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plinerved, punctate, dull green both sides, glabrous; heads in 

 dense terminal panicles of about 8 or 10, equaling or slightly ex- 

 ceeding the leaves ; pedicels sparsely hispidulous, 1-2 mm. long ; 

 heads 6 mm. wide; disk turbinate, 6 mm. high, 3.5 mm. wide; 

 involucre about 5-seriate, graduated, 5 mm. high, the phyllaries 

 lance-ovate (outer) to oblong, acute to acuminate, appressed, 

 indurated and scarious-margined with dark subherbaceous tips, 

 sparsely glandular-hispidulous at apex; rays 2, white, oval, tri- 

 denticulate, 3.2 mm. long; disk-corollas 3, hispid-pilose at base of 

 throat, 4.5-4.8 mm. long, the slender tube 1.5 mm., the lanceolate 

 recurved teeth 2-2.5 mm - l n & > achenes oblong-cylindric, 5-angled, 

 hispidulous, 2 mm. long ; pappus dull white, 4 mm. long, the outer 

 bristles shorter. 



On dryish rocks, Camp La Gloria, across Sierra Moa, to Moa 

 Bay, Oriente (Shafer 8280). 



Readily recognized by its small crowded obovate leaves. 



Gundlachia cubana Britton & Blake, sp. nov. 



Low shrub, growing in clumps, branched, more or less resi- 

 nous, the stem stoutish, densely tuberculate on the angles, densely 

 leafy. Leaves narrowly oblanceolate, 1.7-2.7 cm. long, 2.5-4 

 mm. wide, acute, narrowed to the sessile base, alternate, coria- 

 ceous, entire, i-nerved, punctate, glabrous, dull green ; panicles 

 terminal, sessile, about 8-headed, equaled or slightly exceeded by 

 the leaves; pedicels 1 to 8 mm. long; heads turbinate, about 7 

 mm. wide ; disk 6 mm. high, 4-5 mm. wide ; involucre about 

 4-seriate, graduated, 4.5 mm. high, the phyllaries lance-ovate, 

 acuminate, indurated, scarious-margined, the subherbaceous 

 glandular-hispidulous and ciliolate tips somewhat recurved in 

 age; rays 4, white, oval, 4 mm. long; disk-corollas 5, sparsely 

 pilose at base of throat, 4.5 mm. long, the tube 1.5 mm., the teeth 

 2.2 mm.; achenes obovoid, densely hispid-pilose, 1-1.4 mm. long; 

 pappus dull white, 4 mm. long, the outer bristles shorter. 



Northern Oriente. Type collected by water near mangroves, 

 mouth of Rio Yamaniguey {Shafer 4255). 



Erigeron Taylori Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



Diminutive, glabrous. Scapes filiform, prostrate or spread- 

 ing, only 3 cm. long or less, monocephalous, bearing several ob- 

 long or oblanceolate scales about 1 mm. long ; basal leaves tufted, 

 spatulate, entire, obtuse or rounded, the blade 2-4 mm. broad, the 

 slender petiole 15 mm. long or less; involucre 2 mm. long, its 

 linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate bracts rerlexed in age and 



