286 ROBINSON. 
mostly obtuse or rounded tip, serrate to undulate or subentire, 4-6 cm. 
long, 2-3 cm. wide, 3-nerved from above the base; this cuneately 
decurrent on the petiole; heads about 5-flowered, slender, shortly 
pedicelled in open forking cymose panicles; involucral scales 11-16, 
stramineous and subscarious, very unequal, rather loosely imbricated, 
acute; corollas pale yellowish (Smith); achenes pubescent.— Noy. 
Gen. et. Spec. iv. 106, t. 340 (1820); Klatt in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. viii. 
34 (1887); Heering, Mém. Soc. neuchat, Sci. Nat. v. 419 (1913). 
E. iresinoides, var. a. villosum Steetz in Seem. Bot. Herald, 145 (1854); 
Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 573 (1901). E.. celosioides Willd. 
ex Steetz, 1. c. (invalid name, needlessly published). E. celtidifolium 
Klatt, |. c., not Lam. 
Macpaena: Las Nubes and Onaca, alt. about 600 m., H. H. Smith, no. 
503 (Gr., U. 8.); lower hills between Rio Frio and S. Andres de la Sierra, alt. 
about 200 m., Pittier, no. 1716 (U.S 
ToLIMA: a the base of the Andon is near Ibagué, Humboldt & Bonpland. 
Hua: east of Neiva, Rusby & Pennell, no. 1048 (N. Y.); Patico, Lehmann, 
no. 4768 (N. Y.). 
LE: among shrubs on'savannahs about Tocota, alt. 1600 m., Leh- 
ae no. 3430 (Gr.); on stony sterile soil oe the Rio Dagua, Lehmann, 
3813 (Gr.); La Paila, Holton, no. 320 (Gr 
nv enez., Margarita, St. Vincent, Martini — eee Said by Hemsl. 
‘Biol. Se. -Am. Bot. ii. 96 (1881) to extend auntie ard to Peru.] 
Var. a. villosum Steetz, |. c. Copiously pubescent; leaves softly 
~ and conspicuously tomentose beneath.— Synon. and distrib. as above. 
Var. 8. glabrescens Steetz. |. c. Finely and often rather incon- 
spicuously pubescent. 
Macpatena: on rocky hills by the seashore near Plaza Brava, H. H. Smith, 
no. 607 (Gr.). 
{[Panama, Venez., Trinidad.] 
Poorly marked and of merely formal value. 
The flowers of this species are sometimes reported on field-labels 
as yellow. Since, however, really yellow flowers are decidedly rare 
in the Eupatorieae it is not unlikely that they are here nearly or quite 
white and that the i impression of yellow color arises from the stramine- 
ous scales, which in this species are considerably more conspicuous 
than the minute and almost included florets. : 
26. E. salicinum Lam. Shrub; branches somewhat angular, 
puberulent when young; leaves opposite, subsessile, oblong-lanceolate, 
