334 ROBINSON. 
Hieron. 1. c. Wrrnout tocatiry: Lansberg; acc. to Hieron. |. ¢. 
Not seen by the writer. The description compiled. 
E. MERIDENSE Robinson. Herbaceous or somewhat shrubby 
perennial: stem erect, closely covered with short tawny wool of very 
fine matted hairs; internodes 3-6 cm. long; leaves opposite, lanceo- 
late, attenuate-acuminate to each end, crenulate or subentire, firm- 
ish in texture, 4-6 cm. long, 1-1.5 em. wide, bullate and puberulent 
above, tawny-tomentose on the 3 nerves and prominently reticulated 
veins beneath; corymb much rounded, compound, 1 dm. in diameter; 
heads numerous, pedicelled, about 10-flowered, 9 mm. high, 3.5 mm. 
in diameter; involucre slender-cylindric, 4-5-seriate; scales oblong, 
rounded or subtruncate at the ciliolate brownish summit; co 
presumably purple; achenes very slender, 3.2 mm. long or more, 
‘ papillose on the ribs.— E. scabrum Sch. Bip. ex Hieron. in Engl. Bot. 
Jahrb. xxviii. 569 (1901), not L. f— Mfrrpa: Mérida, Moritz, no. 
1365 (Gr.). 
7. E.oporatum L. (see p. 280). Mérma: near Tovar, alt. 915m. 
Fendler, no. 636 (Gr.), same locality, alt. 610 m., Fendler, no. 1949 
(Gr.). 
Var. PAUCIFLORUM Hieron. (see p. 281). Mrranpa: La Venta, 
Wagener, acc. to Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 564 (1901). 
STATE NOT INDICATED: in bushy places at “Guajaca rumbo,” alt. 
600 m., Wagener, no. 277, acc. to Hieron. |. c. 
8. E. suBscanDENS Hieron. (see p. 279). Mérma: near Tovar, 
alt. 700 m., Fendler, nos. 1950 (Gr.) and 1950 6 (Gr.). 
9. E. squarumum DC. Shrub 1-2 m. in height, much branched 
above, densely pubescent; stems terete; branches ascending; leaves 
opposite, ovate, short-petioled, subcoriaceous, 2-5 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. 
wide, 3-nerved from above the base, somewhat prominently reticulate- 
veiny beneath, puberulent above, slightly paler and more cop! 
sordid-pubescent beneath as well as closely beset with orange glands 
(appearing finally as a dark punctation); petiole 24 mm. long; 
inflorescence a leafy panicle; heads short-pedicelled, about 30-flowered, 
8-10 mm. long, slender; involucre cylindric; scales firm, str amineousy 
somewhat browned toward the summit, closely imbricated in about 6 
series, regularly graduated, rounded or usually somewhat narrow 
to an obtuse apex, faintly 3-nerved, ciliolate; achenes slender, 3.5 ™™ 
long, smooth or nearly so on the almost black faces, ciliolate on the 
light-colored ribs.— Prod. v. 142 (1836); Bak. in Mart. Fl. Bras- ate 
pt. 2, 281 t. 77 (1876). 
[Var. typicum. Stem hirsute-villous, the hairs spreading; el 
hirsute-villous beneath.— Common on plains in the interior of Brazil. 
