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attached) sessile, lateral; involucre 9-10 mm. long, its bracts 

 in 5 or 6 series, the outer ovate, acute; the inner linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate. 



Camp La Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, Oriente, Cuba (Shafer 

 8189). 



16. Axastraphia microcephala Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 158. 1866 



Type locality: Eastern Cuba. 



Distribution: Known only from the type specimens collected 

 by Wright. 



17. Anastraphia Rosei sp. no v. 



A shrub with tortuous branches, the young twigs floccose. 

 Leaves broadly elliptic, elliptic-obovate or suborbicular, 10-15 

 mm. long, 8-13 mm. wide, obtuse or nearly truncate at the apex, 

 obtuse or subtruncate at the base, dark green, loosely floccose or 

 becoming glabrate, and finely reticulate-veined above, densely 

 white-tomentulose and with few rather prominent veins beneath, 

 spiny- toothed, with 2 or 3 teeth on each side, the slender tomentu- 

 lose petioles 3-5 mm. long; heads solitary and sessile on short 

 spurs, about 10-flowered; involucre narrowly obconic, 10-11 mm. 

 long, its bracts in about 5 series, all appressed-villous, acute, the 

 outer ovate, the inner linear-lanceolate; achenes densely silky, 

 4 mm. long; pappus yellow-brown, 8 mm. long. 



Hillside, Azua, Santo Domingo, March 18, 1913 (Rose, Fitch 

 & Russell 4023). Related to A. Bachii Urban, of Haiti, which 

 has leaves cuneate at base, smaller heads and less hairy involucre- 

 bracts. 



18. Axastraphia Buchii Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 527. 1908 



Type locality: Dry woods, Poste Coudau, Haiti, at 100 m. 

 elevation. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



19. Axastraphia Northropiaxa Greenm.; Combs, Trans. Acad. 

 Sci. St. Louis 7: 435. pi. 36. 1897 



Anastraphia Northropiana Comhsii Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 417. 

 1903. 



Type locality: Fresh Creek, Andros, Bahamas. 

 Bahama Islaxds: Andros, New Providence, Cat Island. 



