78 ROBINSON. 
petiole 7-11 mm. long, puberulent and sparingly muriculate; partial 
inflorescences rounded moderately dense fastigiately branched 
corymbs; heads about 24-flowered, 1 cm. long; pedicels filiform, 6-10 
mm. long, bearing a filiform bractlet; involucral scales about 24, 
narrowly lance-linear, unequal but little imbricated, acute, mostly 
3-nerved and 2-costulate, purplish-green, dorsally granular-pulveru- 
lent; corollas about 7.8 mm. long, deep rose-colored, gradually and 
but little enlarged upward, glabrous; style-branches subuniformly 
filiform, not distinctly clavate; achenes (still immature) 3 mm. long, 
beset with sessile or subsessile glands; pappus-bristles about 27, — 
white, scabrid, nearly equalling the corolla.— Puno: Cuyocuyo, 
Prov. Sandia, in bushy places, alt. 3100 m., Weberbauer, no. 860 (Berl., 
phot. and fragm. Gr.). 
66. E, smmuzans Robinson (p. 31). Herbaceous or shrubby, 1 
m. high, exceedingly similar in habit and foliage to the preceding; 
leaves smaller, 5-7 cm. long, 1.3-2.5 em. wide, acute at base, scarcely 
or not at all punctate beneath, feather-veined, some of the lower 
lateral veins (often 2-3 on each side) somewhat more prominent than 
the others; petiole not at all muriculate; involucral scales mostly 
1-ribbed, the upper part of softer texture, the outer scales somewhat 
pubescent and ciliate toward the base.— AncacHs: among bushes 
in the gorge of a brook on the slopes of the Cordillera Blanca, above 
Caraz, alt. 3200-3600 m., 9 June, 1903, Weberbauer, no. 3253 (Berl., 
phot. and fragm. Gr.); among small bushes on a brook, above Ocros, 
Proy. Cajatambo, alt. 3300 m., 2 Apr. 1903, Weberbauer, no. 2766 
(Berl., phot. and fragm. Gr.). 
67. B. iieecaieeaae Hieron. Low, much branched, scarcely 
lignescent, 1.54 dm. high; stems round, covered with dark gua 
lated stiffish hairs; leaves opposite, subsessile or on very short pe 5 
oles (scarcely 2 mm. in length), broadly ovate, cordate, short-aculm 
nate, chartaceous, somewhat shallowly crenate, dull ye ee 
drying dark, when young sparingly beset on both surfaces pee ak 
the nerves with rigid hairs, later glabrate above, somewhat 9-1 
at most 2 cm. long, 18 mm. wide; corymbs or cymes loose, tenia 
pedicels sometimes as much as 5 cm. long; hea were 
involucre campanulate; the scales subequal, little — tat 
20, dull-green, lanceolate, acuminate, mucronate, Vl! ad pt 
“ ointed, 
sparingly villous dorsally on the upper part, the hairs J : 
ous, hyaline; corollas yellowish-white after drying, gl sigh 
4.5 mm. long, the slender proper tube about eq 
throat; achenes dark, roughened on the upper pa 
