326 ROBINSON. 
87. E. paezense Hieron. Suffruticose, much branched, light 
green, 2m. high; stem terete, short-woolly; leaves opposite, petiolate, 
ovate, acute, rounded at the base, coarsely crenate to serrate, 7-8 cm. 
long, 3-4.5 cm. wide, membranaceous, 3(-5)-nerved; corymbs termi- 
nating the stem and curved-ascending branches, 5—12-headed; heads 
1 cm. high, mostly about 125-flowered (florets varying from 60 to 140, 
acc. to Hieron.); involucral scales about 30, imbricated in 3-4 series, 
the outermost (1-3) lance-linear or narrowly lanceolate and bractlike, 
the intermediate very broadly ovate-oblong, acute to acuminate, 
multistriate and with a broad callosity at the base, covered dorsally 
with a fine and often glandular pubescence, the inner scales gradually 
narrower, the innermost linear; florets reddish-lilac, 4.5 mm. long, 
tubular, only slightly and gradually dilated toward the limb; achenes 
2.8 mm. long, black, hispid on the angles.— Hieron. in Engl. Bot. 
Jahrb. ct 574 (1901). E. thespesiaefolium Klatt in Engl. Bot. 
Jahrb. viii. 35 (1887), not in the least of DC. 
Huta: in woods on savannahs between La Plata and La Topa at the Rio 
Paez, alt. 1000-1500 m., Lehmann, no. 5672 (Berl., N. Y.). 
Ex Vatie: on talus about Narango at the Rio Dagua, alt. 600-800 m., 
Lehmann, no. CXII. (Gr 
WITHOUT LOCALITY: Andes, no. 1592 (Gr.); Triana, no. 1171 (K.). 
88. E. macrocephalum Less. Coarse erect or slightly decum- 
bent perennial herb, 6-10 dm. high, setulose and scabrous; leaves 
opposite (or the upper alternate), subsessile, oblanceolate-oblong, 
crenate-serrate except at the narrowed base, 5-8 cm. long, 8-20 mm. 
wide, punctate and scabrously setose on both surfaces; branches of 
the terminal long-peduncled few-headed corymb fastigiate, unequal; 
heads erect, 1.2-1.5 em. high, 1.8-2.5 em. in diameter; scales sub- 
equal, lanceolate, acute, densely but shortly pubescent on the back; 
florets very numerous; corollas roseate, the long-exserted clavate 
style-branches conspicuous; achenes 5 mm. long, slender, slightly 
roughened on the ribs or quite glabrous, deeply sulcate between the 
angles.— Linnaea, v. 136 (1830); Bak. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. pt. 2 
358 (1876), which see for synonymy and varietal subdivision. 
SANTANDER: boggy places near Velez, 11 Oct. 1845, Purdie (K.). 
Wirsour tocatity: 1846, Purdie (K.). 
{Mexico, Brazil.] 
89. E. zinniifolium Robinson. Shrub, covered with a short 
dense ek and gland-tipped tomentum, probably somewhat visci 
