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Anastraphia mantuensis C. Wright; Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 



158. 1866 



Type locality: Pine lands near Mantua, Cuba. 

 Distribution: Pine lands and rocky hillsides, near Mantua. 

 Province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba. 



3. Anastraphia montana sp. nov, 



A depressed, spreading or prostrate shrub, the young twigs 

 white-floccose. Leaves oblong, or oblong-oblanceolate, 2-4 cm. 

 long, 8-16 mm. wide, coriaceous, sharply spinulose-dentate all 

 around, dark green, shining and densely reticulate-veined above, 

 white-floccose beneath, obtuse or acutish at the apex, the floccose 

 petioles 1-2 mm. long; heads solitary at the ends of branches; 

 involucre campanulate about 2.5 cm. high, its bracts rigid, 

 somewhat spreading, in about 8 series, the outer ovate to lanceo- 

 late, slightly lanate, acute, the inner linear-lanceolate, acuminate 

 glabrous achenes linear, narrowed at base, densely appressed- 

 pubescent, 6 mm. long; pappus light brown, spreading, about 

 twice as long as the achene. 



Top of Sierra Caliente, south of Sumidero, Pinar del Rio, 



Cuba, August, 1912 (Shafer 13781). 



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4. Anastraphia Cowellii sp. nov. 



A shrub, 2 m. high, the young twigs lanate-puberulent. 

 Leaves oblong, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, 6-15 mm. wide, coriaceous, 

 sharply spinulose-dentate, green, glabrous, shining and indistinctly 

 veined, but wrinkled above, brownish-floccose beneath, mostly 

 obtuse at the apex, obtuse or narrowed at the base, the petioles 

 1-4 mm. long; heads solitary or rarely 2 together; involucre 

 narrowly campanulate, about 3 cm high, its bracts in 7 or 8 

 series, the outermost ovate, lanate, the middle ones lanceolate, the 

 inner linear-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous; corollas orange, 2 

 cm. long; achenes linear, 6-7 mm long, densely pubescent; pappus 

 brownish, spreading, about 3 times as long as the achene. 



Rocky hills, palm barren, city of Santa Clara, Cuba (Britton 

 & Cozvell, 10183, type); same locality (Britton & Wilson 6073); 

 rocky places in savanna, Queen City to Minas, Camaguey, Cuba 

 {Shafer 2Q27) ; savanna near Camaguey (Britton & c 'owell 132 f8 . 



5. Anastraphia attenuata sp. nov. 



A shrub about 2.5 cm. high, the young twigs densely lanate. 

 Leaves oblong to oblanceolate, 1.5-5 cm ' l n g> 8-17 mm. wide, 



