60 ROBINSON. 
opposite, ovate-elliptic, acuminate, serrate, except toward the obtuse 
or rounded base (teeth 0.4-0.7 mm. high, 4.5-7 mm. wide), feather- 
veined (chief veins about 5 on each side, leaving the midnerve at an 
angle of 60°-65° and curving forward), reticulate-veiny, above scabrid, 
dark-green, beneath pubescent, paler, membranaceous, 12-15 em. long, 
half as wide; petiole densely rusty-velvety, 8-25 mm. long; corymbs 
pedunculate, raised well above the leaves, compound, rounded, the 
branches wide-spreading; 1.54.5 cm. in diameter; heads short-pedicelled, 
about 7.5 mm. high; involucre campanulate; scales 2-3-seriate, gradu- _ 
ated, the outer apparently ovate-oblong, narrowed to an obtusish 
apex; corollas white, scentless— Poepp. in Poepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. 
ac Spec. iii. 55 (1845).— Ancacus (or possibly Huanuco) in mountain 
woods at Pampayaco (Cuchero), Poeppig (Hofmus. Vienna, phot. Gr.). 
33. E. oreyatomes Robinson (p. 24). Shrub or tall herb with 
slender dark-brown branches, nearly smooth and leafy to the inflores- 
cence; internodes 4-6 cm. long; leaves opposite, lance-oblong, acuminate 
at each end, undulate-margined and remotely cuspidate-denticulate, 
chartaceo-membranaceous, feather-veined, glabrous and 
net-veined on both surfaces, a little paler beneath, the largest 1.6 dm. 
long, 6 em. wide; petiole minutely dusky-puberulent 4-7 mm. long; 
panicle broadly pyramidal, leafy-bracted below, its slender opposite 
branches widely spreading and flowering only toward the tip; heads 
about 20-flowered, 4.5 mm. high and thick; involucre bell-shaped, 
dusky- or greenish-stramineous, the scales imbricated but not very 
clearly graduated, ciliolate but otherwise glabrous, the mner oblong 
to linear, the outermost ovate, acuminate, often recurved at the tip; 
corollas glabrous, only slightly and gradually enlarged upward, ae 
mm. long; achenes (immature) 1.7 mm. long, glabrous; P Eni 
dull-white, 2 mm. long, the bristles about 30.— Loreto: near 
poto, 1855-56, Spruce, no. 4546 (K., phot. Gr.). : 
In many respects near the preceding, but with essentially Aisi ~~ 
stems and obscurely toothed, or subentire leaves acumin@ 
base. reaching ping 
34. E. prepanores Robinson (p. 12). Glabrous leafy; 
a height of 4 m.; branches. nearly round, —- broadly scythe 
mm. high, Bis : 
internodes 1-2 em. long; leaves opposite, lan 
shaped, acuminate, acute at base, serrate (teeth 0.6 
ules, benea 
wide), firmish, above flat, dull, sprinkled with fine grant ee : 
t 2 cm. long; 
slightly paler, 3-nerved above the base, then fe 
em. long, 1.8-2.1 em. wide; petiole glabrous, “— 
corymbs terminal, sessile, compound, rounded, 1 ¢™ 
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