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an _aewlgge network beneath; heads in compound 
co s j. 
j. Leaves subchartaceous, subglabrous, ovate to 
ovate-lanceolate, attenuate, rather obscurely 
serrate (none in the least hastate); pedicels 
usually 1—-1.5 cm. long, mostly curved or hooked 
. E. subscandens. 
j. Leaves membranaceous, somewhat thicker, 
rhombic- to deltoid-ovate, rather coarsely and 
often somewhat hastately crenate-toothed, 
densely and softly villous or even tomentose be- 
neath; pedicels usually 2-8 mm. long, mostly 
MURMEIG ooo wii Satie wait pes dw ome 8. E. odoratum. 
leafy 
I oe ils ie Oe . EH. squalidum, v. subvelutinum. 
h. Scales lance-linear, acute; heads in a leafy-bracted 
thyrsoid panicle; leaves small (2-4 em. long), not 
conspicuously reticulated beneath 
10. E. oxylepis, v. caracasanum. 
Mayes pordate at base............02.7. 020 6ss. 11. E. zestolepis. 
1. E. pettrum Klatt (see p. 272). VENEZUELA, without precise 
locality, Funck & Schlim, no. 522 (Gr.). 
E. Morrrztanvm Sch. Bip. (see p. 273). Mérrpa: in subalpine 
places, Mérida, Moritz, no. 1366 (Gr.). 
3. E. tarvicarum Lam. (see p. 273). FEprrat Dist.: Caracas, 
Birschel (Gr., N. x 
4. E. rarrouum L. (see p. 275). Mérma: Tovar, Fendler, 
no. 1948 (Gr.). 
.>- E. urricomes Sch. Bip. Nearly or quite herbaceous, 5 dm. 
high: stems round, branched above, sparingly beset with spreading 
jointed hairs; leaves opposite, rhombic-ovate, subchartaceous, 
long, half as wide; panicles both terminal and from the upper axils, 
the ultimate cymes 3-7-headed; pedicels 7-18 mm. long; heads 45- 
60-flowered; involucre campanulate; scales 5-7-seriate, the inner 
long and narrow, scarious and with 1 green nerve, the apex subher- 
» purplish and covered with orange glands, the outer scales 
sradually shorter, broader, and 3-striate, with subtriangular herba- 
iio appendages; corollas purple, 4.5 mm. long, glabrous; achenes 
vey immature) dark, the ribs stramineous and roughened.— Sch. 
._P. €x Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 568 (1901).— Ménripa: 
ng vam places on the Victoriana road of Tovar, near La Viscaina, 
ontz, no. 834, ace. to Hieron. 1. c. Feperat Dist.: between La 
| and Desaguados, near the city of Caracas, Gollmer, acc. to 
