114 Britton: Cuban Plants New to Science 



long, 6-10 mm. long, 2-3.5 m " 1 broad, acute at the apex, smooth 

 or nearly so, obscurely nerved, sessile, the margin more or less 

 revolute; corolla white, the tube about 1 mm. long, the lobes 

 elliptic-ovate, about as long as the tube ; capsule circumscissile. 



Loma de Motembo, Santa Clara {Leon, Edmund & Fortun 

 8601). 



Family CARDUACEAE 



Aster Leonis Britton, sp. nov. 



Branched, 3 dm. high, the branches slender, densely short- 

 pubescent. Leaves finely pubescent and scabrous, those of the 

 branches linear or linear-oblong, entire, acute or acuminate, 'ses- 

 sile, 2-5 cm. long, those of the branchlets similar, much smaller; 

 heads mostly solitary at the ends of the branchlets ; involucre 

 subhemispheric, 4-5 mm. high, its bracts linear-spatulate, ciliate, 

 their green tips acutish; rays pink, about 1.5 cm. long. 



Marshes, west of Batabano, Havana {Leon & Cazanas 5753). 



Gundlachia apiculata Britton & Blake, sp. nov. 



Shrub 1 meter high, resinous, the stout angulate stem branched 

 above, tuberculate-strigillose, the branches erect. Leaves oblong- 

 oblanceolate, 2.2-3.2 cm. long, 5-7 mm. wide, apiculate at the 

 rounded apex, cuneate at base, alternate, sessile, coriaceous, en- 

 tire, triplinerved and somewhat reticulate, punctate, more or less 

 vernicose-resinous ; heads about 4 in a terminal cluster, equaled 

 by the leaves ; disk turbinate, 5-6 mm. high, 3.5 mm. wide ; invo- 

 lucre about 4-seriate, graduated, 4-5 mm. high, the phyllaries 

 ovate-oblong, acute, appressed, indurated, scarious-margined, with 

 darker subherbaceous glandular and glandular-ciliolate tips ; rays 

 about 2, white, oval, about 2 mm. long; disk-corollas about 4, 

 sparsely pilose toward tip of tube, 4.8 mm. long, the tube 1.6 mm., 

 the teeth 2 mm. long; achenes (immature) hispidulous, 1.5 mm. 

 long; pappus dull white, 4 mm. long, the outer bristels shorter. 



Camp La Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, Oriente {Shafer8o53). 

 Distinguished by its few heads and elliptic-obovate tripli- 

 nerved leaves. 



Gundlachia foliosa Britton & Blake, sp. nov. 



Shrub, 0.3 to 1.3 meters high, somewhat glutinous, the stout 

 erect striate branches tuberculate-strigillose, densely leafy, simple, 

 or branched only in the inflorescence. Leaves obovate, 1 .2-1.8 

 cm. long, 6-10 mm. wide, usually apiculate at the rounded apex, 

 rounded at base, alternate, erect, uniform, sessile, coriaceous, tri- 



