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base, 2 m. high; branches round or nearly so, tawny-pubescent; 
leaves opposite, nearly sessile, lanceolate, membranaceous, green and 
glabrous above, scarcely paler and rusty-pubescent on the midrib 
and chief veins beneath, attenuate to each end, remotely cuspidate- 
denticulate, 13-15 em. long, 5-6 cm. wide; panicle rusty-pubescent, 
open; heads 25-28-flowered, about 5 mm. high, some sessile but mostly 
pedicelled; involucre campanulate; scales ovate-oblong, 3—4-ranked, 
mostly 3~4-ribbed toward the base, somewhat silky-pubescent dor- 
sally toward the tip; florets doubtfully reported as yellowish (Hieron.). 
— Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxi. 332 (1895), xxviii. 573 (1901). 
Botfvar : on the voleano Turbaco, Stzibel, no. 51, ace. to Hieron., 1. c. 
Cauca: in dense woods on savannahs along the Rio Ortega, district of 
Popayan, alt. 1500-1800 m., Lehmann, no. 5971 (Berl., frag. Gr.). 
Var. typicum. Leaves lanceolate, 5-6 cm. wide; heads 25-30- 
flowered. (Lit. and exsicc. as above. 
__Var. ovatifolium Hicron. Leaves ovate, about 7 em. broad, 
abruptly contracted to the cuneate base; florets fewer, 12—19.— Hieron. 
mm Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxvill. 573 (1901), as ovatifolia. 
Wirsovr Locaurry: Triana, no. 1450. 
No material of this variety has been seen by the writer and the 
, ter has been compiled from the original description. 
50. _E. amygdalinum Lam. Svuffruticose, either smooth or (in 
extra-limital forms) in varying degree pubescent or glandular, often 
viscid, 3-6 dm. high; stems erect, leafy, mostly simple to the in- 
orescence; leaves opposite, sessile, lance- or elliptic- or ovate-oblong, 
y chartaceo-coriaceous, brownish-green, mostly obtuse, subentire 
or undulate or crenate-serrate, veiny, 5-10 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide; 
panicle terminal, somewhat fastigiately branched, 3-10 or more cm. 
i diameter; heads about 40-flowered, 7-8 mm. high; involucre 
mate-campanulate; scales about 40, linear, usually purple- 
ceed Synonymy; Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxvii 
— ). E. loniceroides HBK. Nov. Gen. et Spec. iv..116 (1820). E. 
ygdalinum, forma lonicerodes [HBK.] Ktze. Rev. Gen. i. 337 (1891). 
— PALENA: near Santa Marta, alt. 610 m., H. H. Smith, no. 614 (Gr.). 
AMARCA: eastern slo tdi, near Quetame, 
André, no. 881 (Gr) slope of the Andes of Bogo Qu 
