
46 ROBINSON. 
Am. Acad. liv. 278, 346 (1918). Perv: on the Andes, but without 
record of exact locality, Haenke acc. to DC. 1. e. [Ecuador, Colombia.] 
No Peruvian material or more precise record of this species has been 
seen by the writer, though it appears to be tolerably frequent in Ecuador. 
6. E. TENUICAPITULATUM Hieron. Opposite-branched, erect, 5 dm. 
high, herbaceous; stems and branches terete, dull purple, covered at 
first with a scanty delicate appressed and jointed pubescence; leaves 
opposite, ovate-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, finely serrate, firmly 
membranaceous, appressed-puberulent on the nerves and chief veins, 
green and glabrous above, lighter green and punctate beneath, about 
1 dm. long and 3 em. wide, base entire, rounded but at the insertion 
subcuneate; petiole 5-12 mm. long; corymbs terminal, compound, 
crowded, flattish; heads about 10-flowered, subsessile by 2’s and 3°, 
about 8 mm. long and 2 mm. thick (acc. to Hieron.); involueral scales 
about 20, stramineous, with dark purplish mucronate pubescent at 
length slightly squarrose tips.— Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxv. 
465 (1905).— Casamarca: near Tambillo, von Jelski, no. 598 (Berl., 
fragm. Gr.). 
7. E. squatrpum DC. Prod. v. 142 (1836); Bak. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 
vi. pt. 2, 281, t. 77 (1876); Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. liv. 334 (1918). 
[Var. Typ1cum Robinson, |. c. Branches villous-hirsute, the esr 
mostly straight, widely spreading, attenuate, with dark articulations; 
leaves roundish-ovate, of firm texture, very shortly petioled— Eastem 
Brazil, e. g. at Marianna, Minas Geraés, Vauthier, no. 279 (DC, Gr), 
etc 
Var. Russyanum Robinson (p. 34). Stem and branches — 
with short whitish mostly incurved and unjointed hairs; leaves oval 
lanceolate to rhombic-ovate, above sparingly appressed- - 
beneath sordid-tomentellous and glandular-punctate, the pan > 
sufficiently dense to obscure the punctation.— PERU WITHOUT pore 
LOCALITY: Mathews (N. Y.). [Boliv.] == 4 61 
8. E. scaprum L. f. Suppl. 354 (1781); J. E. Sm. Te ih Se 
(1791); Bak. in Mart. FI. Bras. vi. pt. 2, 299 (1876); Robineam be 
Am. Acad. liv. 277 (1918).— Perv wITHOUT LOCALITY: wee ee 
extends the distribution of this Colombian species to Peru but doe 
mention the collector [Mathews?]. The species has been ss od of its 
interpreted in the past that this single and undetailed record 0 
occurrence in Peru must until verification be subject to 
doubt. [Colombia.] j Proc. Am. 
. E. oporatum L. Syst. ed. 10, 1205 (1759); Robinson, 14 (1768)5 
Acad. liv. 280, 346 (1918). E. conyzoides Mill. Diet. ed. 8, 9° 
