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times with a slight acumination at the insertion. .20. E. corymbosum. 
1. E. bullatum Klatt. Grayish-green shrub 4 dm. or more in 
height, with erect or ascending leafy branches; leaves opposite, small 
(1-2 em. long), ovate, subsessile by a cordate base, nearly or quite 
entire, thick, furrowed, warty, finely puberulent to glabrate and lucid 
above, gray-velvety beneath, commonly deflexed at maturity, their — 
margins revolute; heads cylindric, erect, in small crowded compoun 
cymes; scales closely appressed, obtuse, mucronulate, often brown- 
tipped; corollas white (Rusby & Pennell).— Klatt in Engl. Bot. 
Jahrb. viii. 34 (1887). E. seabrum HBK. Nov. Gen. et Spee. iv. 119 
(1820), not. L. f. E.-Kunthianum Sch. Bip. ex Hieron. in Engl. Bot. 
Jahrb. xxviii. 568 (1901).— A highly characteristic species of restricted 
range. 
CUNDINAMARCA: in small open woods near Facatativd, alt. 2600 m., Leh- 
mann, no. 2544 (fragm. and sk. Gr.); on high plains of Bogot4 near Santa Fé, 
Humboldt & Bonpland, ace. to Hieronymus, 1. c. (as E. Kunthianum); Mont- 
serrate near Bogota, Holton, no. 315 (K., N. Y.); dry shrubby slope above 
Bogoté, Pennell, no. 2093 (Gr.); dry cafion above Bogoté, alt. 2600-2700 m., 
Pennell, no. 2137 (Gr.); dry open hillsides southwest of Sibate, alt. 2700-2800 
m., Pennell, no. 2393 (Gr.). 
2. E. pellium Klatt. Glabrous and somewhat sticky shrub 9-15 
dm. high with round smooth grayish-brown ascending very leafy 
branches; leaves (often nigrescent in drying) opposite, lanceolate, ser- 
rate, attenuate, often conduplicate and faleate, cuneate at base to a 
short petiole, paler beneath, usually 3-nerved from somewhat above the 
base after 1-3 pairs of more obscure lateral veins have left the midrib; 
involucre ovoid in bud, at maturity campanulate, 5-7 mm. thick; 
florets 45-75.— Ann. k. k. Naturh. Hofmus. Wien, ix. 357 (1894). 
Macpatena. Santa Marta, Purdie (K., Gr.); Onaca, alt. 762 m., H. H. 
Smith, no. 616 (Gr., N. Y., Mo.). 
[Western Venezuela.] 
