860 Britton : Studies of West Indian plants 



one third to one half as long as the blades, the finely reticulate 

 venation much darker in color than the parenchyma; heads 

 several or numerous; peduncles 6 cm. long or less; involucre 

 oblong-cylindric, about i cm. high, its bracts linear, spreading 

 at anthesis, acutish and puberulent at the apex; rays oval to 

 oblong, bluntish or emarginate, 1.5-2 cm. long, strongly veined; 

 disk-corollas tubular-cylindric, narrowed below, 7-10 mm. long, 

 with acute triangular-ovate teeth; anthers and style-branches 

 slightly exserted; achenes linear, 12-16 mm. long, about 1 mm. 

 thick, sparingly pubescent on the angles, the two yellowish awns 

 3-5 mm. long, downwardly barbed. 



Banks at higher altitudes in the Blue Mountains; type col- 

 lected by Forrest Shreve at Cinchona, November, 1905. 



Chaenocephalus propinquus sp. nov. 



A shrub, 2 m. high. Leaves firm in texture, oblanceolate, 

 5-9 cm. long, acute at the apex, cuneately tapering from above 

 the middle to a sessile entire base, sharply and rather coarsely 

 dentate above the middle, smooth on both sides or minutely 

 scabrate-puberulent beneath, the pinnate venation not very prom- 

 inent; inflorescence corymbose, 5-8 cm. broad; peduncles ap- 

 pressed-pubescent, 2-4 cm. long, nearly erect, or narrowly as- 

 cending; heads numerous, turbinate-campanulate, 6-7 mm. high; 

 involucral bracts pubescent, the outer narrowly oblong to lance- 

 olate, obtuse, 5.5 mm. long, the inner broadly oblanceolate, 

 sharply acute, 5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide; corolla 3.5 mm. long, 

 nearly cylindric above the narrowed base, its lobes triangular- 

 ovate, acute; pappus-bristles about one half as long as the corolla; 

 achene cuneate-oblanceolate, 4 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide at the 

 top, scabrous-pubescent, the wings nearly 1 mm. wide above. 



In rocky soil, Lover's Leap, Yardley Chase, Santa Cruz 

 Mountains, at 530 meters altitude {Britton 1144, Sept. 4, 1907; 

 type; Harris 9672). Nearly related to C. venosus Urban, from 

 wet woodlands on the summit of John Crow Peak, at 2000 meters 

 altitude. (See Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 526.) 



15. THE GENUS BADIERA DC. 



Badiera DC. Prodr. 1: 334. 1824 

 Type species: Badiera Penaea (L.) DC. 



Leaves obovate to oblong, 1-4 cm. long, obtuse or emarginate. 

 Leaves obovate. 



Pubescent; leaves 2-2.5 cm. long, papillose-scabrous. 1. B. Penaea. 



