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herb, reaching 2 m. in height; stem terete, sordid-puberulent; hairs 
short, spreading, flexuous, attenuate; internodes 4-6(-8) em. long; 
leaves opposite, petiolate, narrowly ovate, gradually narrowed to an 
acutish or acuminate apex, rounded at the base, bluntly serrate- 
dentate, membranaceous, 3-nerved from the base, puberulent on 
the nerves, fuscous-brown or dark-olivaceous in drying, dull, 4-6 em. 
long, about half as wide; petiole 8-11 mm. long; corymbs trichoto- 
mous, leafy-bracted at base; heads 30-70-flowered (Hieronymus), 
9 mm. high, pedicellate; involucral scales about 25, somewhat gradu- 
ated, about 3-seriate, lance-linear, mostly 2-ribbed, the ribs united 
- at base into a conspicuous elongated callosity; corollas reddish-lilac 
(Lehmann), 4.5 mm. long, slender, slightly and gradually enlarged 
upward, hispidulous near the limb; achenes smooth, shining, dark- 
brown, 2 mm. long.— Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 9 (1900).— 
Azuay: in dense thickets, near Chagdl and Yerbas-buenas, on the 
slopes of the western Andes, near Cuenca, alt. 2000-2700 m., Lehmann, 
nos. 4884 (Berl., fragm. Gr.) and 7984 (Berl., phot. Gr.). CHIMBORAZO: 
in the subandean region, Sodiro, no. 6/7b, ace. to Hieron. 1.¢. [Colom- 
bia, acc. to Heering.] 
E. CHIMBORAZENSE Hieron. Presumed to be suffruticose and 
climbing; the round stems glandular-pubescent; internodes 4-5 em. 
long; leaves opposite, slender-petioled, ovate-lanceolate, caudate- 
attenuate, rounded at base, serrulate, firm-membranaceous or sub- 
chartaceous, above puberulent, in age rugose and _ bullate, below 
sordid- or olivaceous-pubescent and copiously covered with sessile 
glands, subtriplinerved then pinnate-veined and prominently reticu- 
lated, 7-9 em. long, 2.4-3 cm. wide; petiole 1.3-2 em. long; corymb 
dense, terminal, about 6 cm. in diameter; heads subsessile or on short 
thick and densely pubescent pedicels, 25-40-flowered, about 9 mm. 
long; involucre campanulate; scales graduated, about 4-serlate, nar- 
rowed to an acute tip, the outer ovate, dorsally crisped-puberulent, 
the intermediate and inner gradually longer, narrower, and smoother, 
mostly 3-nerved; corollas (in dried material showing 5 dark nerves) 
5 mm. long, glabrous, slenderly tubular, slightly and gradually en- 
larged upward; achenes 2.5 mm. long, glabrous; pappus-bristles 
yellowish-white, minutely scabrid.— Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 
Sapa HIMBORAZO: on slopes of Mt. Chimborazo, Sodiro, no. 
5 (Berl., phot. and fragm. Gr.). 
26. E. atic 2M. fue p. 299); Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 
Xc0x. 11 (1900). E. ecuadorae Klatt, Ann. k. k. Naturh. — 
fien, ix. 356 (1894).— Guayas: in dense woods near Naranjal, 
