38 ROBINSON 
scales linear-cuneate, subtruncate-obtuse, scarious, stramineous, 
dark or purplish toward the tip, minutely ciliate at the apex, 3- 
ribbed, the outer gradually shorter, their tips foliaceous, triangular, 
squarrose, bearing on the back some puberulence and reddish-orange 
glands, 3-5-ribbed; corollas 4-5 mm. long, tube subcylindric, per- 
ceptibly ampliated, sprinkled with reddish-orange glands, teeth 0.5 
mm. long, similarly gland-bearing on the back; achenes ‘(not quite 
ripe) 2.5-3 mm. long, dark, subglabrous except for the scabrid straw- 
colored angles; pappus-bristles 20-25, pale straw-colored.—Hieron. 
in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxii. 754 (1897); R. E. Fries, Arkiv fr Bot. v. | 
no. 13, 8 (1906). 
Tarisa: Chaco, Tatarenda, R. E. Fries, nos. 1438 and 1502, ace. to Fries, 
[Northern Argent. | 
Not seen; character here condensed from original diagnosis. 
5. E. connivens Rusby. Shrubby; stems terete, at length 
covered by a brownish-gray cortex; branches opposite, ascending, 
scabrid-pubescent, the hairs attenuate, pale, spreading or more often 
curved upward; leaves chartaceous, opposite, ovate-lanceolate, at- 
tenuate to an often obtusish apex, cuneate to a nearly sessile base, 
rather coarsely and sharply 2-5-toothed on each side, bright green 
and scabrid-pubescent on both surfaces, 3-nerved essentially from 
the base; 6-9 em. long 1.8-2.5 em. wide; corymbs compound, dense, 
leafy-bracted at base; pedicels short, thick; heads about 12 mm. 
long, about 5 mm. in diameter, about 22-flowered; involucral scales 
about 25, closely and regular! y imbricated, rounded or obtuse, ciliate, 
green and purple; corollas 6 mm. long, glabrous, presumably purple; 
achenes slender, tapering downward, about 4 mm. long, the faces 
black and smooth, the ribs stramineous, upwardly scabrid; pappus- 
bristles about 36, unequal, whitish, barbellate—Mem. Torr. Bot. 
Club, vi. pt. 1, 57 (1896); Ktze. Rev. Gen. iii 147 (1898). E. 
paucidentatum Sch.-Bip. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xii. 81 (1865), & Linnaea, 
xxxiv. 535 (1865-66), without character, not Sch.-Bip. ex Bak. in 
Mart. FI. Bras. vi. pt. 2, 297 (1876). E. cochabambense Hieron. in 
Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxii. 745 (1897). E. cochabambana Ktze. 1. ¢., 
by obvious clerical error. 
CocHABAMBA: Vic. Cochabamba, 1891, Bang, no. 1114 (Gr., N. Y., Oe oe 
Mo.); alt. 3000 m., 26 Mar. 1892, Kuntze (N. Y.). , 9700 
La Paz: Prov. Larecaja: on schist in temperate region, alt. 2600- 
.m., between Munaypata and Challasuyo, Mandon, no. 248 (Gr., N. Y.). if 
Santa Cruz: Sierra de Santa Cruz, alt. 2000 m., Kuntze, ace. to himsell, 
Rev. Gen. iii. pt. 2, 147 (1898). 
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