TROPICAL AMERICAN COMPOSITAE. a 
oblongis (supremis lanceolatis) acuminatis basi levissime cordatis 
mucronato-serratis (serraturis vix 1 mm. altis 6-8 mm. latis) tenuibus 
a basi 3-5-nerviis (nervis inter sese a venis transversis connexis) 
10-12 cm. longis 3-4.5 em. latis; petiolo brevi gracile viscidulo-to- 
mentello 4-6 mm. longo; panicula oppositiramea laxa ovoidea basi 
vel saepe ad mediam partem foliaceo-bracteata; pedicellis filiformibus 
glabris saepe cum bracteolis squamiformibus solitariis instructis 
8-15 mm. longis; capitulis ca. 52-floris 7 mm. altis 9 mm. diametro; 
involucri late campanulati squamis ca. 30 (1-3 extimis brevioribus 
exceptis) subaequalibus linearibus acutissimis glabris obscure 1-3- 
nervatis; corollis 3 mm. longis albis vix sursum gradatim ampliatis 
glabris; antheris apice cum appendice ovata integra munitis; achaeniis 
(immaturis) ca. 2 mm. longis ut videtur glabris; pappi setis ca, 28 
tenuibus albis sublaevibus.— Peru: in woods near the tambo Isilluma 
between Sandia and Chunchusnago, alt. 1000 m., 23 June, 1902, 
Weberbauer, no. 1206 (Berl., phot. and fragm. Gr.). 
In habit and foliage recalling the Brazilian E. laeve DC. but readily 
distinguished by its much looser inflorescence, puberulent petioles, 
leaves nerved from the very base, more numerous florets, ete. 
E. (§ Eximbricata) lobatum, spec. nov., herbaceum perenne 
pluricaule decumbens 1-4 dm. altum; caulibus teretibus viridibus 
vel fuscescentibus flexuosis simplicibus vel oppositirameis foliosis, 
Internodiis 1-2 em. longis; foliis oppositis graciliter petiolatis in 
axillis saepe proliferis, laminis ovatis 1-2 em. longis fere aequilatis 
profunditer crenato-lobatis vel inferioribus etiam subpinnatim 3- 
foliolatis utrinque viridibus et pilosulis subtus vix pallidioribus, lobis 
5-9 integris vel crenato-lobatis apice obtusissimis vel rotundatis, 
petiolo 5-15 mm. longo; capitulis mediocritibus solitariis et terminalibus 
vel in corymbis parvis paucicapituliferis erectis vel saepius nutantibus, 
pedicellis 3-10 mm.1 ongis gracilibus tomentellis; involucro campanu- 
ato 8-11 mm. diametro multiflosculoso, squamis 1—2-seriatim imbri- 
catis subaequalibus oblanceolati-oblongis subherbaceis acutis vel 
obtusis viridibus vel apice scarioso-purpurascentibus 6-8 mm. longis; 
corollis verisimiliter albis externe granulosis 4-5 mm. longis, tubo 
Proprio gracili faucibus eylindricis breviori, dentibus limbi brevis- 
‘mis suberectis; achaeniis gracilibus griseo-brunneis fere ab apice 
ad basin gradatim angustatis basi substipitatis in costis pulcherrimé 
ciliolatis ; pappi setis albis tenuissimis fragilibus 3-4 mm. longis.— 
E. scopulorum Sch. Bip. Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xii. 82 (1865) & 
Linnaea, xxiv, 535 (1865-6); Rusby, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. iv. 378 
(1907); not Wedd.— Bottv1a: on cliffs in the subalpine region, near 

