300: - ROBINSON. 
elliptic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, mostly round-based, 
3-5-nerved, shallowly and remotely serrate; panicles ample, 2-3 dm. 
or more in diameter; heads 45-70-flowered, separate, 12 mm. high, 
nearly as thick; pedicels 3-25 mm. long; outer scales. of the involucre 
broadly ovate-oblong, acute, many-striate, the inner narrowly lance- 
oblong; corollas roseate or lilac, 7 mm. long, slightly enlarged near 
the limb, glabrous; achenes 3 mm. long, glabrous (DC.) or at least 
microscopically hispid on the angles; receptacle slightly concave.— 
Prod. v. 163 (1836); Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 572 (1901). 
E. ecuadorae Klatt, Ann. k. k. Natur. Hofmus. Wien, ix. 356 (1894). 
Campuloclinium surinamense Mig. Linnaea, xvii. 69, (1843), & 
Stirp. Surinam. 182, t. 53 (1850). 
MacpatENa: open damp places in forest, generally near streams, Aqua 
Dulce near Santa Marta, alt. 305 m., H. H. Smith, no. 920 (Gr., U.S.). 
- Cauca: near Tuquerres, alt. 1400-1800 m., Lehmann, no. 5208, ace: to 
Hieron., |. ce. 
[Central America to Peru and Brazil.] . 
Leaves, according to a note of Lehmann, quoted by Hieronymus, 
1. c., pale, yellowish-green. : 
48. ornithophorum Robinson. Perennial herb, grayish- 
n, tomentellous; stem striate-angulate, gray-brown; leaves 
lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, pinnate-veined, bluntly and irregu- 
larly toothed, bullate and scabrid above, paler and gray-tomentose 
beneath, 1 dm. long, 2.5-3.5 em. wide, toward the base at first con- 
tracted then expanded into a suborbicular toothed perfoliate disk 
about 1.2-2 cm. in radius; heads about 22-flowered, 7 mm. high, 
subsessile in glomerules disposed in a large open terminal cymosely 
branched panicle; receptacle flat; involucre turbinate, about 4-ranked; 
scales lanceolate to (the innermost) linear, acute; corollas 3 mm. long; 
purplish or violet; achenes 1.2 mm. long, coarsely granular on 
faces.— Proc. Am. Acad. liv. 254 (1918). 
Huma: Cordillera Oriental, east of Neiva, 7 Aug. 1917, Rusby & Pennélh 
no. 1034 (N. Y., fragm. and phot. Gr.); foot of Cordillera Oriental, neat 
Neiva, Rusby & Pennell, no. 479 (N. Y., fragm. Gr.). 
Noteworthy on account of the perfoliate leaves, a feature not found 
in any other Colombian species of the genus as yet recorded. The 
name has been suggested by a perceptible resemblance of the pairs 
-of connate leaves to birds with wings extended in flight. 
49. E. turbacense Hieron. Perennial herb, slightly woody at 
