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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



[yol. 9. No. 2 



8300 ft. elevation, September 3, 1945, E-5206. Chimborazo: plants sometimes 

 flowering when small but often much branched and forming loose tangled clumps to 

 1 m. high and several meters across or sometimes climbing in shrubs 2-3 m. by 

 means of erratic inflorescence branches, the stems hollow, the leaves deep green 

 above, pale green below, the stipular setae and those at blade-base nigrescent- 

 purple, the corolla white; canon of the Rio Chanchan near Huigra, 4000-4500 ft. 

 elevation (mostly scrub- chaparral with a few seepages and small swamps along 

 the river), May 7-14, 1945, E-3202, E-3000. 



Bowlesia setigera R. & P. 



Canar: flowers greenish, the anthers and spines on fruit purplish; dry chapar- 

 ral scrub and paramo, with occasional moist valleys, near El Tambo (ca. 69 km. 

 by rail south of Sibambe), 9500-10,000 ft. elevation, April 22, 1945, E-2815 (col- 

 lected by Manuel Giler). 



Azorella erenata((R. & P.) Pers. 



Carchi: in dense tufts, the flowers white; paramo on southeast slopes of Vol- 

 can Chiles, 10,800-11,300 ft. elevation, August 17, 1944. E-323. 



Azorella lehmannii Hieron. 



Azuay: leaves shining; Paramo de Tinajillas and surrounding chaparral and 

 forests, 30-50 km. south of Cuenca, 11,000-11,500 ft. elevation, March 17, 1945, E- 

 2275. Canar: plants forming mats to 3 m. in diameter, the perianth segments a 

 dirty (Isabellina) white; uplands called "Huairacaja, " 10-20 km. northeast of 

 Azogues, 11,000 ft. elevation, February 2, 1945, E-1751. This species has not 

 previously been reported from any definite locality. 



Azorella pedunculata (Spreng.) Math. & Const., comb. nov. 

 Bolax pedunculatus Spreng. Sp. Umbell. 10. 1818. 

 Azorella pedunculata Willd.; Spreng. loc. cit. in syn. 



Pectophytum pedunculare Kunth in H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 5: 22. pi. 425. 1821. 

 Azorella peduncularis Wedd. Chlor. And. 2: 196. I860. 



Azuay: dense mats in meadow; along the Rio Matadero west of Cuenca, 10,000- 

 10,500 ft. elevation, March 3, 1945, E-2009. Canar: in large ''cushions" to 2 m. 

 in diameter, the perianth segments yellowish-white; uplands called "Huairacaja," 

 10-20 km. northeast of Azogues, 11,000 ft. elevation, February 2, 1945, E-1752. 

 Carchi: in dense tufts, the flowers white; paramo on southeast slopes of Volcan 

 Chiles, 10,800-11,300 ft. elevation, August 17, 1944, E-321. 



Eryngium foetidum L. 



Santiago-Zamora ("Oriente"): plants common along trails and in openings, 

 pun gent- aromatic, the flowers white, the leaves used to season foods (Jivaro name 

 "Nupa^'or "Nupa"); valleys and cliff-sides of small streams entering Rio Paute, 

 2-3 km. west of Mendez, altitude 1900 ft., December 13, 1944, E-1491. 



Eryngium humile Cav. var. caulescens Jameson. 



Azuay: leaves bright green above, paler below, the bracts pale outside with 

 silvery interior and margins, the flowering heads purple-nigrescent; near Tarqui 

 along the Rio Tarqui, 4-18 km. south of Cuenca, 8300-9000 ft. elevation, March 

 7, 1945, E-2035; bracts green outside, silvery inside, the flower heads deep purple- 

 blue; Parroquia Jose Victor Izquierdo, north of Paute at "Pupazche," valley of 

 the Rio Paute between Paute and Cuenca, 7200-8000 ft. elevation (dry cliffs, 

 rocky hillsides and occasional ravines), April 13, 1945, E-2578 (collected by F. 

 Prieto). Canar: bracts pale green outside, silvery inside, the heads nigrescent- 

 blue; north rim of the valley of the Rfo de Canar between Tambo and Suscal, April 

 23, 1945, E-2788A; same locality but from different colony, E-2788B; flowers deep 



