EUPATORIUMS OF VENEZUELA. 335 
Var. SUBVELUTINUM (DC.) Bak. Stem covered with a very fine 
incurved puberulence; leaves puberulent to sparingly tomentellous 
beneath — Bak. |. c. 282.— Mérma: near Tovar, Fendler, no. 1952 
(Gr.) 
Without adequate material to determine the extent to which the 
forms of this variable species are actually connected by intergradation, 
it has seemed best provisionally to accept Baker’s disposition of the 
present plant as a variety of E. squalidum. It may be remarked that 
the leaves of the Fendler specimen are larger and more pointed than 
in any other material of E. squalidum seen by the writer, but concomi- 
tant differences of significance have not been observed. 
10. E. oxyteris DC. Shrubby, 1-2 m. high, much branched, 
scented; branches ascending, terete, somewhat woody, grayish- 
pubescent; leaves opposite, elliptic-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, sub- 
entire to crenate-serrate (often with a single tooth or sometimes with 
24 teeth on each side), slightly roughened above, velvety-hirsute 
beneath, 2.8 cm. long, 1.6 cm. wide, 3-nerved from the base; petiole 
24 mm. long; panicle much branched, very leafy; heads 14-20- 
flowered, 7-10 mm. high; involucre cylindrical, acute in bud; scales 
stramineous, firm, regularly graduated in 5-7 series, closely appressed, 
glabrous, slightly lucid, lanceolate to lance-linear, gradually narrowed 
to a really acute or (especially in the case of the outer) somewhat 
darkened and obtuse actual tip; corollas purple, cylindrical, glabrous. 
— Prod. vy. 145 (1836); Bak. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. pt. 2, 284 (1876), 
excl. syn. E. pungens Gardn. 
(Var. typicum. Heads about 1 cm. long; corollas 4-5 mm. long; 
achenes 3-4 mm. long.— Plains of Brazil, in provinces of Goyaz, 
Geraés, Sao Paulo, etc.] 
Var. CaRAcASANUM (Sch. Bip.) Hieron. Closely similar in habit, 
foliage, pubescence, etc.: heads somewhat smaller; involucre about 
7 mm. long; corollas and achenes proportionally shorter.— Hieron. 
im Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 567 (1901), as caracasana. FE. caracasanum 
Bip. ex Hieron. 1. c— Feprrat DIst.: Caracas, Birschel (Gr.), 
on, no. 65, acc. to Hieron. 1. c. Mértpa: on stony hills near 
tados de Petare, Gollmer, acc. to Hieron. 1. c. Mérta: near 
» Tovar, alt. 671 m., Fendler, no. 1951 (Gr.), identified with the type 
material at the Royal Botanical Museum in Berlin by Dr. J. M. 
oo E. xestoteris Robinson (see p. 261). Stems round, woolly 
young, almost smooth in age, dusky, pithy; branches widely 
» Curved (either upward or downward), sordidly and densely 
