70 ROBINSON. 
stalked glands; achenes brown, covered throughout with subglandu- 
lar hairs; pappus-bristles 50-60, yellowish-white.— Hieron. in Engl. 
Bot. Jahrb. xl. 369 (1908).— Amazonas: near Molinopampa east of 
Chachapoyas, alt. 2000-2300 m., Dr. A. Weberbauer, no. 4359. 
Not seen, the description h ere condensed from the original diagno- 
sis by Hieronymus. 
55. E. cHAMAEDRIFOLIUM HBK. Nov. Gen et Spec. iv. 113 (1820); 
Benth. Pl. Hartw. 135 (1844); Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. liv. 353 
(1918).— Prura? Originally collected “on the whole range of moun- 
tains” between Gonsanama, Ecuador, and Ayavaca, Peru, obviously 
close to the boundary between the two countries, Humboldt & Bon- 
pland no. 3485 (Par., phot. Gr.). A specimen collected in the moun- 
tains of Loja, Ecuador, by Hartweg, and although unnumbered 
doubtless being a portion of his no. 759 cited by Bentham, I. c., is in 
the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. [Ecuador.] 
56. E. Marrusmromium Hieron. Grayish villous-hirsute herb; 
stems terete, purplish, covered with a loose, at first spreading, at 
length mostly deflexed pubescence of slender white hairs; leaves 
opposite, broadly ovate, obtuse, crenulate except at the subcordate 
base, 1-1.5 em. long 8-13 mm. wide, thickish, above finely bullate- 
reticulate with depressed veins, gray-pubescent, beneath shaggy gr@Y- 
velvety, 3(-5)-nerved nearly from the base; petiole 3-5 mm. long, 
shaggy-villous; corymbs trifid, dense, the parts rounded; heads about 
20-flowered, subsessile or shortly pedicelled; involucre campanulate, 
3-4-seriate, brownish-stramineous; scales mostly ovate-elliptical, 
thin, rounded at the summit; corollas 3.5 mm. long, glabrous, s ; 
enlarged upward; achenes (young) 2.2 mm. long, stramineous, . 
length turning dark-brown, slightly hispid toward the summit; a: 
pus-bristles about 30, bright white, nearly equalling the ieee 
Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxxvi. 466 (1905).— CasJAMARCH: 
tween Chota and Cutervo, June, 1879, von Jelski, no. 799 (Ber!-, 
fragm. Gr.). 
