description “ pappo minuto coronoformi,” 
for the pappus is long, setose and purple. But it agrees with 
specimens so labelled in Herb. Columb. Coll., one of them 
“Matthews, Int. Peru,” which is apparently that cited by Bent- 
ham in his description. 
Stevia Boliviensis, Sch. Bip. Bull. Soc. Bot. France xii. 81, name 
о tem tall, stout, hollow, reddish, striate, below glabrous, 
hispidulous-pubescent upward, above bearing few, distant, 
slender, widely spreading branches in pairs; lower leaves early 
drying yellowish or brownish, prominently veined, the lowest 
pair considerably stronger, ve sparsely hispid-pubescent, 
underneath less harsh; heads glomerate-crowded at the ends of 
