eo: ae ROBINSON 
Dept. NoT INDICATED: Kuntze (N. Y.). ‘ 
[Peru.] 
Vernacular name: kinchamali (as reported by Bender ace. to 
Perkins). 
Sect. IV. Praxeris (Cass.) Benth. (See Robinson, Proc. Am. 
Acad. he 318.) 
Key To SprciEs 
a. Involucral gore conspicuously squarrose, the middle and outer with 
DETR TAME oo re Cd es oa Se 57. E. phyllocephalum. 
a. — rea Ps pitneeeey not herbaceous-tipped b. 
s rhombic-ovate; pedicels one-half to two and a half times as 
the involucre c. 
c AE Soe herbs or undershrubs; heads 45-50-flowered d. 
d ceptacle elongate-conical; outer involucral scales lance-ovate, 
attentudta. obsoletely serrulate; decumbent undershrub, mostly 
i high 8. soe clinanthium. 
d. Receptacle hemispherical; outer scales ovate to ovate -oblong, 
ciliate; erect or suberect herb, mostly 3-5 dm. high 
. E. toldense. 
c. Coarsely htegioxge: annual; heads 25-30-flowered.60. E. clematideum 
b. Leaves lin o narrowly oblong; pedicels conspicuously elongated, 
often 5-20 gee as long as the involucre........ 61. EH. kleinioides. 
57. E. phyllocephalum Klatt. Copiously opposite-branched; 
stem terete, slender, soft as if herbaceous (base unknown), sparsely 
sordid-pubescent; internodes 3-9 cm. long; leaves opposite, lanceo- 
late, attenuate to an acute point, rather abruptly cuneate to a sub- 
sessile base, coarsely serrate (the teeth 3-5 on each side), sparingly 
appressed-pubescent above, scarcely paler and sordid-hirsute beneath, 
limp-membranaceous, the largest about 5 cm. long and 1.7 cm. wide; 
heads about 100-flowered, 1 cm. high, 12 mm. in diameter, borne 
solitary or by 2’s or 3’s at the ends of the ascending branches; invol- 
ucre strongly squarrose, the outermost broadly ovate, herbaceous, 
the intermediate with dilated somewhat spreading herbaceous apical 
appendage, the inner with the somewhat expanded apical appendage 
erect, ciliolate, diaphanous; corollas purple, 5.5 mm. long, glabrous; 
achenes 3.6 mm. long, slender, the faces dark, smooth, the angles 
lighter-colored, sparingly upwardly hispid; pappus-bristles 27. 
—Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Vienna, ix. 358 (1894). 
Cuuaquisaca: d’Orbigny, no. 1226 (Gr.). é 
58. E. conoclinanthium Hieron. Undershrub, 1.5-3 dm. high; 
stems several or branched from near the base, curved-ascending, 
sometimes rooting at the lower nodes, leafy to the middle, subterete, 
mostly purplish, subappressed-pubescent (the hairs upturned, at- 
