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Nova geoera et species I. 459 



what pubescent below, essen tially glabrous towards the sumrait, leafy, 

 terminating in a simple short-bracted raceme; leaves narrowly oblanceo- 

 late to oblong, serrulate to nearly entire, ciliate towards the narrowed 

 sessile base otherwise nearly glabrate, 1-nerved, pinnately veined, 4 to 

 6 cm. long, 7 to 11 mm. wide, the lower ones mostly obtuse, the others 

 acute or acutish; inflorescence erect, glabrous, 6 to 12 cm. long; pedi- 

 cels solitary, opposite, soon spreading, at length deflexed as well as 

 recurved, 1 to 1,5 cm. long, much exceeding the short ovate subtending 

 bracts (2 to 8 mm. in length); calyx-lobes broad, oval, in young fruit 

 3 mm. long, three fourths as wide, faintly several-nerved from the base, 

 obtuse or brought to a very short acutish point; coroUa purplish blue, 

 1,5 cm. long (from the base to the end of the lower lip), glabrous or 

 nearly so on the outer surface, granulr- puberulent within and cilio- 

 late; lobes of the lower lip suborbiciar; capsule globose, glabrous, 

 nodding on the recurved pedicels, tipped with a hooked more or less 

 persistent style. 



Hab. in Cuba in "waste grass lands, old roads etc., in dry 

 upland seil." Cieneguita, 6 Jun. 1895: R. Combs n. 130. 



Obs. This number, which was at first taken at the Gray Herbarium 

 for . angustifolia^ is now regarded as the type of the new species here 

 characterized. It is identical with at least a portion of Wright's n. 3018, 

 and bis no. 3019, although a little more pubescent and too young for certain 

 identification , is iirol^ably tho same. A. cuhensis differs from A. angustifolia 

 Beuth. in its pubescence, obtuse lower leaves, broad calyx-lobes, and short 

 bi"acts. The bracts in A. angustifolia are foliaceous, generally exceeding 

 the pedicels, and passing insensibly into the foliar leaves, while in A. 

 cuhensis the transition from leaves to bracts is tolerably abrupt. 



(B. L. RoBmsoN.) 



^ Miksiia polycepliala Urb. (n. sp.) ramis junioribus subteretibus, 

 obsolete v. vix striatis, pilis brevissimis scabriuscuhs; pseudostipulis 

 nuls; foliis 8 3 mm. longe petiolatis, ovatis usque elliptico-oblongis, 

 basi obtusiusculis v. obtusis, antice acuminatis v. breviter et sensim 

 angustatis, apice ipso obtuso, 6 2,5 cm. longis, 2^5 1,3 cm. latis, 

 margine subintegris, nervis lateralibus ad et supra basin 4 longitrorsis, 

 coriaceis v. chartaceo-coriaceis, supra obsolete scabriusculis; inflores- 

 centiis terminalibus et lateralibus panniculatis, e racemis simplicibus v. 

 infimis iterum ramulosis compositis, bracteis pedicellos suffulcientibus; 

 capitulis in quoque racemo 1018, pedicellis 1,5 2 mm. longis; in- 

 volucri squamis exterioribus apice obtusis, interioribus fere duplo lati- 

 oribus apice rotundatis, 3 mm. longis; pappi setis ca. 40, ad apicem non 

 V. vix incrassatis; corolla vix supra 2 mm. longa, ad medium in limbum 

 vix crassiorem cylindraceum abeunte, lobis breviter oblongis obtusis, limbo 

 integre subaequilongis erectis; achaeniis glanduliferis, caeterum glabris. 



