294 ROBINSON. 
at the tip, rounded at the base, firm-membranaceous or somewhat 
chartaceous, pinnately veined and finely reticulated, shallowly serrate 
(the teeth about 0.5 mm. high, 3-5 mm. wide at base), glabrous or 
nearly so above, covered beneath with a sparse tawny or gray arach- 
noid pubescence; petioles 1-1.5 cm. long, slender; heads about 10- 
flowered, on short pedicels, disposed in dense thyrse-like panicles; 
involucre narrowly campanulate to subcylindric, pale, stramineous; 
scales 3~5-ranked, narrowed to a mostly obtuse apex, 3-5-striate; 
florets fragrant, greenish- or bluish-white (Lehmann).— Hieron. in 
Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 570 (1901). 
Hurt: in bushy places of the mountain savannahs, alt. 1000-1500 m., La 
Plata, Lehmann, no. 8445 (Berl., fragm. and phot. Gr.). 
When known from more copious material this species may perhaps 
be found to pass into the preceding, but thus far it appears fairly 
marked. 
E. densum Benth. Erect smooth shrub, 2 m. high, with 
round ascending branches; leaves opposite, sessile, oblong- or ovate- 
lanceolate, caudate-attenuate, 7-10 cm. long, 2-2.4 cm. wide, hori- 
zontally spreading or deflexed, serrate from somewhat below the 
middle, entire at the. rounded base, pinnately veined; veinlets pellu- 
cid; panicle trichotomously branched, pyramidal, 1.5 dm. in diameter; 
heads scarcely 5 mm. high, 5-8-flowered, sessile and closely packed 
in often subspherical glomerules; involucral scales few- , 
scarious-margined, ciliate, the inner narrowly oblong, the outer 
progressively shorter, ovate; corolla with scarcely differen ated 
proper tube; achenes glabrous.— Pl. Hartw. 200 (1845). 
CunpinaMarca: Cordillera de los Andes near Bogoté, Hartweg, 00. 1105 
(K., phot. Gr.). 
Known only from the original collection, but to be easily recos- 
nized by its dense paniculate inflorescence and sessile round-based 
very sharp-pointed leaves. 
39. E. miserum Robinson. Slender erect inconspicuous perer 
nial, 2-2.5 dm. high; root of slender tough fibres; stems 1-3, terete, 
about 1 mm. in diameter, obscurely tawny-tomentellous, simple bai 
the paniculately branched leafy-bracted rather few-headed inflores- 
cence; leaves opposite, lanceolate, attenuate to an obtusish UP, 
crenate except at the narrowly cuneate entire base, membranaceous, 
green and somewhat puberulent on both surfaces, 3-nerved essentially 
from the base, 1-2 em. long, 2-5 mm. wide; petiole 2-3 mm. long; 
