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uco: in bushy places at Cassapi, Poeppig, no. 30 (DC., phot. Gr.). 
WITHOUT INDICATION OF DEPARTMENT: Haenke, acc. to DC., 1. ¢.; 
in Andes of Peru, Wasner [doubtfully legible], no. 1349 [apparently 
_of the Mathews series] (N. Y.); Mathews, without number (Gr.). 
Forma suaveotens (HBK.) Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 11 
(1900), xxviii. 572 (1901), xxxvi. 470 (1905); Robinson, Proc. Am. 
Acad. liv. 292 (1918). E. suaveolens HBK. Nov. Gen. et Spec. iv. 
109 (1820).— Casamarca: near Tambillo, 7 August, 1878, von Jelski, 
nos. 692, 742, acc. to Hieron. |. c. xxxvi. 470. [Ecuad., Colomb., 
Venez. } 
48. E. GRracitentuM Robinson (p. 18). Slender perennial herb 
3-4 dm. or more high; root of a few strong slender lignescent elongated 
fibres; stems 1-several from the base, erect, or at least decumbent, 
terete, purplish, 1-2 mm. in diameter, sordid-puberulent or -tomen- 
tellous; internodes 2-11 cm. long; leaves opposite, deltoid-ovate, 
acute to acuminate, crenate-dentate except at the rounded, truncate 
or subcordate base, 1.8-3 em. long, 1.1-2.3 em. wide, thin, membrana- 
ceous, softly pubescent above, grayish-tomentose beneath, 3-nerved 
from the insertion; petiole slender, subterete, gray-pubescent, 4-8 
mm. long; heads about 25-flowered, 6 mm. long, 3.7 my. in diameter, 
borne in loose irregular 1-5-headed cymes at the ends of the spreading 
branches of an open leafy-bracted panicle; involucre narrowly cam- 
panulate, scales about 19, about 3-seriate, stramineous, the inner 
harrowly lance-elliptic, obtuse, smoothish, 2-3-costulate, scarious- 
margined; the intermediate and outer progressively shorter, ovate- 
lanceolate, acute to acuminate, brownish-puberulent; corollas prob- 
ably white, glabrous except at the short limb; proper tube 0.7 
mm. long, throat slightly enlarged, cylindrical, 2.3 mm. long; 
Style-branches filiform, scarcely at all clavellate, achenes 1.5 mm. 
long, fuscous-brown, with lighter-colored obscurely hispidulous ribs; 
Pappus-bristles about 27, delicately capillary, white, essentially 
smooth.— PERU WITHOUT INDICATION OF LocALITY: Mathews (N. Y., 
Phot. Gr.). Like several other specimens of Mathews’s Peruvian 
plants from the herbarium of Meisner, two sheets of this plant, now 
in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, bear a yellow 
label in the hand of Meisner, reading merely “Peruvia Matthews, 
1862.” Alexander Mathews, the well-known collector in Peru (who 
Spelled his name with one #) died in 1841. It has been impossible to 
get information of any subsequent collector in Peru of this name and 
It is accordingly inferred that errors have here arisen in the copying 
of labels, and that these plants were in reality collected by Alexander 
athews about 1835-1840. 
