COLOMBIAN EUPATORIUMS. 307 
56. E. rorulentum Robinson. Shrub or tree with terete hard- 
wooded fuscous branches and somewhat fastigiate sordid-tomentose 
branchlets; leaves opposite suborbicular-ovate, obtuse, serrate except 
at the cordate base, coriaceous, somewhat 3-nerved from well above 
branchlets; involucral scales 7-10, subequal, lance-oblong, acutish, 
orsally tawny-tomentose; florets inferred to be whitish; achenes 
tapering downward, beset on the angles with shortly stiped glands.— 
Proc. Am. Acad. liv. 255 (1918). | 
CunpDINAMARCA: at Guadalupe, alt. 2900 m., Bros. Apollinaire & Arthur, 
no. 27 (Gr.). 
Obviously near to E. prunifolium HBK. of Ecuador, which, however, 
has longer relatively narrower subentire leaves, rounded but not 
cordate at base. 
the internodes exceedingly short; leaves opposite, subsessile, elliptic- 
vate, narrowed to an obtuse apex, rounded at base, crenately few- 
toothed, coriaceous, green on both surfaces, 1-2 cm. long, 5-10 mm. 
wide; petiole 2 mm. long; heads 5-6-flowered, in dense round-topped 
corymbs; involucral scales oblong, subequal, loosely imbri- 
cated, ciliolate, the tip and margins often claret-colored; achenes 
glabrous (Benth.) or hispid on the angles.— Pl. Hartw. 200 (1845). 
E. confertifolium Klatt, Abh. naturf. Ges. Halle, xv. 324 (1882), & 
tn advance reprint p. 4 (1881). 
ie NAMARCA: in Cordillera de los Andes, near Bogota Hartweg, no. 1104; 
oe near Bogoté, Holton, no. 310 (Gr.). 
HOUT Locauity: Triana, no. 3 (Gr.). 
= attractive little alpine undershrub, easily distinguished from the 
ted species by its small thick leaves, which are very close together. 
. 38. E. fastigiatum HBK. Smooth shrub with angulate ascend- 
ing leafy branches; leaves opposite, lance-oblong to typically oblong, 
