64 ROBINSON. 
this species, indeed has seen no specimens of it except from central 
and southwestern Colombia where it appears to be abundant. If 
Hieronymus is correct in his identification, the plant of von Jelski 
extends the known range southward toward 1000 km. 
42. KE. crENULATUM Spreng. Glabrous shrub, with ascending 
slender more or less flexuous purple branches leafy up to the loose 
terminal racemose panicle; leaves opposite, lance-oblong to rather 
‘broadly elliptic, acute or obtuse, cuneate at base, finely serrate, 3- 
nerved from the base, of firmly coriaceous texture, punctate, scarcely 
paler beneath, 5-7.5 cm. long, 1-3.5 cm. wide, 5-15 mm. long; heads 
very numerous, about 5-flowered, about 6 mm. high, shortly pedicelled, 
racemosely disposed on long flexuous branches of a more or less pyTa- 
midal panicle; involucre subcylindric, of few purple-tinged stramin- 
eous very unequal elliptic-lanceolate firmish round-tipped scales, 
the inner paler, ciliolate, the outer darker and somewhat puberulous; 
corollas 4.5 mm. long, the proper tube slender, granulated, 2.6 mm. 
long, the throat definitely though not greatly enlarged, smoothish, 
limb short densely granulated on the outside; achenes at maturity 
black and shining, almost prismatic; pappus-bristles 25-30, firmish, 
stramineous, tapering from near the base, obscurely barbellate.— 
Spreng. ex Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxii. 776 (1897). Bace 
crenulata Spreng. Syst. iii. 465 (1826). Eupatorium dendroides Bak. 
in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. pt. 2, 321 (1876), excl. syn. Mikania arborea 
Kunth. For further synon. see Bak. 1. ¢.— Cuzco: San Miguel, 
Urubamba Valley, alt. 1800 m., Cook & Gilbert, no. 1113 (U. S.)- 
Peru wirnour tLocauity: 1902, Weberbauer without number 
(Berl.). 
This species is not closely related to any other i 
recall those in some species of Baccharis, = genus 
first referred. [Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia. : : 
E. cae at in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xx1. 329 Lisi 
Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. liv. 288, 354 (1918).— ree mags 
Chachapoyas, Mathews (Gr.). This Peruvian specim 
tified with the type at Berlin by Dr. J. M. Greenman. (Ecuador, 
Colombia. 
Sas ives Hieron. Suffruticose; branches er 
terete, spreading, flexuous, covered with short dense sai 
deflexed brownish-gray scarcely or not at all glandular se nearly 
leaves opposite, ovate, acute, crenate-serrate except at nved from 
truncate base (teeth 0.8-1.4 mm. high, 3-4 mm. wide), 3-ne ce 
a slightly acuminate attachment (the lateral nerves soon "© 
n Peru. _ Its leaves 
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