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long, the upper smaller, lanceolate, acuminate, sessile, or half-clasping the 

 stem; heads few; involucre about 3.5 cm. high, the outermost bracts spinulose- 

 tipped, the inner acuminate; flowers pink; pappus white, long-plumose; 

 achenes about 5 mm. long. 



Pine-hinds, Abaco and Great Bahama : Florida. Pine-land Thistle. 



36. ANASTRAPHIA D. Don, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 16: 295. 1830. 



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Shrubs or trees, with alternate leaves, and terminal discoid heads of 

 tubular, perfect and fertile flowers. Involucre campanulate or turbinate, its 

 bracts imbricated in several or many series, appressed or recurved, the outer 

 gradually shorter than the inner. Receptacle flat or nearly so, naked. Corolla- 

 limb scarcely expanded, 5-parted, the lobes narrow. Anthers sagittate at the 

 base, the auricles elongated. Style-branches short. Achenes linear, villous or 

 pubescent. Pappus of 1 or 2 series of filiform bristles. [Greek, turned back- 

 ward.] About 20 species, natives of the West Indies. Type species: Anast- 

 raphia ilicifolia D. Don. 



Bracts of the involucre recurved. 1. A. Xorthropiana. 



Bracts of the involucre strictly erect. 2. A. bahamensis. 



1. Anastraphia Northropiana Greenm. Trans. Acad. St. Louis 7: 435. 1897. 



An irregularly branched shrub, 1-2 m. high, or, on the coast of southern 

 Cuba becoming a tree up to 10 m. high, with a trunk 2 dm. in diameter, the 

 bark rough, the slender twigs densely white-tomentose. Leaves oblong to 

 elliptic or obovate, 1-4 em. long, coriaceous, obtuse at the apex, narrowed or 

 obtuse at the base, serrate with few spinulose-tipped teeth, or entire, glabrous 

 above, densely white-tomentose beneath, short-petioled; involucre campanulate, 

 12-15 mm. high, its bracts pubescent, the inner linear, acute, reflexed, the 

 outer gradually smaller; flowers 8-10, orange, about 3 cm. long; achenes 

 villous, 3 mm. long; pappus tawny, 12-16 mm. long. 



Low coppices and pine-lands, Andros, New Providence and Cat Island : Cuba. 

 North hop's Anastraphia. Candlewood. 



^ 2. Anastraphia bahamensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 415. 1903. 



Anastraphia cuneifolia Greenm. Bull. X. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 126. 1905. 



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 conspicuously reticulate-veined, 

 densely and permanently white-tomentose beneath; petioles 3-5 mm. long, 

 tomentose; heads few, about 2 cm. long, sessile, mostly terminating the ulti- 

 mate branchlets, 5-flowered; involucre narrowly campanulate, 8.5-10 mm. long; 

 bracts of the involucre 5-6-seriate, triangular-ovate to lance-linear, acute, ex- 

 ternaly arachnoid-tomentulose, brownish, slightly spreading at maturity; 

 mature achenes 3.5-4 mm. long, pubescent; pappus about 13 nun. in length, 

 persistent, tawny. 



Low coppices and scrub-lands, Andros, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Great Exuma, 

 Crooked, Fortune and Acklin'a [elands, Marignana, Dellls Cay, Caieoe Islands .mil 

 Inagua : Cuba. Reported by Hitchcock and by Mrs. Northrop :is A. paucifloscula 

 C. Wright, an unpublished name. Bahama Anastraphia. Carrajo iusn. 



