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perennial herb, glabrous up to the inflorescence, this beset with short 
dark stipitate tack-like capitate glands; stem terete, flexuous, very 
smooth, purplish-brown; leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, cordate at 
base, narrowed to an obtusish tip, firmly membranaceous, 2-2.5 em. 
long, 1.2-1.6 em. wide, 3(-5)-nerved from the base; petiole slender, 
8-12 mm. long; inflorescence a loose terminal trichotomous few-headed 
cyme; heads 16-19-flowered, about 7 mm. high, 3-4 mm. in diameter; 
involucre campanulate, the scales about 18, acute or a little erose, 
mostly 2-costulate and 3-nerved, 5 mm. long, beset with a few stipi- 
tate glands; corollas apparently white, 3.5 mm. long, the proper tube 
1.7 mm. long, the throat cylindrical, moderately enlarged, the limb 
sparingly short-villous; achenes 3 mm. long, pale brown, glabrous: 
crowned by a disk, pappus-bristles about 14, caducous.— Azvuay, 
Cuenca, Saillé (K., phot. Gr.). : 
E. GLECHONOPHYLLUM Less. Perennial herb or slender under- 
shrub; stem terete, flexuous, usually purplish, at first puberulent, at 
length glabrate; hairs all very short, some spreading and gland-tipped, 
others incurved and attenuate; branches opposite, curved-ascending; 
leaves deltoid-ovate, slender-petioled, more or less caudate-acuminate 
at the apex, rounded, subtruncate, or open-cordate at the base, thin- 
membranaceous, serrate to more often rather coarsely crenate, vary- 
ing greatly in size (1-7 em. long, 0.8-5 em. wide), nearly glabrous; 
petiole 0.4-3 cm. long, pubescent; corymbs terminal, leafy-bracted 
at base, mostly rather loose; heads about 30-flowered, slender- 
Pedicelled; involucral scales narrowly lanceolate, obtuse to acuminate, 
subequal, the outer dorsally pubescent; corollas white, with roseate 
tinge, glabrous except near the slightly hispid limb; proper tube 
slender, about equalling the distinctly enlarged cylindrical throat; 
achenes about 2 mm. long, black or nearly so, hispidulous.— Linnaea, 
vi. 105 (1831); Gay, Fl. Chil. iii. 474 (1847); Reiche, FI. Chil. iii. 
265 (1902), which see for synon.— Prcuincna: Andes of Quito, 
Jameson (Gr.), Couthouy (Gr.). (Chili, Peru.] E. Sternbergianum 
DC. to which some of the Ecuadorian material has at times been 
referred is a doubtfully separable Peruvian species. : 
43. E. azanGaroense Sch. Bip. (see p. 315); Hieron. in Engl. Bot. 
Jahrb. xxix. 13 (1900).— Prov. Nor INDICATED: in subandean thickets, 
Sodiro, no. 6/3, Weddell’s narrower-leaved forma a, acc. to Hieron. 
Lc; in andean pastures, Sodiro, no. 6/5 (Berl., fragm. Gr.), the 
broader-leaved forma 8, ace. to Hieron. I. ec. j 
is species is scarcely distinguishable from the preceding but the 
writer hesitates to reduce it to synonymy without study of authentic 
material not at present accessible. 
