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the extensive herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. He ~ 
has furthermore brought to the attention of the writer a well marked 
and highly interesting novelty from Jamaica, E. hammatocladum, and 
has consented to join in its publication. Mr. W. R. Maxon of the ~ 
United States National Museum has sent to the Gray Herbarium for _ 
study many Eupatorieae collected by himself in Panama, by Prof. H. — 
Pittier in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela, and by 
Bros. Apollinaire & Arthur in the neighborhood of Bogoté. Mr. T.5. 
Brandegee has sent many Eupatoriums collected by Dr. C. A. Purpus, 
chiefly from Vera Cruz and vicinity. Prof. C. F. Millspaugh of the 
Field Museum has brought to the writer’s attention and lent for study ~ 
a small but interesting collection made by Dr. Arthur Schott m 
Colombia just south of the Panama boundary. Miss Mary A. Day, — 2 
librarian of the Gray Herbarium, has assisted in the bibliography and 
proof-reading, and in tracing many minor geographic localities of + 
which the correct placing has involved much discriminating search In 
maps, atlases, and works of travel of very different periods. eae 
Perey Wilson has most kindly contributed a detailed transcription 
of the field data accompanying the Eupatoriums and Mikanias of the 
H. H. Smith collection from the region of Santa Marta. To all these 3 
persons the writer wishes here to express his thanks and cordial appr 
ciation of their valued aid. a 



Eupatorium (§ Eximbricata) Apollinairei, spec. nov., ut videtur 
herbaceum vel mollissime lignescens sordideque glanduloso-tomento 
sum; caule tereti medulloso valde flexuoso fortasse plus minusvé — 
scandente; ramis oppositis patentibus; foliis oppositis late ovatis — 
obtuse acuminatis crenatis basi sinu angusto profundo cordatis 4 bast 
-5-9-nervatis supra subglabris subtus pallidioribus praecipue 12 ner 
vis venisque glanduloso-tomentulosis 7-13 cm. longis aequilatis; pee : 
lis subteretibus densissime glanduloso-tomentosis 3.5-7 cm. longis; 
corymbis terminalibus planiusculis pluricapitulatis; capitulis 7 om 
altis ca. 58-floris graciliter pedicillatis; involucri campanulati squamis ie 
ca. 24 subaequalibus lineari-lanceolatis longissime attenuatis dors? Bh: 
pubescentibus 3-nerviis subherbaceis viridibus; corollis albis 5 27 — 
longis, faucibus cylindricis 2.5 mm. longis, tubo proprio gracillimo e 
2.5 mm. longo, limbi dentibus 5 patentibus dorso longiuscule hispidis; 
achaeniis nigris 5-angulatis deorsum decrescentibus basi aloe 
costis patenter hispidulis (pilis non glandulosis); pappi setls basi 
albis tenuiter capillaribus vix scabratis corollam subaequantibu - : 
in cupulam coroniformem connatis; styli ramis filiformibus; anthers 

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