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what pubescent below, essentially glabrous towards the summit, leafy, 
terminating in a simple short-bracted raceme; leaves narrowly oblanceo- 
late to oblong, serrulate to nearly entire, ciliate towards the narrowed 
sessile base otherwise nearly glabrate, 1-nerved, pinnately veined, 4 to 
6 cm. long, 7 to 11 mm. wide, the lower ones mostly obtuse, the others 
acute or acutish; inflorescence erect, glabrous, 6 to 12 cm. long; pedi- 
cels solitary, opposite, soon spreading, at length deflexed as well as 
recurved, 1 to 1,5 em. long, much exceeding the short ovate subtending 
bracts (2 to 8 mm. in length); calyx-lobes broad, oval, in young fruit 
3 mm. long, three fourths as wide, faintly several-nerved from the base, 
obtuse or brought to a very short acutish point; corolla purplish blue, 
1,5 cm. long (from the base to the end of the lower lip), glabrous or 
nearly so on the outer surface, granular-puberulent within and cilio- 
late; lobes of the lower lip suborbicular; capsule globose, glabrous, 
nodding on the recurved pedicels, tipped with a hooked more or less 
persistent style. 
Hab. in Cuba in “waste grass lands, old roads ete., in dry 
upland soil.” Cieneguita, 6 Jun. 1895: R. Combs n. 130. 
Obs. This number, which was at first taken at the Gray Herbarium 
for A. angustifoha, is now regarded as the type of the new species here 
characterized. It is identical with at least a portion of Wright’s n. 3018, 
and his no. 3019, although a little more pubescent and too young for certain 
identification, is probably the same. A. cubensis differs from A. angustifolia 
Benth. in its pubescence, obtuse lower leaves, broad calyx-lobes, and short 
bracts. The bracts in A. angustifolia are foliaceous, generally exceeding 
the pedicels, and passing insensibly into the foliar leaves, while in A. 
eubensis the transition from leaves to bracts is tolerably abrupt. 
(B. L. Rozınson.) 
Mikania polycephala Urb. (n. sp.) ramis junioribus subteretibus, 
obsolete v. vix striatis, pilis brevissimis scabriusculis; pseudostipulis 
nullis; foliis 8S—3 mm. longe petiolatis, ovatis usque elliptico-oblongis, 
basi obtusiusculis v. obtusis, antice acuminatis v. breviter et sensim 
angustatis, apice ipso obtuso, 6—2,5 cm. longis, 2,5—1,3 cm. latis, 
margine subintegris, nervis lateralibus ad et supra basin 4 longitrorsis, 
coriaceis v. chartaceo-coriaceis, supra obsolete scabriusculis; inflores- 
centiis terminalibus et lateralibus pannieulatis, e racemis simplieibus v. 
infimis iterum ramulosis compositis, bracteis pedicellos suffulcientibus; 
capitulis in quoque racemo 10—18, pedicellis 1,5—2 mm. longis; in- 
volucri squamis exterioribus apice obtusis, interioribus fere duplo lati- 
oribus apice rotundatis, 3 mm. longis; pappi setis ca. 40, ad apicem non 
v. vix incrassatis; corolla vix supra 2 mm. longa, ad medium in limbum 
vix crassiorem eylindraceum abeunte, lobis breviter oblongis obtusis, limbo 
integro subaequilongis erectis; achaeniis glanduliferis, caeterum glabris. 
