366 ROBINSON. 
proper tube about 2 mm. in length, the funnel-formed throat slightly 
longer; achenes blackish, hispidulous on the angles.— Hieron. in 
Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xl. 387 (1908).— Prcutncua: in thickets at the base 
of Mt. Pichincha, alt. 300 m., Sodiro, no. 3, acc. to Hieron. |. c. (whence 
above char. is here compiled). 
48. E. REcREENSE Hieron. Herbaceous and probably perennial, 
2-2.5 m. high; leaves opposite, petiolate, round-ovate, very closely 
and obscurely crenate except at the acuminate and mucronate apex 
and rounded base, membranaceous, puberulent on the! nerves above 
and over the entire lower surface, the largest 15 cm. long, 13.5 em. 
wide; petioles as much as 5 cm. long; heads 20-25-flowered, in dense — 
terminal cyme-like corymbs; pedicels 2-10 mm. long; involucre 
narrowly campanulate, 4-5-seriate; scales 30-40, the upper part 
lacerate-ciliate on the hyaline margin but otherwise smooth, the apex 
provided with a thin obtuse appendage; corollas 3.5 mm. long; 
achenes glabrous, dark-colored.— Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. x. 
389 (1908).— Manasi: near Hacienda El Recreo, von Eggers, no. 
15,148, ace. to Hieronymus, I. c., from whose original description the 
above character is condensed. 
49. E. oprustsquamosum Hieron. Shrub with habit of E. maecro- 
phyllum and E. uapulense; stems subterete or somewhat angulate 

costate, brownish-green, narrowly scarious-margined, rounded nae 
tip, the innermost linear and readily deciduous; receptacle hemisp t 
cal, shortly pilose; corollas slenderly tubular, 5 mm. long, the he 
slightly and gradually enlarged, glabrous, the limb very rseie es 
hispidulous; achenes 1.6 mm. long, dark-brown with pale 1 ab: 
Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 14 (1900).— Prov. NOT INDICATED: 
in moist subandean thickets, Sodiro, no. 6/20a (Berl., phot. and frag 
Gr.) 
50. E. NeMorosum Klatt (see p. 327). From this species gh 
been impossible to separate the Bolivian E. Rusbyi Britton, pi 
Torr. Bot. Club, xviii. 334 (1891). Furthermore, although the wr 
has had no opportunity to examine material of E. pteropodwm Hieron 
