58 ROBINSON. 
1 mm. high and 1 em. apart), rounded at base, coriaceous feather-veined, 
above sparingly pubescent, lucid, deeply rugose-reticulated, beneath 
paler, pubescent and minutely atomiferous, 4-8 cm. long, 1.54 em. 
wide; petiole about 1 em. long; heads about 37-flowered, about 1 em. 
high and thick, densely cymose at the ends of the leafy-bracted branches 
in an open panicle; involucre campanulate; scales about 18, clearly 
graduated, acutish, distinctly striate-costulate; corollas about 6 mm. 
long, with slightly but clearly enlarged throat.— Loreto: in mountains 
along the river Mayo, near Tarapoto, Spruce, no. 4014 (Gr.). 
29. E. Marsewst Robinson (p. 23). Tawny-velvety, probably 
shrubby (the base unknown); stems and branches terete, leafy to well 
within the inflorescence; internodes 3-6 cm. long; leaves opposite, 
lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, attenuate to a relatively short-petioled 
base, remotely and rather sharply 4-6-toothed on each side (teeth 2 
mm. long, about 1.5 cm. apart), feather-veined, 1 dm. long, 2 em. wide, 
above sparingly tawny-pubescent on the midrib, the surface otherwise 
subglabrous, somewhat shining, the reticulated veinlets depressed, 
beneath rusty- or tawny-pubescent or subtomentose, paler, the veinlets 
slightly prominent; panicle leafy; the heads crowded at the ends of 
the branches, about 56-flowered, nearly 1 em. high and thick; involucre 
campanulate, about 3-ranked; scales ovate to (the inner) linear, acutish, 
striate-costate, glandular-ciliolate, the outer dorsally a little tawny- 
hairy; corollas 5.5 mm. long, slightly and .gradually enlarged toward | 
the summit, the upper part externally a little granulated; 
dull-grayish, 2.3 mm. long; pappus-bristles about 25, white, scarcely 
roughened, about a third shorter than the corolla — DEPARTMENT at 
ASCERTAINED: at Yambrasbamba (an unidentified name pt 
correctly read from a somewhat obscure label), 1835, M: athews 00. 
(K., phot. Gr.). ; poe 
30. E. Lossn Klatt. Shrub; branches round, striate-costulate 
(after drying), fistulose, densely purplish- or later tawny-tomen ae 
(at last subglabrate), the hairs slender, spreading, ate ae . 
jointed; internodes 3-7 cm. long; leaves rhombic-ovate, of atest 
slightly obtusish apex, abruptly cuneate at the base, ren 
undulate-dentate (with 3-6 low broad irregular rounds ae — 
3-nerved from a point about 1 cm. above the base; petiole & 2 ve in 
long, panicle ovoid, opposite-branched, leafy-bracted, 13+ oe 
height and diameter; heads clustered at the ends of hs: 3 moderately 
high and thick; involucre campanulate, 2-3-seriate; scales 2 


