476 PAUL C. STANDLEY 
and no. 153, from the Paramo de Timotes, State of Tachira, altitude 
3,000 to 3,500 meters. The common name is given as "frailejon." 
The leaves are said to be used for wrapping cheese and butter, to 
secure the flavor and aroma which they impart. 
The species appears to be very closely related to E. grandiflora, 
and Weddell's diagnoses do not afford a satisfactory means of sepa- 
rating the two. E. schultzii has paler wool, however, more con- 
spicuously veined leaves, narrower involucral bracts, and presumably 
Fig. 3. Espeletia schultzii. Paramo de la Cristalina, Venezuela. Photo by 
Dr. A. Jahn. 
a broader inflorescence. Whether this last distinction will hold when 
a large series of specimens is brought together is doubtful. The 
leaves are almost ligulate, not "oblongo-lanceolatis" as Weddell 
described them in his diagnosis, a characterization which is somewhat 
amended in his discussion of the species. In the present specimens 
they are 18 to 31 cm. long and 2.5 to 6 cm. wide, being scarcely at all 
narrowed at the base, slightly broadest above the middle, and froni 
obtuse to acute. The heads vary considerably in size with age, ranging 
from 2 to 3.5 cm. in diameter. The paleae of the disk are nearly linear, 
attenuate, furnished near the apex with numerous short, stiff hairs. 
