68 ROBINSON. 
49. E. Cooxm Robinson (p. 9). Shrubby, densely spreading- 
villous, the hairs at first long, soft, and under a lens beautifully purple- 
jointed; stems round, purple, the internodes elongated, sometimes 
13 em. or more in length; branches spreading, usually curved upward, 
bearing about 2 pairs of leaves and terminating in a mostly dense 
trifid corymb; leaves ovate, acuminate, crenate-serrate except at the 
rounded, or subcordate base, dull-green and sparingly pubescent 
above, slightly paler, sordid-villous and somewhat glandular-atomif- 
erous beneath, about 5 cm. long and 3-3.4 cm. wide; petioles 1.2-2 
cm. long; corymbs trifid, dense; pedicels short, woolly, with long soft 
brown and jointed hairs; heads crowded, about 20-flowered, about 
7 mm. high, 4 mm. in diameter; involucres campanulate, about 3- 
seriate, substramineous, the scales about 19, lance-oblong, acute, 
mostly 2-ribbed and 3-veined, dorsally pubescent, the innermost 
narrower, less pubescent, obtusish or rounded at the more or less 
scarious summit; corollas apparently white, hispidulous on the limb, 
otherwise essentially glabrous, about 3.8 mm. long, the proper tube 
only 0.7-0.8 mm. long, much exceeded by the cylindrical throat; 
achenes dark brown, nearly black, 1.5 mm. long, glabrous; pappus- 
bristles about.40, clear white, scarcely roughened.— Cuzco: in the 
Lucumayo Valley, alt. 1800-3600 m., Cook & Gilbert, no. 1352 (U.S., 
phot. Gr.). Junmy: Andamarca, Mathews, no. 1126 (K., phot. and 
fragm. Gr.), a doubtful form with shorter pubescence and more dis- 
tinetly cordate leaves, with crenate rather than serrate margins. 
50. E. marcinatum Poepp. Climbing shrub; branches round, 
slender, divaricate as they leave the stem, but curved-ascending, very 
finely puberulent; internodes 4-7 cm. long; leaves opposite, lance- 
ovate, acuminate, serrate, except at the rounded base, 3-4.5 em. long, 
1-2.4 cm. wide, membranaceous, 3-nerved essentially from the base, 
nerves beneath; 
5-10 mm. long; panicle opposite-bran 
open, about 4 dm. long; heads small, a 
pedicelled, in convex fairly dense terminal corym 
of the finely puberulent composite inflorescence; 1 apie 
about 3-seriate, narrowly oblong, ‘stramineous, the al keane 
obtuse, the outer pubescent: corollas white; sargree 5) Has 
Poepp. in Poepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. ac Spec. m1. 54 (1849). 
uco: in bushy places at Cassapi, August, P — 
Vienna, phot. Gr.). This species has somewha png 
Ophryosporus, into which genus it would fall should the anth 
