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cences; involucre about 4-seriate, narrowly campanulate; scales about 
30, ovate-lanceolate to linear, acute, viscid; corollas about 5.5 mm. 
long, glabrous; achenes 5 mm. long, sparingly glandular between the 
scabrous ribs (f. Hieron.).— Nov. Gen. et Spec. iv. 130 (1820); Hieron. 
in Engl. Bot. xxix. 10 (1900). E. persicaefolium [HBK.|] DC. Prod. 
v. 162 (1836); Jameson, Syn. Pl. Aeq. ii. 86 (1865).— Leon: base of 
Cotopaxi, near Mulal6, alt. 2928 m., Humboldt & Bonpland (Par., 
- phot. Gr.). Tuncuracua: near Mocha, Sodiro, no. 6/23a, acc. to 
10. E. arsorrum HBK. A small tree in technical characters 
exceedingly close to the preceding; branches also hexagonal and 
smooth, those of the inflorescence sordid-pubescent; leaves much as 
in the preceding but in the type-material really rounded at base, 
densely sordid-pubescent beneath; corymbs rounded, about equalling 
or slightly exceeding the leaves; heads about 25-flowered; involucre 
somewhat turbinate-campanulate; scales fuscous-stramineous, ciliate 
and dorsally somewhat puberulent or pulverulent, inclining to vis- 
cidity, acute, the outer ovate-lanceolate, the inner linear.— Nov. 
Gen. et Spec. iv. 131 (1820); Jameson, Syn. Pl. Aeg. ii. 87 (1865); 
Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 10 (1900), excl. syn. E. buddleae- 
folium.— Cuimporazo: between Pomallacta and Alausi, alt. 2562 m., 
Humboldt & Bonpland, no. 3240 (Par., phot., sk., and fragm. Gr.); 
on slopes of Chimborazo, Sodiro, no. 6/16, acc. to Hieron. lL e— 
Tuneuracua: near Ambato, Sodiro, no. 6/23b, ace. to Hieron. I. c. 
The Peruvian E. discolor DC. Prod. v. 161 (1836), reduced by Hier- 
onymus, I. c., to this species, is shown by the original in the us 
Herbarium at Geneva to have leaves cuneate at base, much less 
toothed (indeed only obsoletely crenulate), and much more densely 
1-2.5 cm. wide; petiole about 1 em. long; ¢ 
heads Tema 6 involucre and florets as in the two preceding 
species.— Nov. Gen. et Spec. iv. 131 (1820); Jameson, Syn. Pl. Aeq. 
ii. 88 (1865) — Cumeorazo: in cool places on slopes of Chimborazo, 
alt. 3294 m., Humboldt & Bonpland, no. 3144 (Par., phot. Gr.). 
12. E. ortcanomwes HBK. (see p. 284); Benth. Pl. Hartw. 198 
