8 ° ROBINSON. 

liv. 238, 311 (1918). This continental variety of the West Indian 
E. celtidifolium was, at the time of its description, known to the writer 
only from Colombia, where it had been twice collected near Santa 
Marta. It has bees rediscovered in northern Venezuela at Lower 
Cotiza (Agr. Exp. Sta.), near Caracas, on the sunny side of a gorge, 
alt. 925 m., Pittier, no. 7897 (Gr.). Prof. Pittier describes it as a 
shrub or onal tree, 3-4 m. high, with small greenish flowers =e 
~< branchlets. ee 
(§ Eximbricata) .choricephaloides, spec. nov., ut Vv 
sent de (basi ignota) verisimiliter 1 m. vel ultra altitudine; pce 
ramisque gracilibus flexuosis t -etibus dense patenterque glanduloso- 
puberulis; internodiis usque ad 1 dm. longis; foliis oppositis del- 
toideo-ovatis apice acuminatis basi subtruncatis vel leviter patenterque 
cordatis lateraliter serratis- vel crenato-dentatis (dentibus inaequalibus : 
rotundatis vel subacutis utroque ca. 10) membranaceis supra 
puberulis et in nervis venisque maximis villosis ca. 6 em. longis et 45, 
em. latis a basi 3-nerviis; petiolo 1-3 cm. longo glanduloso-tomentell 
panicula laxissima foliaceo-bracteata 4 dm. alta 3 dm. diametro é 
glanduloso-puberula; pedicellis filiformibus 1-2.6 em. longis; cape — 
tulis dissitis ca. 7 mm. altis 25-30-floris; involucri campanwai — 
squamis subaequalibus anguste oblongis vel oblanceolatis acutis — 
viridibus 2-3-costatis dorso puberulis ca. 4 mm. longis apicem versus — 
scariosis et erosis; corollis albis glabris, tubo proprio fauces ampzats 
subaequante; dentibus limbi brevissimis ca. 0.3 mm . longis; 
pallide brunneis 1.8 mm. longis in angulis hispidulls in a 
cavis laevibus; pappi setis ca. 12 albidis minute scabridulis.— 
Department Amazonas, Province Chachapoyas, Mathews (KI = 
and fragm. Gr.). In habit and very loose inflorescence : 
Mexican E. choricephalum Robinson, but differing in many — 
E. (§ Subimbricata) coelocaule, spec. nov., fruticosum; Bis 
curvato-adscendentibus teretibus robustis griseo-brunn runneis Bors 
glabris laevibus fistulosis; internodiis 3-4 em. longis; foliis. “Adal 
lanceolato-oblongis vel rhombeo-lanceolatis longe acuminatis ser 
17 cm. longis 



















rubeseente glabro; foliis supremis ee ene geen 
corymbo sessili terminali composito leviter convexo 
dense crispeque fulvo-tomentello; capitulis numerosissimi : 
binis vel trinis aggregatis sessilibus vel brevissime 
5-floris 10-12 mm. longis 2-3 mm. crassis graciliter ¢ 

