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tenuate, purple-jointed; leaves lance-oblong, acutish, cuneate at 
base, finely to coarsely serrate, sparsely appressed-puberulent chiefly 
on the nerves and veins, green both sides, 1.5-3.5 em. long, 7-16 mm. 
wide, 3-nerved from slightly above the base; cymes simple or com- 
pound, terminal, 3-9-headed; pedicels filiform, 6-22 mm. long, 
flexuous, bracteolate; heads about 45-50-flowered, 8-10 mm. high 
and nearly as thick; involucre campanulate, 3-5-seriate, purple- 
tinged; scales appressed, thin, graduated, ovate to oblong, the outer 
acute, the inner obtuse to rounded, but all tending to be mucronate; 
corollas slender, tubular-subinfundibuliform, about 5 mm. long, 
deep-purple toward the limb and dorsally granulated on the teeth; 
achenes dark, concolorous, 1.8-2 mm. long, 5-angled but often some- 
what compressed, upwardly hispid on the angles; pappus-bristles 
about 30, yellowish-white—Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xl. 388 
(1908). E. erythrolepis Sch.-Bip. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xii. 82 (1865), 
& Linnaea, xxxiv. 535 (1865-66), name only. 
La Paz: Prov. Larecaja: in grassy places of the temperate region on Ca- 
targuata Hill, in open ground near Challapampa in the vicinity of Sorata, 
alt. 2700 m., Mandon, no. 261 (Gr., N. Y.). 
IJA! in open moist stoney places near Pinos, alt. 220 m., Fiebrig, 
nos. 3152 (Gr.), 3152a acc. to Hieron. l. c. 
OUTHERN Bonivra (dept. not indicated): Fiebrig, nos. 3514 and 3515 ace. 
to Hieron, l. ¢. 
59. E. toldense Hieron. Perennial herb, 3-5 dm. high, hirsute- 
villous, the hairs spreading, jointed; root a fascicle of slender but 
tough fibres; stems terete, ascending, leafy; leaves opposite, lance- 
ovate, narrowed to an obtusish tip, cuneate to a short petiole, serrate 
(the teeth only 2-6 on each side), membranaceous, 3-nerved from the 
base, mostly 4-5 em. long, 1.6-2.2 cm. wide, sparsely villous-hirsute 
on both surfaces; petiole 6-13 mm. long; inflorescence terminal, 
mostly a trifid compound cyme, at first rather dense and rounded, 
at length open, flattish; heads about 50-flowered, 1 cm. high, 8 mm. 
thick; pedicels 2-10 mm. long, grayish-pubescent; involucre cam- 
panulate, about 3-seriate; scales ovate-oblong to (the inner) linear- 
spatulate, obtuse, mucronate, purple-tinged, mostly 3-nerved, cilio- 
late but otherwise glabrous; corollas smooth, about 4.5 mm. long, 
gradually enlarged from near the base to a subeylindric throat, lilac- 
purple at least toward the limb; style-branches long, lilac-purple, 
- searcely clavate; pappus-bristles about 22, yellowish-white, slightly 
scabrid, perceptibly thickened toward the summit, nearly as long as 
the corolla; achenes slender, about 2.6 mm. long, hispidulous on the 
angles.—Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xl. 378 (1908. 
