
38 ROBINSON. 
tomentellis 16-19 cm. longis 6-9 em. latis; nervis lateralibus principibus 
(2-jugis) ca. 1 cm. supra basin laminae nervo medio orientibus; petiolo 
3-5 cm. longo granulari-puberulo; panicula terminali corymbiformi 
planiuscula usque ad 2 dm. diametro breviter crispeque pubescenti; 
capitulis numerosissimis breviter pedicellatis ca. 13-floris ca. 9 mm. 
longis; involucri anguste campanulati squamis ca. 16 lineari-oblongis 
acutiusculis (obscure 2-costatis) subaequalibus (1-3 extimis brevioribus) 
dorso granularibus margine eroso-ciliolatis; corollis ca. 5 mm. longis 
albis sursum gradatim mediocriter ampliatis; limbi dentibus 5 delto- 
deis; achaeniis griseo-brunneis deorsum decrescentibus 2.5 mm. longis 
in angulis hispidulis basi conspicue callosis; pappi setis ca. 31 barbellatis 
corollam fere aequantibus sordide albidis.— Perv: woods near a brook, 
below Pampa Romas, between Samanco and Caraz, Dept. Ancachs, 
alt. 2100 m., 29 May, 1903, Weberbauer, no. 3184 (Berl., phot. and 
fragm. Gr.). A species of exceptional luxuriance both as to 
and foliage, somewhat resembling the Bolivian E. longipetiolatum Sch. 
Bip. ex Rusby, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, iii. no. 3, 52 (1893), which, how- 
ever, has a more open inflorescence, shorter, relatively broader, and dor- 
sally more pubescent involucral scales, purple corollas, more ot 
clearly crenate leaves, ete. EE. uber is also close to the Bolivian E. 
gloeocladum Robinson described above, which, however, has smaller 
lance-ovate, regularly feather-veined leaves, viscid stems, ete. : 
E. (§ Subimbricata) urubambense, spec. nov., herbaceum et P& 
enne vel fortasse fruticosum (basi ignota); caulibus (vel ramis) erectis 
teretibus purpureis crispe albo-puberulis; foliis oppositis ovato“an 
latis fere a basi ad apicem gradatim angustatis sed apice vero saepissimé 
obtusiusculis basi obtusis vel rotundatis crenatis a puncto ener 
3-nervatis crassiusculo-membranaceis supra obscure viridibus puven’ ” 
leviter rugulosis subtus griseo-tomentosis 5-6.6 cm. 
latis; petiolo 5-8 mm. longo; corymbis trichotomis fo 
inflorescentiis particularibus densis rotundatis 3-6 ¢m™- _diameto i 
capitulis ca. 10-floris ca. 8 mm. altis subsessilibus; involucr! ar 
drico-campanulati squamis ca. 3-seriatis apice rotundatis, exter 
brevissimis, intermediis late ellipticis brunneo-stramunels saepss 
d-nervatis et 4-costulatis aliquanto marginatis, intimis lin tubulosi 
apice paullo eroso-ciliatis; corollis 4.8 mm. longis gt Jongis 
supra basin sensim constrictis glabris; achaeniis fuscis 2.6 mm. : 
deorsum attenuatis sursum in costis villosis; pappi sets C@ "ne 
Baws ole < : ae ‘ Urubamba in 
avido-albidis 4.3 mm. longis sublaevibus. Pelee pe 
Valley of Ymay [?], Pentland (K., phot. and fragm. UT/ varieties 
E. Siissisond DC. Prod. v, 168 (1836). Of this specie baa 

