J. N. Rose: Species sessiliflorae mexicanae Parasolae generis generice. 249 



[Buphthalmum asperrimum Spreng.; Anomostephium buphthalmoides DC, 

 Wedelia buphthalmoides Griseb.] of the Windward Islands, and hitherto 

 confused with it. 



30. Anastraphia cuneifolia Greenraan, N. L. Britton, 1. c, p. 126. 



Shrub 1 — 2 m high, much-branched; stem and branches covered 

 with a light gray bark. Leaves obovate-cuneate, 1 — 2 cm long, 0,5—1,2 cm 

 broad, revolute-margined, sparingly spinulose-dentate in the terminal 

 portion, entire and narrowed below the middle into the petiole, slightly 

 puberulent above in the early stages but soon glabrate and rather con- 

 spicuously reticulate-veined, densely and permanently white-tomentose 

 beneath; petioles 3 — 5 mm long, tomentose; heads few, about 2 cm long; 

 sessile, mostly terminating the ultimate branchlets, 5-flowered; involucre 

 narrowly campanulate, 8,5—10 mm long; bracts of the involucre 5—6- 

 seriate, triangular-ovate to lance-linear, acute, externally arachnoid- 

 tomentulose, brownish, slightly spreading at maturity: mature achenes 

 3,5—4 mm long, pubescent; pappus about 13 mm in length, persistent, 

 tawny. 



Bahamas Islands. Camfleld Bay to Cabbage Pond, Inagua (Nash 

 & Taylor 1295, October 22, 1904. type; hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard. and hb- 

 Gray); Miner's Tent to Balsam Hill, Inagua (Nash & Taylor, 1259). 



The species here described is most nearly related to A. intertexla 

 Wr. ; the chief differences being the obovate-cuneate leaves with fewer 

 spinulose teeth, shorter heads, involucre and pappus, and 5 instead of 

 10 flowers in the head. 



LIX. J. N. Rose, Species sessiliflorae mexicanae Parasolae 

 generis generice commutatae atque novae. 



(Ex: J. N. Rose, Contributions of Mexican and Central American plants, 

 no. 5, in Contr. Unit. St. JSat. Herb., X, pt. 3 [1906], pp. 103—107. 



1. Parosela insignis (Hemsley) Rose, 1. c, p. 103. 

 Dalea insignis (Hemsley), Diag. PI. Nov., I, 7; 1878. 



2. Parosela glaberrima (S. Wats.) Rose, 1. c, p. 103. 



Dalea glaberrima S. Wats., Proc. Am. Acad., XXII, 470; 1887. 



3. Parosela polyphylla (Mart. & Gal.) Rose, 1. c, p. 104. 

 Dalea polyphylla Mart. & Gal., Bull. Acad. Brux., X s , 44; 1843. 



4. Parosela citriodora (Willd.) Rose. 1. c, p. 104. 

 Dalea ciiriodvra Willd.. Sp. PI.. Ill, 1339; 1801. 



5. Parosela mucronata (DC.) Rose, 1. c, p. 104. 

 Dalea mucronata DC, Prod., II, 246; 1825. 



6. Parosela pectinata (Kunth) Rose, 1. c, p. 104. 

 Dalea pectinata Kunth, Mimos. 169, pi. 49; 1819. 



