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petiole-like entire base; heads short-pedicelled, in dense rounded 
corymb or at length loose irregular corymbose panicle, about 20- 
flowered; involucre campanulate, about 2-seriate, the inner scales 
oblong 2-3-ribbed and smoothish to the middle, ending in tomentel- 
lous and erubescent rounded slightly dilated tips of softer texture, 
a few of the outer scales progressively shorter and narrower, the 
outermost linear, acutish; corollas said to be red, glabrous, slightly 
and gradually enlarged upward; achenes dark, 2.5 mm. long, puber- 
ulent, tapering to a sharp villous base; pappus-bristles about 30, 
yellowish-white, barbellate— Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxii. 771 
(1897). Gyptis Commersonii Cass. Dict. xx. 178 (1821). Eupa- 
fortum Bacleanum DC. Prod. vy. 157 (1836). Gyptis Commersoni 
(Cass.] Bak. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. pt. 2, 314 (1876), in syn. — Peru 
WITHOUT LocALITY (as “inter Peruanas’’): Haenke, acc. to DeCan- 
dolle, 1. c. [Southern Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentine.] 
E. TRACHYPHYLLUM Hieron. Woody climber; branches round, 
closely clothed with a short and stiffish reflexed tawny pubescence, 
the hairs pointed, non-glandular; leaves opposite, ovate-oblong, 
caudate-acuminate, rounded at base, entire, concolorous, firmly 
membranaceous, 3-nerved from somewhat above the base, above dull 
green, scabrous-puberulent, rugulose-reticulated, beneath tomentellous 
specially on the prominent reticulation, mostly 7-12 cm. long, about 
a third as wide, petiole 1-2 cm. long, retrorsely velvety-puberulent; 
Panicle branched at right angles, the branches naked except at the 
densely floriferous tip; heads 6-7-flowered, subsessile, numerous 1n 
close Subglobose glomerules; involucres narrowly campanulate, sca- 
Mus, stramineous, the scales very unequal, mostly linear-oblong, 
slightly ciliate toward the obtuse or rounded tip, 3-5-costulate, 
¢ inner promptly deciduous; corollas pale, probably flesh-colored, 
glabrous, slenderly tubular, slightly and gradually enlarged upward, 
mm. long; achenes purplish-black 2.3 mm. long tapering toward the 
callose base, at the summit slightly constricted into a short neck bear- 
Ing the pappiferous disk; pappus-bristles about 30, white with a light 
yellow tinge, barbellate.— Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxxvi. 467 
(1905), — CasaAMARCa: near Tambillo, 29 Aug., 1878, von Jelski, no. 
697 (Berl., fragm. Gr.). 
41. E. acumwwatum HBK. Nov. Gen. et Spec. iv. 107 (1820); 
Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxxvi. 469 (1905); Robinson, Proc. Am. 
Acad. liy, 290 (1918).— Casamarca: near Tambillo, 13 Aug., 1878, 
ton Jelski, no. 790, acc. to Hieron. |. c. [Colombia.] 
“te writer has had no opportunity to verify the Peruvian record of 
