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leafy-bracted panicles composed of small corymbosely disposed 
cymes; involucre about 7 mm. long; scales (1—)3-nerved, white, with 
acutish greenish tips, essentially glabrous.— Prod. v. 148 (1836). 
Osmia leptocephala (DC.) Sch. Bip. Pollichia, xxii—xxiv. 253 (1866). 
Et Vaute: Cuesta de Tocota, Cordillera Occidental, alt. 1500-1900 m.,. 
Pittier, no. 735 (Gr.). 
[Ecuador and Peru.] 
7. E. barranguillense Hieron. Shrub, 3 m. high, with sub- 
scandent stems and glabrate divaricate slightly furrowed branches; 
leaves opposite, rhombic-ovate, acuminate at the apex, usually cuneate 
at base, 6-7 cm. long, about half as wide, 3-nerved, very slightly 
Pubeséent on both surfaces, scarcely paler and punctate beneath; 
petiole 0.8-1.8 em. long; heads 6-8-flowered, very slender, in flattish- 
d corymbs; involucre-scales pale, greenish-white, 5-7-nerved, 
(for the §) loosely imbricated, not much darkened toward the acutish 
Somewhat ciliated tip, slightly puberulent on the back; florets whitish. 
— Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 564 (1901). 
ATLanTIco: in open bushy places around Barranguilla, flowering Nov.— 
Dec., Lehmann, no. 7953 (Berl., fragm. and phot. Gr.) 
ance-ovate, opposite, petiolate, entire or very sparingly and 
remotely small-toothed, caudate-acuminate, often falcate, 3-nerved, 
rounded or shortly pointed at base, sparingly hirtellous above, more- 
2 less pubescent on the veins beneath; branches divaricate; heads. 
cylindric, 1 cm. long, 4-5 mm., in diameter; involucral scales in 
about 4 ranks, 3-nerved, rounded at the closely appressed and darkened 
hd pedicels mostly curved or hooked, 1-1.5 em. long; corollas lilac-. 
=p (Lehmann),— Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxii. 742 (1897). 
E conyzordes, var. pauciflorum Hieron. |. c. xix. 45 (1894), not Bak. 
‘ Pulchelluem Klatt in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. viii. 35 (1887), not HBK. 
* “uendamense Hieron. 1. c. xxix. 6 (1900). E. elongatum Willd.. 
