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about 8-12-headed; pedicels 1-2 cm. long; heads 6-8 mm. high and 
equally thick, about 46-flowered; involucre campanulate; scales 
about 20, lance-linear, attenuate, slightly puberulent, mostly 3-nerved 
and 2-costulate; corollas purplish (Weddell) or white (Weberbauer), 
with slender proper tube (1.7 mm. long) and perceptibly enlarged 
cylindrical throat (3.6 mm. long); achenes 2.5 mm. long, hispidulous 
on the angles and faces; pappus-bristles about 18, delicate, white, 
barbellate-— Chlor. And. i. 216, t. 40, f. B (1857).— Junin: near 
Oroya, Dr. & Mrs. J. N. Rose, nos. 18,711 (N. Y.), 18,712 (N. Y.). 
Puno: on moist cliffs around Lake Titicaca, alt. 3900 m., Weddell. 
ANCACHS: in open grassy formation between Samanco and Caraz, 
alt. 3700 m., Dr. Weberbauer, no. 3054 (Berl., fragm. Gr.). [Bolivia.] 
76. E. StrerNBERGIANUM DC. Apparently herbaceous, 4 dm. or 
more in height; stem terete, at first minutely puberulent, at maturity 
glabrate, dark-purple; leaves opposite, ovate, acuminate, rounded at 
the base, incisely serrate-dentate or deeply crenate-dentate (the 
teeth numerous, unequal, often again toothed), membranaceous, 3- 
nerved from the base, sparingly puberulent to glabrous above, scarcely 
paler and somewhat puberulent beneath, 3-5 cm. long, 2.5-4.5 em. 
wide; petiole about 1 cm. long; corymbs dense, rounded; heads about 
28-flowered, pedicellate, about 6 mm. high; involucre campanulate, 
the scales subequal, linear, acutish, about 2-seriate, sparingly puberu- 
lent or subglabrous; corollas white to reddish (Weberbauer), with 
proper tube nearly equalling the cylindric throat, nearly glabrous; 
achenes hispid.— Prod. v. 167 (1836).— ANcacus: at Tallenga, alt. 
600-3800 m., Dr. Weberbauer, no. 2876 (Berl., fragm. Gr.). Lima: 
at Obrajillo, Wilkes Exp. (Gr.); near Huarochirf, alt. 2100-3000 m., 
Hrdlicka (U.S.). JuNIN: near Oroya, alt. 3750 m., Dr. & Mrs. J. N. 
Rose, no. 18,685 (Gr., N. Y.). Cuzco: near Tinta, alt. about 3500 m., 
Cook & Gilbert, no. 213 (U. S.); Ollantaytambo, alt. about 3000 m., 
Cook & Gilbert, no. 331 (U. S.). DEPARTMENT NOT ASCERTAINED: 
among hills in the cordilleras of Peru, Haenke (DC.); at Pachacaya, 
C. H. T. Townsend, no. 1505 (HS : 
is species according to Dr. Weberbauer is locally called hualmi- 
hualmi. He also states that the fresh roots, softened in lukewarm 
Water, are employed as an abortive, and that a tea prepared from the 
leaves is used for kidney and bladder troubles. 
(76a. E. cuecnonopnyttum Less. Linnaea, vi. 105 (1831); 
Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. liv. 363 (1918).— This species has not _ 
been seen from Peru, but as it occurs in the Chilean valleys and also 
without apparent distinction of form on the mountains of Ecuador, 
