Britton: Studies of West Indian plants 379 



? Bignonia microphylla A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cub. n: 104. 

 1850. Not Lam. 



Type locality: Matanzas, Cuba. 

 Distribution: Coastal thickets, vicinity of Matanzas, Cuba. 



Tabebuia platyantha (Griseb.) 



Tecoma platyantha Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. 447. 1864. 

 Tecoma Brittonii Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 496. 1908. 

 Tecoma Brittonii decussata Urban, loc. cit. 497. 1908. 



Type locality: On rocks, St. James, Jamaica. 



Distribution: Rocky woodlands, central parishes of Jamaica. 



Tabebuia bahamensis (Northrop) 



Bignonia pentaphylla L. Sp. PI., ed. 2, 870. 1763 (as to the 



Bahama plant of Catesby). Not Tabebuia pentaphylla (Juss.) 



Hemsl. 

 Tecoma bahamensis Northrop, Mem. Torr. Club 12: 65. pi. 15. 



1902. 



Type locality: Near Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas, 



Distribution: Bahamas; Cuba. 



37. THE GENUS ANASTRAPHIA D. Don 



Type species: Anastraphia ilicifolia D. Don. 



Founded on a specimen in the Lambertian Herbarium said 

 to have come from South America; the plant was correctly 

 attributed to Cuba by De Candolle (Prodr. 7: 26. 1838). 



1. Involucral bracts straight, erect or nearly so. 

 Involucre 2.5-3 cm. long. 



At least some of the leaves spinulose-dentate. 

 Involucre campanulate. 



All the involucral bracts lanate. 1. A. ilicifolia. 



Only the outer bracts lanate, the inner glabrous. 

 Leaves distinctly reticulate-veined above. 

 All the involucral bracts linear-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate and erect. 2. A. mantuensis. 

 Outer involucral bracts lanceolate, 



merely acute, all somewhat spreading. 3. A. monlana. 

 Leaves very indistinctly reticulate-veined 



above, but wrinkled; outer bracts ovate. 4. -4. Cowellii. 

 Involucre long-attenuate at base, all its many 



bracts lanate. z. A. altenuala. 



