306 ROBINSON. 
54. E. angustifolium (HBK.) Spreng. Shrub or small tree 
attaining 6 m. in height (André), grayish-woolly; leaves opposite, 
petiolate, oblong or elliptic, acute or obtusish, entire or undulate or 
sinuate-dentate above the entire rounded base, 6-10 cm. long, 2.5-5 
cm. wide, pinnately veined, glabrate and obscurely reticulated above, 
gray-tomentose beneath; petiole stoutish, 5-8 mm. long; heads about 
7-flowered, 1 cm. long, in compound terminal corymbs; involucral 
scales about 11, subequal, 3-5 mm. long, bluntly pointed, the outer pu- 
bescent on the back; florets much exserted; corolla with short proper 
tube and longer slightly ampliated then somewhat contracted throat; 
achenes beset with sessile glands.— Syst. iii. 415 (1826). Cacaha 
asclepiadea L. £. Suppl. 352 (1781). Mikania angustifolia HBK. Nov. 
Gen. et Spec. iv. 138 (1820). E. coperense Hieron. in Engl. Bot. 
Jahrb. xxi. 330 (1895), see Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. xlii. 37 (1906). 
Boyach: Péramo de Coper, Stiibel, no. 1629 (Berl., fragm. Gr.). 
Cunpinamarca: Montserrate, near Bogotd, from the herb. of de Parseval- 
Grandmaison, no. 46 (Gr.); at foot of the Cordillera Occidental, near Bogoté, 
alt. 2800 m., André, no. 888 (Gr.); Guadalupe, alt. 3000 m., Bros. Apollinatré 
& Arthur, nos. 69 (U. 8.) and 72 (Gr.). 
Totma: between Ibagué and Cuesta de Tolima, Humboldt & Bonpland 
{Par., phot. Gr.). 
ITHOUT LOCALITY: Mudis (Linn. Soc., phot. Gr.). 
A characteristic species, but, as now placed in its proper genus, 
very ineptly named. 
E. pomaderrifolium Benth. Much branched firm-wooded 
shrub; branches very leafy, round, gray-tomentellous; leaves OPP 
site, petiolate, elliptical, entire, acutish, mucronate, 3.5-6 cm. long, 
-2.2 em. wide, chartaceo-coriaceous, pinnately veined, glabrous 
(except on midrib) and reticulated above, thinly gray-tomentose 
beneath; petiole slender, 3-10 mm. long; heads about 14-flowered, 
9 mm. high, in dense compound leafy-bracted round-topped corymbs; 
involucral scales about 14, subequal, loosely imbricated, lance-oblong, 
pubescent, claret-colored toward the obtusish apex, 2-3 of the outer- 
most much smaller, slightly separated bractlets; corollas infe 
to be purple-tinged, with short gland-sprinkled proper tube and longer 
upwardly villous cylindrical throat; achenes beset on the angles with 
sessile glands.— Pl. Hartw. 199 (1845); Heering, Mém. Soc. neuchat. 
Sci. Nat. 419 (1913). 
Cunpinamakca: near Bogotd, Hartweg, no. 1098 (K., phot. Gr.); 0B an 
tains near Bogota, Holton, no. 321 (Gr.), slope of Montserrate, above Bogoté, 
alt. 2800 m., Mayor, no. 71, ace. to Heering, l. c. 
