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3. E. Moritzianum Sch. Bip. Glabrous and slightly viscid 
leafy-branched shrub, turning dark in drying and in all respects very 
like the preceding species; heads smaller, about 20-flowered; involucre 
about 3 mm. thick, cylindric, with a shortly pointed base.— Sch. Bip. 
ex Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 565 (1901). 
Huma: Eastern Cordillera near Neiva, Rusby & Pennell, no. 1056 (N. Y.). 
TMENT (EL VALLE oR CALpaS?) NOT INDICATED: in Altamira above 
Tolima, alt. 800-1500 m., Lehmann, no. 8725 (N. Y.). 
[Western Venezuela.] 
Likely to prove a mere variety of the preceding, but convincing 
intermediates not as yet discovered. 
4. E. laevigatum Lam. Viscid shrub, 1-3 m. high, glabrous 
throughout ; branches and pedicels angled; leaves light green, oppo- 
site, rhombic-ovate to ovate-oblong, thickish, serrate, 3-ribbed from 
the entire mostly cuneate base, transversely veined between the ribs; 
heads (sessile to rather long-pedicelled) numerous, in dense moderately 
convex corymbs; flowers dull white Eneye. ii. 408 (1786); HBK. 
Noy. Gen. et Spec. iv. 117 (1820); Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 
567 (1901). E. conyzoides Klatt in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. viii. 34 (1887), 
not Mill. nor Vahl. 
: Cauca: in bushy places on mountain meadows about La Teta and Buenos 
Aires, Lehmann, no. 5188, acc. to Hieron. |. ¢.; among shrubs on savannahs, 
= 1600 m., Tocota, Lehmann, no. 3440 (Gr.); Cordillera Occidental, in 
clayey soil, alt. 1600 m., Langlassé, no. 70 (Gr.). 
: “sas about La Plata, alt. 1000-1400 m., Lehmann, no. 8447, acc to Hieron. 
: anes in coffee-plantation, ‘La Trinidad,” Libano, alt. 1000-1200 m., 
ennell, no. 3309 (Gr.) y 
ohh idely distributed from Mexico to Argentina, characteristic in 
it and fairly constant. 
E. chrysostictum Robinson. Subglabrous, erect perennial herb 
faces likely shrub; branches smooth, terete; leaves opposite, ovate, 
Naa rounded at base, obscurely and remotely mucronu- 
Rae awed on the revolute margin, 1 dm. long, half as broad, 
ar aheg glabrous on both surfaces, shining above, dull and densely 
‘beneath, the dots being orange and translucent; petiole 1-1.5 
stramin ; heads cylindric, about 26-flowered, 7 mm. in diameter; scales 
rea. rounded and mucronulate at the closely appressed tip; 
*S interred to be white.— Proc. Am. Acad. liv. 240 (1918). 
Macpatea: Santa Marta, H. H. Smith, no. 660 (Gr., Mo.). 
