338 ROBINSON. 
14. E. mestnomwes HBK. (see p. 285). 
Var. a. VILLOSUM Steetz. Leaves copiously villous to tomentose 
beneath; scales of the involucre acute to acuminate.— Steetz in 
Seem. Bot. Herald, 145 (1854).— Mérma: Tovar, Moritz, no. 1722, 
Fendler, nos. 624 (Gr.), 1946 (Gr.). FEpERa Dist.: Caracas and La 
Guaira, Moritz, acc. to Steetz, l.c. Aragua: Las Adjuntas, Eggers, 
no. 13,346 (U. S.). Marearrra Ist.: El Valle, Miller & Jo 
no. 129 (Gr.); San Juan Mountain, Johnston, no. 95 (Gr.). 
Var. 8. GLABRESCENS Steetz. Leaves sparingly villous or nearly 
smooth; scales of the involucre acute or acuminate.— Steet in Seem. 
Bot. Herald, 145 (1854).— Feperat Dist.: on mountains and in 
mountain gorges, in moist shady places among Agaves, La Guaira, — 
Otto, no. 383 (Gr.); also Moritz, acc. to Steetz, 1. c. CARABOBO: 
Puerto Cabello, Curran & Haman, no. 1153 (Gr.). 
Var. 7. BREVIFLORUM Hieron. Stems whitish-tomentellous; leaves 
deltoid-ovate, conspicuously and cuneately decurrent upon Me 
petioles; heads slightly smaller; involucre about 4 mm. long; the 
scales broader, the inner and middle obtuse, the outermost acutish.— 
Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 573 (1901), as breviflora.— MEeErDA: 
near Tovar, Fendler, nos. 623 (Gr.), 1946 (Gr.). Frperat Dist: 
Caracas, Birschel. The type of this well marked variety was a plant 
cultivated in the Royal Garden at Berlin, about 1843 (phot. Gr.). 
15. E. Wacenert Hieron. Doubtfully shrubby; ‘branches slightly 
sulcate-angled or subterete, velvety; internodes as much as 4.9 CM 
long; leaves opposite, petiolate, broadly deltoid-ovate, shortly acumr 
nate to an acutish or obtusish point, entire or undulate, cuneate 
~~ decurrent on the petiole, membranaceous, glandular-puberulent 
_ above, densely glandular-pubescent beneath, 3-nerved well _ 
the base, as much as 4.5 em. long and 3 cm. wide; panicle termin®® 
heads 5-flowered, cymosely glomerate, sessile or very shortly pedi- 
. 
long; style-branches scarcely thickened; papp 
white, connate into an annulus at the base; achenes 1.5 
