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paullo decrescentibus in costis obscure subremoteque papillosis; 
pappi setis ca. 40 stramineo-albidis 5.5 mm. longis.— CoLomMBIA: 
Las Nubes near Santa Marta, alt. 1372 m., 7 Feb., expedition of 1898- 
09, H. H. Smith, no. 660 (Type Gr.) 
A species which appears very clearly distinct in habit and many 
technical characters from any previously attributed to Colombia. 
Said to be common in thickets near streams, alt. 1220-1830 m. 
E. conyzowes Mill. Dict. ed. 8, no. 14 (1768). Although ‘this 
species is by Hooker f. & Jackson, Ind. Kew. i. 916 (1893), referred to 
Vernonia arborescens (L.) Sw., it is entirely clear from Miller’s de- 
scription stating that the leaves were 3-nerved and hastate in form, as 
well as by his reference to the “ Conyza fruticosa, folio hastato, flore 
pallide purpureo ” of Sloane’s Cat. Jam, 124, that the plant he had in 
mind was certainly not Vernonia arborescens (L.) Sw., which has 
lance-oblong essentially entire pinnately veined leaves. Both from 
Miller’s description and from his direct reference to Sloane, who in his 
turn cites Plukenet’s plate 177, fig. 3, which forms the primary basis of 
the Linnaean E. odoratum, there is no reason to suppose that Miller’s 
E. conyzoides was other than E. odoratum L., as was the later EF. 
conyzoides of Vahl. 
E. (§ Eximbricata) cuencanum, spec. noy., herbaceum perenne 
decumbens gracile usque ad_ inflorescentiam glaberrimuns; caule 
tereti purpureo-brunneo laevissimo flexuoso ca. 3 dm. alto apice 
trichotomo-cymoso; foliis oppositis ovatis cordatis ad apicem obtusius- 
culum angustatis serrulatis firmiuscule membranaceis 2-2.5 em. longis 
1.2-1.6 cm. latis a basi 3(-5)-nerviis in siccatione fuscescentibus; 
petiolo gracillimo 8-10 mm. longo; inflorescentiae ramis pedunculisque 
cum glandulis atropurpureis stipitatis ate aliter glabris; capitulis 
paucis laxissime cymosis ca. 7 mm. altis 3-4 mm. diametro 16=19- 
floris; involucri anguste tein paalitt ane lanceolato-linearibus 
¢a. 18 ca. 5 mm. longis acutis vel paullo erosis non ciliatis dorso 2- 
costatis 3-nerviis cum glandulis paucis stipitatis munitis; receptaculo 
parvo plano glabro; corollis ut videtur albis 3.5 mm. longis in limbo 
entato extrorsum paullo villosulis, tubo proprio 1.7 mm. longo 
fauces cylindricas mediocriter ampliatas aequante; achaeniis pallide 
runneis glaberrimis 3 mm. longis basi callosis apice cum disco coro- 
natis; pappi setis ca. 14, 3.5 mm. longis fragilibus caducis basi brevis- 
sime connatis— Ecuapor: Cuenca, Sallé, communicated to the 
herbarium at the Kew — by Mr. W. W. Saunders, Oct. baie 
(ryPE K., trac. Gr. 
A Species with the habit of E. gracile HBK., E. caducisetum DC., aul 
