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Anastraphia cuneifolia Grecr.m. Bull. X. Y. Bot. Card. 4: 126. 



1905. 



Type locality: Andros Island, Bahamas. 



Distribution: Andros, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Fortune Island, 

 Crooked Island, Acklin's Island, Great Exuma, Caicos Islands, 

 Mariguana, Dellis Cay, Inagua. 



I cannot distinguish, specifically, from this species, a plant of 

 the Sierra Nipe, Oriente, Cuba {Shafer 3185). 



10. Anastraphia calcicola sp. now 



A shrub, 1 1 .5 m. high, the young twigs lanate, the branches 

 stiff. Leaves cuneate-obovate or nearly elliptic, small, 5-10 mm. 

 long, nearly as wide as long, sharply 1-3-toothed on each margin, 

 coriaceous, obtuse or subtruncate at the apex, glabrous and densely 

 reticulate-veined above, white-lanate beneath, the petioles about 

 1 mm. long; heads solitary on short branchlets; involucre 1.5-2 

 cm. high, its bracts in about 4 series, loosely and sparingly lanate, 

 the outer ovate, acute, the inner narrowly lanceolate, acuminate; 

 achenes linear, 4 mm. long, densely pubescent; pappus yellowish- 

 brown, about 3 times as long as the achene. 



Coral rock hillsides and coastal cliffs, United States Naval 



Station, Guantanamo Bay, Oriente, Cuba {Britton 2042, type; 



2220) . 



11. Anastraphia parvifolia sp. nov. 



An upright shrub, 2 m. high, the young twigs lanate. Leaves 

 oblong to oblong-obovate, small, 5-10 mm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, 

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

 dark green, smooth and shining above, white-lanate beneath, the 

 margin repand-denticulate, the slender petiole 1-3 mm. long; 

 involucre about 2.4 cm. long, its bracts in 5 or 6 series, the outer 

 ovate to ovate-lanceolate, loosely lanate, acute, the inner linear- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, with lanate tips; corolla orange-yellow, 

 18 mm. long; achenes linear, densely pubescent, about 3 mm. 

 long; pappus yellowish-brown, about 5 times as long as the achene. 



Dense thickets in barren savannas southeast of Holguin, 



Oriente, Cuba {Shafer 2Qj8). 



12. Anastraphia Wilsoni sp. now 



An intricately branched shrub 2 m. high, the young twigs 

 somewhat lanate. Leaves oblong to oblong-obovate, subcoria- 



