84 ROBINSON. 
it seems more than likely that further exploration will show its presence 
in the intermediate country of Peru. 
77, EE. AZANGAROENSE Sch. Bip. ex Wedd. Chlor. And. i. 217 (1857); 
Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. liv. 315 (1918).— Puno: on calcareous 
rock, Azangaro, alt. 4000 m., 28 Feb. 1902, Dr. Weberbauer, no. 468 
(Berl., fragm. Gr.). WITHOUT INDICATION OF DEPARTMENT: de Castel- 
nau acc. to Weddell, |. c. [Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela ace. to Weddell.] 
A species doubtfully distinct from the preceding. 
78. E. 1stnuuMENnse Robinson (p. 20). Slender subscandent 
shrub, glabrous except on the petioles and base of the nerves where 
puberulent, nigrescent in drying; stem terete, pale-brown, internodes 
3-8 cm. long; leaves opposite, ovate-oblong (the uppermost lanceo- 
late), acuminate, slightly cordate at the base, mucronate-serrate, 
thin, 3-5-nerved from the base (the nerves connected by transverse 
veins), 10-12 cm. long, 3-4.5 cm. wide; petiole slender, viscid-tomen- 
tellous, 4-6 mm. long; panicle ovoid, loose, leafy-bracted below; 
pedicels filiform, glabrous, 8-15 mm. long, often with scale-like bract- 
lets; heads about 52-flowered, 7 mm. high, 9 mm. in diameter; invo- 
lucre broadly campanulate; scales about 30, subequal (1-3 of the 
outermost shorter), linear, very acute, glabrous, faintly 1-3-nerved; 
corollas 3 mm. long, white, glabrous, slightly and gradually enlarged 
upward; immature achenes 2 mm. long, apparently glabrous; pappus- 
bristles about 28, white, delicate, nearly smooth.— Puno 
near the Tambo Isilluma, between Sandia and Chunchusnago, alt. 
1000 m., Dr. Weberbauer, no. 1206 (Berl., phot. and fragm. T.). 
In habit and foliage recalling the Brazilian E. laeve DU. 
Sect. IV. Praxewis (Cass.) Benth. (See Robinson, Proc. Am. 
Acad. liv. 318.) 
Key To SPECIES. 
Cauline leaves ovate, petiolate.....- on Des etree One a” Pa ies poe 
Cauline leaves lanceolate to linear, sessile or nearly SO..---- . 
(1820); 
79. E. paucirtorum HBK. Nov. Gen. et Spec. iv. 120 oe 
Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. liv, 319, 343 (1918).— Cuzco: ese na 
alt. 900 m., Cook & Gilbert, no. 1606 (U. S.). PERU WITHO 
CATION OF DEPARTMENT: Mathews, no. 3081 (Gre 120 (1820); 
_ B. xiemromes HBK. Nov. Gen. et Spec. Iv. 
Robinson, Proce. Am. Acad. liv. 319 (1918). 
