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short internodes and numerous leaves often proliferous in the axils, 
while the upright part bears only 2-3 pairs of remote somewhat re- 
duced leaves. 
82. E. pauperatum HBK. Pubescent, suffruticose, 3 dm. high, 
erect from a decumbent base, leafy two-thirds of the way to the small 
dense rounded terminal pedunculate corymb; leaves deltoid, acute, 
truncate at the base, crenate-serrate (teeth about 7 on each side, the 
proximal rounded, the distal acutish), 3-nerved, somewhat pubescent 
above, softly so beneath, 1.2 em. long, 1 em. wide; petiole about 6 mm. 
ong; involucre campanulate; scales lanceolate, subulate-tipped, 
green, ribbed, ciliate, the slightly shorter outer ones dorsally pubescent; 
florets 5 mm. long; corollas glabrous, violet-tinged at the summit; 
achenes glabrous.— Nov. Gen. et Spec. iv. 121 (1820). 
New Grenapa? with no more definite locality, Humboldt & Bonpland 
(Par., phot. Gr.). 
Known only from the original collection. Placed doubtfully in 
§ Conoclinium from its resemblance to other members of the group. 
The writer has had no opportunity to ascertain the nature of the 
receptacle, a feature not mentioned in the original description. 
E. microphyllum L.f. Small decumbent herb, 1-3 dm. high, 
Perennial or at times fruticulose (but sometimes exhibiting fibrous 
apparently annual roots); stem terete, covered with fine spreading 
curved white hairs, leafy to the middle or somewhat higher; leaves 
°PPosite, petiolate, very small, thick, coriaceous, ovate, obtuse, 
rounded or more often cordate at base, crenately about 3-toothed on 
each side, 3-nerved, green and glabrous above, white-woolly on the 
hirsutulous; peduncular summit of the stem often 1 dm. long, flexuous, 
‘ing 1-2 pairs of reduced leaves and a dense terminal rounded 
corymb (1.5-4 em. in diameter); heads about 18-flowered; involucral 
Scales 2-3-seriate, lanceolate, gradually attenuate to a subulate tip, 
Sreen or often purple-tinged, 2-4-ribbed, the outer successively shorter, 
— pubescent on the back; corollas violet-tinged or blue (Rusby & 
ennell) » externally puberulent; achenes almost black, 2.3 mm. long, 
Herne pen ard, rounded at summit, glabrous.— Suppl. 355 (1781); 
ring Mém. Soe. neuchat. Sci. Nat. v. 419 (1913). Conoclinium 
*erophyllum (L. f.) DC. Prod. v. 135 (1836). 
Mo oNDENAMARCA: Montserrate near Bogoté, Holton, no. 318 (Gr.); slopes of 
‘serrate and Péramo Cruz Verde, Mayor, no. 75, acc. to Heering, I. ¢.; 
