362 ROBINSON. 
puncticulate and sparingly pilose beneath. (Lit., synon., and exsice. 
as above. 
Var. Bonptanpianum (Sch. Bip.) Robinson. Leaves finely 
pubescent above, velvety-tomentose beneath.— Proc. Am. Acad. 
xlii. 27 (1906). E. syringaefolium Turez. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. xxiv. 
pt. 1, 169 (1851). Ophryosporus solidaginoides, var. Bonplandianus 
(Sch. Bip.) Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 4 (1900), as Bonplandiana. 
— ImpasuRra: ravines near Ibarra, Jameson, no. 676 (Gr.); in bushy 
places near Ibarra, alt. 1200 m., Sodiro, no. 6/19 (Berl., fragm. Gr.). 
38. E. prcHincnense HBK. (see p. 317); Hieron. in Engl. Bot 
Jahrb. xxix. 13 (1910).— Picnincua: slopes of Mt. Pichincha, Hum- 
boldt & Bonpland, no. 3116 (Par., phot., Gr.); Quitensian Andes, — 
Couthouy (Gr.); in woods on the Volcano Pasochoa, alt. 2900 m. 
Sodiro, no. 6/6a, acc. to Hieron, |. ce. [Colombia.] 
39. Soprror Hieron. Weak branched undershrub 12 m. 
high; branches curved-ascending, terete, puberulent (hairs minute, 
jointed, purplish); leaves opposite, petiolate, suborbicular-ovate, 
obtuse, 3~5 cm. long and wide, few-toothed except at the entire an 
commonly oblique or strongly asymmetrical base, subglabrous on both 
surfaces; petiole 9-14 mm. long; corymbs terminal and lateral from 
the upper axils, together forming a large leafy-bracted flattish-topped 
inflorescence; heads somewhat glomerate, pedicelled, 25-30-flowered; 
involucre campanulate; scales about 18, lance-linear, thin, green, 
loosely villous on the back, subequal, about 2-seriate; corollas white, 
4 mm. long, shortly villous toward the limb; the proper tube slender, 
about equalling the much larger cylindrical throat; achenes upwar@y 
hispid on the angles.— Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 12 (1900).— 
Prov. NOT INDICATED: in subandean thickets, Sodiro, no. 6/6b (Berl : 
fragm. Gr.). 
40. E. GRAcILE, var. EPILOBIoIDES (HBK.) Robinson (see P- 313). 
E, caducisetum DC. Prod. v. 165 (1836); Benth. Pl. Hartw. 201 (1849). 
E. caducicetum Jameson, Syn. Pl. Aeq. ii. 90 (1865).— P ae 
between Quito and the village of Guapulo, acc. to Benth. |. ¢» a” 
caducisetum; environs of Quito, acc. to Jameson, I. ¢., a8 4 caduct- 
cetum. [Colombia.] 
The Ecuadorian plant mentioned by Bentham is ae 
slightly smaller leaves than the original Colombian one. The aut” 
had no opportunity to examine or verify the identity of the Ecua 
dorian material of this plant. Belonging as it does to a highly flora . 
cal group it should have further study before its presence the Hore 
of Ecuador can be regarded as established. t 
41. E. cuencanum Robinson (see p. 241). Slender decumben 
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