350 ; ROBINSON. 
Cordillera de Riobamba, acc. to Jameson, |. c. Losa: between 
Utuana and Colaisaca, alt. 2540-2640 m., C. H. T. Townsend, no. 995 
(U. S.). Pressed leaves have the odor of licorice (Townsend). 
8. E. BUDDLEAEFOLIUM Benth. Shrub; branches purplish-brown, 
smooth, shining, vernicose; internodes about 5 cm. long, somewhat 
compressed-tetragonal, with concave slightly costulate surfaces; 
leaves opposite, petiotate, lance-oblong, serrulate-denticulate from 
the cuneate base.to the gradually acuminate apex (teeth very numer- 
ous, 0.4-0.8 mm. high, 1.5-2.3 mm. broad), green, glabrous, and lueid 
above, strongly 1-costate and pinnately many-veined (veins 30-40 
on each side, leaving the midrib at an angle of 65°-87°), reticulated : 
beneath, the surface gray-tomentose, the veins nearly smooth, slightly 
coriaceous, 1-1.5 dm. long, 2-3.2 cm. wide; petiole 1-1.8 em. long; 
corymb terminal, trichotomous, surpassed by the leaves, glabrous but 
viscid; heads 14—15-flowered, sessile or nearly so, 11 mm. long, 5mm 
in diameter; involucre subcylindric-campanulate, about 5-seriate; 
scales about 25, stramineous, long-ciliate, otherwise subglabrous, 
viscid, the outer ovate to ovate-lanceolate, often purple-tipped, the 
innermost linear, readily deciduous; corollas presumably purple, 
4.8 mm. long, glabrous, the tube gradually enlarged from near the 
base to the limb but without distinctly marked throat; achenes about 
3 mm. long, sparingly hispid on the angles; pappus-bristles very 
numerous (about 70) and finely capillary, yellowish-white.— PL. 
Hartw. 135 (1844); Jameson, Syn. Pl. Aeq. ii. 81 (1865). Incorrectly 
reduced to E. arboreum by Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 10 (1900). 
—Losa: in mountains, Hartweg, no. 757 (K., sk. Gr.). Prov. NOT 
INDICATED: Quitensian Andes, 1855, Couthouy (Gr.). {Pi eru, Prov: 
of Chachapoyas, Mathews.| Compared by Bentham to E. salicinum 
Lam., but not closely related. E. salicinum has tomentose brane 
and subsessile nearly entire leaves of different texture and venation, 
the lateral veins being only 6-8 on each side and leaving the midrib 
_ at an angle of only about 45°. ti 
9. E. persicirorium HBK. Erect shrub; branches hexagonal, 
subglabrous, arcuate or flexuous; internodes 4-8 cm. long; leaves 
opposite, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, attenuate-acuminate at" 
apex, at base rounded in general contour but slightly cuneate oy ad 
point of insertion on the petiole, denticulate or crenulate, subcori®- 
ceous, glabrous and rugulose above, white-tomentose beneath, about 
9 cm. long and 2.5-3 cm. wide; petiole about 1.5 cm. long; 
terminal, exceeded by the leaves, rounded, trichotomous; hea , 
25-flowered, mostly pedicelled though crowded in the partial inflores- 
ds about . 

