CHAPTALIA. 195 
C. SUBCORDATA. Large plants, without rootstock but with 
4 to 1 inch of leafy stem above ground: leaves ample, 5 to 8 
inches long, very thin, glabrous above, thinly hoary-tomentose 
and permanently so beneath, of an unusual type of the lyrate 
in form, a large subcordate-oval terminal part often 4 inches 
long and 2 in breadth occupying the upper half, below this a 
broadly winged petiole, all the margins lightly and remotely 
crenate and with a rather close denticulation everywhere: scape 
usually solitary, not dilated under the involucre, this not large, 
many-bracted and imbricate: immature achenes short-beaked. 
Islands of Porto Rico and St. Croix, the type Ricksecker’s 
n. 447 from St. Croix, as in U. S. Herb., Percy Wilson’s n. 40 
from Porto Rico evidently the same. 
C. FALLAX. Rootstock obsolete ; leaves many, 2 to 4 inches 
long, oblanceolate, somewhat spatulately so, acutish, entire or 
faintly undulate, or obscurely crenate, no denticulation obvious 
deep green and glabrous above, densely and permanently white-, 
tomentose beneath: scapes several, slender, naked, 8 or 10 inches 
high, abruptly dilated under the narrow involucre; bracts of 
this narrowly subulate and subulate-linear, many and much 
imbricated: achenes with a distinct slender beak. 
Vicinity of Baracoa, Cuba, Jan., 1902, Pollard & Palmer, 
n. 86 as in U. S. Herb. The collectors referred this to the 
Floridian C. somentosa, evidently looking to the leaves only. By 
its involucre and achenes it is unmistakably of the other group, 
namely that of Zerria, and not a proper Chaptalia. 
C. PRIMULACEA. Rootstock not thick, upright, somewhat 
tapering and root-like: leaves many, narrowly oblanceolate, 
mostly 3 to 6 inches long, thin, glabrous above, beneath densely 
white-tomentose, but the numerous feather veins somewhat 
glabrate and conspicuous, the outline in no degree lyrate, the 
whole margin lightly repand-crenate one retrorse tooth at base of 
each crenature, the apex cuspidate-mucronate: scape usually 1 
only, 5 to 8 inches high, very slender, naked, abruptly enlarged 
under the small involucre; bracts of this subulate as to the 
outer, the inner narrowly linear, all flocculent: achenes scab- 
rous, the slender beak nearly as long as the body. 
