354. ROBINSON. 
dull and covered with a soft olivaceous pubescence, 3(—5)-ribbed, 
2.5-4 cm. long, half as wide; petiole 4-12 mm. long; inflorescence 
a much branched compound terminal hemispherical corymb or a 
leafy-bracted dense pyramidal panicle; heads 10-12-flowered, 7 mm. 
high, shortly slender-pedicelled or some sessile in the forks of the 
cymose branching; involucre campanulate, about 3-seriate; scales 
pale, scarious-stramineous, thin, ciliate, dorsally pubescent or at least 
pulverulent-puberulent, the outer broadly ovate, rounded at the tip, 
the inner oblong, obtuse; corollas 3 mm. long, apparently white, the 
proper tube about equalling the scarcely differentiated but slightly 
expanded throat, glabrous; achenes 1.8 mm. long, glabrous.— Hieron. 
in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 10 (1900).— Prcutncua: Andes of Quito, 
Jameson, no. 68 (K.). Azuay: Surucucho, near Cuenca, Jameson 
(K.). Prov. Nor npIcaTeD: sterile places in the interandean region, 
Sodiro, no. 6/24b (Berl., phot. and fragm. Gr.); without locality, 
Jameson (U. S.). 
21. E. Sruepetm Hieron. (see p. 288).— Cumporazo: Campa 
mento Utifiag, valley of the Rio Chambo, alt. 3045 m., Stiibel, no. 272 
(Berl., phot. and fragm. Gr.). [Colombia.] - 
E. rnuLaEFoutum HBK., f. suavEoLENS (HBK.) Hieron. (see 
p. 291).— Cummporazo: Pallatanga Valley, alt. 2000 m., Sodiro, no. 
6/12, ace. to Hieron. |. ¢. 
E. rucosum HBK. Shrub; branches trichotomous, round, 
softly pubescent, curved-ascending; leaves opposite, short-petioled, 
triangular-ovate, obtuse at apex, subtruncate, rounded, obtuse, OF 
barely acute at base, crenate, scabrid and _ bullate-rugose above; 
canescently hispid-tomentose beneath, 3-3.6 cm. long, 2-4- 25 
wide; petiole 4-5 mm. long; corymbs dense, terminal, 4.5-7.5 em. 
in diameter; heads 18-20-flowered, 1.4 cm. high; involucre narrowly 
campanulate; scales about 30, the inner narrowly oblong, ple 
substramineous, ciliate, obtuse, the intermediate and outer MY" 
broader, firmer in texture, dark-violet toward the broadly roune™” 
tip, narrowed below, mostly 5-ribbed, the ribs united at base; pee 
las pale-purple, smooth, except for some granulation on the ou 
of the limb, 5-nerved, about 5 mm. long; achenes hisp! 
summit; pappus-bristles yellowish-white, hispid-roughened, un@}" 
— Noy. Gen. et Spee. iv. 114 (1820); Jameson, Syn. Pl. ee 
(1865).— CuimBorazo: on dry open hills between Alaust and se 
de Sitzan, alt. 2288 m., Humboldt & Bonpland, no. 3227 (Par., pho 
sk., and fragm. Gr.). 
24. E. opscurtrotrum Hieron.’ Erect or somewhat 
d near the 
decumbent 
