62 ROBINSON. 
ceolate, sessile, attenuate to each end, rather remotely denticulate, 
green and glabrous above, paler and on the midnerve sordid-pubescent 
beneath, 5-10 cm. long, 1-1.8 em. wide, thin, membranaceous, feather- 
veined, veins about 6 or 7 on each side, curved forward and anastomos- 
ing with each other; panicle terminal, its slender branches and fili- 
form pedicels clothed with short dirty-brownish curly hairs; heads 
about 18-flowered, about 6 mm. high; involucre turbinate, several- 
seried, its scales stramineous, mostly linear-oblong, obtuse or rounded 
at the tip and often slightly tufted on the back near the summit, 
mostly 2-costulate; corollas 3 mm. long, glabrous; proper tube slen- 
der 1.8 mm. long, the throat 1.2 mm. high, turbinate; style-branches 
with flexuous very delicate attenuate and papillose appendages; 
achenes blackish, 1.5 mm. long, sparingly hispidulous on the angles; 
pappus-bristles about 25, very delicate, nearly smooth, white— 
Loreto: along the Huallaga River, Spruce, no. 4167 (Gr.). 
38. E. PILLUANENSE Hieron. Suffruticose, 5 dm. high; stems 
puberulent, striate; leaves opposite, elliptic- to rhombic-ovate, acute 
or obtuse, entire, cuneately narrowed below but cordate and half- 
clasping at the sessile base, chartaceous, puberulent above, densely 
tomentulose beneath, feather-veined (lateral veins 6-8 on each side, 
leaving the midrib at about 45° and then curved-ascending, connected 
by reticulation), the largest 12 cm. long, 4-4.5 em. wide; spur 
terminal, compound, leafy-bracted below; heads corymbose or su 
racemose toward the tips of the branches, some also borne pees 
from the axils of the bracts, pedicellate or more rarely sessile, 14-17- 
flowered; involucre about 4 mm. long, the scales about 20, — 
the inner linear-oblong, stramineous, 1-3-nerved and striate, a 
outer gradually shorter and broader, 4-nerved, the outermost oe 
about 3 mm. long; achenes about 1.5 mm. long, dark, smooth. 2. 
Verh. Bot. Verein Brand. xlviii. 201 (1907).— Loreto: Salinas 
Pilluana, Ule, no. 6780. ston is 
This species has not been seen by the writer. The descrip aes 
condensed from the original, in which the plant 1s said to be near 
related to E. iresinoides HBK. but to differ in its firmer more pl 
nately veined leaves, larger heads, and more numerous florets. poke 
39. E. Commersont (Cass.) Hieron. Nearly be f 
bent, rather densely grayish-pubescent, 3-5 dm. wt : he middle 
stoutish, curved-ascending, leafy below, nearly naked abov : 
to the terminal, rather dense, often nodding inflorescence ; os 
opposite, oblong, obtuse, 1 dm. long, 3 cm. wide, mre myneate 
) adually cune@ 
coarsely serrate-crenate or lobed except on the long gt 

