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throat about half as long; achenes glabrous, 2.5 mm. long.— Proc. 
Am. Acad. liv. 237 (1918). 
“New GRENADA”: without more exact locality, Triana, no. 1191 (K., 
phot. Gr.). 
31. E. Vargasianum DC. Shrub with terete ascending branches 
clothed with dense sordid tomentum of purplish-brown jointed hairs; 
leaves opposite, ovate-oblong, acute to acuminate, crenate-serrate, 
shallowly cordate or more often rounded at base, 7-20 cm. long, 5-12 
em. wide, above closely beset with somewhat swollen persistent bases 
of small hairs and with subsessile glands, below gray-tomentose, 3- 
nerved from a point decidedly above the base (2-4 pairs of minor 
veins pinnately arranged between the actual base and the origin 
of the main lateral nerves); petiole 1.4-3.7 em. long, thick, densely 
tomentose; corymbs terminal, dense, trichotomous, many-headed; 
heads about 10-flowered, on short thick hirsute pedicels; scales about 
-ranked, stramineous, more or less stained with claret color, oblong- 
lanceolate, thin, subscarious, 3—5-nerved, merely acutish to subatten- 
uate, smooth on the back; achenes grayish or yellowish-brown, 
studded with sessile glands.— Prod. v. 155 (1836); Klatt in Engl. 
Bot. Jahrb. viii. 36 (1887); Heering, Mém. Soc. neuchat. Sci. Nat. v. 
420 (1913). 
Cauca: in open woods on mountain slopes near Popayan, Lehmann, no. 
938, ace. to Klatt, 1. ec. 
_ Aytioquta: in central Andes on a hill above America near Medellin, alt. 
1700 m., Mayor, no. 392, ace. to Heering, 1. c. 
[Venezuela. ] 
No material from Colombia has been seen by the writer. 
ies, however, appears to be frequent and somewhat widely dis- 
tributed in Venezuela, from Caracas to Tovar. : 
32. E. smilacinum HBK. Twining herb with furrowed and 
Tibbed stem and hispid-pubescent widely spreading almost divaricate 
; branches; leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, entire at the acute to 
acuminate apex and abruptly narrowed to a rounded base, elsewhere 
Coarsely crenate-serrate, 3-nerved from the base, membranaceous, 
hispidulous on the nerves and veins above, hispid beneath, about 
5 cm. long, 2-2.4 em. wide; heads sessile in spherical glomerules, 
| these disposed in a divaricately branched corymb or panicle; involu- 
saps short-cylindric; scales oblong, green, striate, ciliated — Nov. Gen. 
