
24 ROBINSON. 
alta et diametro foliaceo-bracteata; pedicellis 3-7 mm. longis fulyo- 
tomentosis; capitulis ad apices ramorum subdense dispositis ca, 
56-floris ca. 9 mm. altis et crassis; involucri campanulati squamis 
subtriseriatim imbricatis paullo gradatis ovato-lanceolatis eostulatis 
purpureo-tinctis glanduloso-ciliolatis et dorso sparse tomentellis; — 
receptaculo plano glabro; corollis 5.5 mm. longis sensim sursum — 
ampliatis extus limbum versus paullulo granulatis; styli ramis clavel- _ 
lati-filiformibus; achaeniis pallide griseis 2.3 mm. longis plerisque 
basi curvata callosis; pappi setis ca. 25 laete albis 3.5 mm. longis 
corolla conspicue  brevioribus.— Peru: Yambrasbamba, 1835, 
Mathews, no. 1386 (K., phot. Gr.). ) 
E. (§Conoclinium) metense, spec. nov., herbaceum erecturm 
oppositirameum breviter tomentosum saltim 6 dm. altum ; 
ignota); caule ramisque adscendentibus teretibus leviter ‘multi- 
costulatis; internodiis usque ad 7 em. longis; indumento denso primo 
griseo tardius fusco-brunneo; foliis oppositis’ ovato-oblongis obtusis 
grosse crenatis saepius deflexis et conduplicatis 3-6 cm. longis 15-3 
cm. latis basi abrupte angustatis supra griseo-viridibus tomentellis 
subtus pallidioribus griseo-tomentosis a basi 3-nervus, venls laxe 
anastomosantibus; petiolo 2-6 mm. longo; corymbis renee eer 
nantibus irregulariter compositis densiusculis convexis; Capit 
breviter pedicellatis 6.5 mm. altis 4.5 mm. diametro ca. 28-flons; 
involucri campanulati squamis ca. 20 subaequalibus leviter pe 
oblongo-lanceolatis acutis pallide viridibus plerisque saps 
3-nerviis dorso griseo-hirsutulis; corollis laete roseo-purpureis Ba 
3.7 mm. longis supra mediam partem paullo in fauces pa 
ampliatis; dentibus pattnti-recurvatis; styli rams Jonge exse” 
vix incrassatis 3.5 mm. longis; achaeniis nigris glabris L7 ae Tongs: a 
pappi setis albis minute barbellatis 3 mm. longis basi mm 40m” ke 
: f Villavicena? 
paullo connatis.— CoLompra: grassy llano east © 7 (N.Y 
Intendencia Meta, 1-2 Sept. 1917, Dr. F. W. Pennell, no. 1617 WX: © 
phot. and fragm. Gr.). onpcinil 
This species has so closely the habit and involucre of ee recep m 
that it seems best to place it there provisionally, although ual in the x 
cle is only moderately convex, considerably less so than Is usu? this 
section. Among the Colombian Kaparey te but differs : 
new species approaches most nearly E. ballotaef t oblong rather 
from it in its strictly opposite short-petioled leaves ° fo eee 
than deltoid-ovate contour and of considerably in ae lee : 
. OV.; ‘ : , 
E. (§Subimbricata) orgyaloides, spec. ™ sige: pe : 
cosum (basi ignota) petiolis et ramis inflorescen 

