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6. E. GuuTinosum Lam. Shrub or small tree 2-3 m. high; 
branches terete, striate-angulate, purple, glandular-pubescent, verni- 
cose and very sticky; leaves opposite, petiolate, lanceolate, gradually 
narrowed from near the cordate base to the attenuate tip, 7-12 em. 
long, 2-3 em. wide, thickish, glabrous and lucid but deeply bullate 
and rugulose above, white-velvety beneath; petiole 1-1.8 em. long; 
corymbs terminal, scarcely exceeding the leaves, many-headed but 
not very crowded; pedicels mostly 1-1.5 cm. long, purple, glandular- 
puberulent, viscid, flexuous; heads 1 em. high and equally thick, 
about 30-flowered; involucre campanulate, 5 mm. high; scales about 
22, moderately unequal but rather loosely imbricated (transitional 
between § Subimbricata and § Eximbricata), the outer ovate, the inter- 
mediate lanceolate, acute or acuminate, dorsally convex, glandular- 
puberulent, the innermost linear; corollas purple, smooth, 5.5 mm. 
long, very slightly and gradually enlarged from near the base to the 
summit but without clearly marked throat; achenes glabrous; pap- 
pus-bristles about 37, yellowish-white, slightly stiffish, finely hispidu- 
PicnIncHa: 1833, F. Hall (sk. and fragm. Gr.); Andes of Quito, 
Jameson (Gr.). PicutncHa or Leon: between Mulalé and E 
Tambillo, alt. 2745 m., Humboldt & Bonpland. CHIMBORAZO: in 
the upper region of thickets near Pangor and Huangopod, near Caja- 
bamba, alt. 2900-3400 m., Lehmann, no. 5191 (N. Y.); in scattered 
thickets on the western slopes of Chimborazo and Mt. Tiupullo, alt. 
3300 m., Lehmann, no. 7960, acc. to Hieron. |. c. Prov. not 
INDICATED: in the Achupoyas Mountains, Hartweg, no. 1094 (sk. and 
fragm. Gr.). VERNACULAR NAMES: matico, chusalonga. 
7. E. cacatiowes HBK. A shrub with tetragonal dark-purple 
viscid or vernicose branches; leaves opposite, petiolate, oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate at apex, almost equally pointed at base, 7-8 
cm. long, 2-2.6 cm. wide, subcoriaceous, glabrous, finely reticulated 
and dark-green above, canescent-tomentose beneath; petiole 1.5 cm. 
long, smoothish, channelled above; corymbs terminal, dense, not 
exceeding the leaves; branchlets and pedicels pubescent; heads 
Sessile and pedicelled, about 8 mm. high, about 20-flowered; corollas 
tubular, glabrous, blue (Townsend); achenes dark, 3 mm. long, his- 
Pidulous-roughened on the ribs.— Nov. Gen. et Spec. Iv. 130 (1820); 
Jameson, Syn. Pl. Aeq. ii. 86 (1865).— Prcatnona? “in Regno Qui- 
tensi?” Humboldt & Bonpland (Par., phot. Gr.). CHIMBORAZO: 
