336 ROBINSON. 
woolly-villous; leaves opposite, ovate, sharply acuminate, cordate 
at the rounded base, crenate-serrate, 3-5 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, 
bullate and puberulent above, below gray-tomentose and prominently 
reticulated with transverse veins between the 3(-7) nerves; corymbs 
open and few-headed; pedicels spreading, slender, pubescent, 2-12 
mm. long; heads about 9 mm. high, 6 mm. in diameter, about 28- 
flowered; involucre campanulate-subcylindric, the scales about 27, 
somewhat rigid, ivory-white, shining, 1-3-nerved, 4-5-seriate, 
romptly deciduous; corollas glabrous, 4 mm. long, the proper tube 
considerably exceeding the campanulate throat; pappus-bristles 
about 26, slightly clavellate and yellowish toward the top; achenes 
black, 4-5-angled, slightly scabrid on the angles— Méripa: near 
Tovar, Fendler, no. 638 (Gr.). Frprrat Dist.: Caracas, Birschel 
(Gr.); on the old road from Caracas to La Guaira, alt. 1100-1700 m. 
Pitter, no. 5880 (U. S., N. Y.) 
Sect. II. Supimpricata (DC.) Hoffm. (see p. 281). 
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Key To SPECIEs. 
a. ee herbs or shrubs 
seieerd we or _ te (2-5-headed) glomerules, dis- — 
é. Pie vohienl ¢ scales 2 3(5)-nerved or -ribbed_ d. 
d. Leaves pinnately veined 
e. Heads about (atieeteed ‘leaves attenuate at base, 
about 3 em. wide; corolla with a peroana yy en- 
larged throat about = — as the proper tube. . 12. E. tovarensé. 
e. Heads about 21- ; ca a leaves mostly 
fended at base, 4. 5-10 ¢ m. wide; corolla Masco 
tien Whee oo ea . EB. Squiresit. 
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d. Leaves palmately 81-5) served f. 
fh ee about 5-flo ment 2. ne 
cr = t to tomentose but not 
fictelae eee a se Sy oe ee ee 14. 2B. — 
J. Heads 20-25-flowered. 2.5... 2. 3..12- 22. E. ee 
b. Heads in flattish-topped eugene branched Het, 
panicles; leaves firm-coriaceous..............-.- 17..- ssid 
e 
Wee PAM ie a eee E. inulaefolium 
h. Leaves osatsioblon ng to suborbicular, mostly sro or 
yp es at the distinctly petioled base 7. 
. Shrubs (except EZ. tenuifolium); heads 4-10-flowered j. 
