EUPATORIUMS OF ECUADOR. : 365 
Sect. V. Heseciinium (DC.) Benth. (see p. 327). 
Key To Sprciss. 
b 
m conspicuously quadrangular................ 46. EH. guapulense. 
Cc. : 
¢. Seales of the involucre about 20 subequal, somewhat 
ligulate-appendaged; leaves short., cuneate at the base 
47. E. ovatifolium. 
c. Scales 30-50, graduated; leaves not cuneate at the base d. 
d. Leaves 3-nerved from a point 5-10 mm. above the 
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: from the cordate base; 
scales ovate to oval, ver yfobtuse, not appendaged; 
Pee NOTOR ea 49. E. obtusisquamosum. 
: : ads 
a. Petioles winged; florets 100-300.......... a soe . E. nemorosum. 
pubescent above, rusty-tomentose beneath; heads 20-30-flowered 
*H Paniculately disposed glomerules rather than in a corymb; corollas 
light-blu 
"a roughened.— Leopoldina, xx. 90 (1884); Hieron. in Engl. 
Havre abrb. xxix. 14 (1900). Hebeclinium tetragonum Benth. PI. 
Father 198 (1845); Jameson, Syn. Pl. Aeq. ii. 79 (1865).— PrcHIncHa: 
Ha a rare, between the village and bridge of Guapulo near Quito, 
eg, no. 1097 (K., phot. Gr.); in moist subandean thickets, 
rg no. 6/26b, ace. to Hieron. 1. c. 
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or VATIFOLIUM Hieron. Herbaceous perennial 5 dm. high 
gh stem simple and glabrate below, above pubescent, dark- 
» ter : 
membranaceous, sparingly villous above, glabrous beneath, 3- 
3.5—4 cm. wide; petiole 0.5-3 cm. long, not winged; 
stig in crowded terminal cymes; pedicels pubescent, 
: ¢m. long; involucre broadly campanulate; scales about 
20, : 8 e y campa. ; : 
ay linear-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, somewhat ligulate- 
aged and often purplish at the tip; corollas 5 mm. long, the 
