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coriaceous, entire or some of them remotely spinulose-dentate, 

 green, glabrous and reticulate-veined above, whitish-lanate be- 

 neath, obtuse or acute at the apex, narrowed at the base, the 

 petioles 1-2.5 mm. long; heads solitary at the ends of branches; 

 involucre obconic, long-attenuate at the base, 3-3.5 cm. long, its 

 bracts lanate, imbricated in about 14 series, the lower ovate, the 

 upper lanceolate; corolla yellow, about i cm. long; achenes linear, 

 densely pubescent, 6 mm. long; pappus tawny, a little longer 

 than the achene. 



Moist thickets. Sierra Nipe, Oriente, Cuba, between Piedra 



Gorda and Woodfred, at 400-500 meters elevation (Shafer jiij), 



6. Anastraphia Picardae Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 414. 1903 



Type locality: Near Cadets, Haiti, at 1200 m. alt. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



7, Anastraphia crassifolia sp. nov. 



A shrub about 1.6 m. high, the young twigs densely tomentose. 

 Leaves oblong, or oblong-oblanceolate, coriaceous, 4-7 cm. long, 

 1-2 cm. wide, entire-margined, green, shining, and with impressed 

 veins above, lanate- tomentose and with prominent veins beneath; 

 involucre campanulate, nearly 3 cm. high, its bracts in 7 or 8 

 series, the outer ovate, lanate, the inner linear-lanceolate, glabrous, 

 long-attenuate. 



Near mangroves, mouth of Rio Yamaniguey, Oriente, Cuba 

 (Shafer 4261). Only one old involucre was collected. 



8. Anastraphia oligantha Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 417. 1903. 



Type locality: Santo Domingo. 



Distribution: Santo Domingo. Known only from the type 

 specimens collected by Wright, Parry and Brummell in 1871, 

 and from plate 123, f. 2, of Plumier, with which they were identified 

 by Professor Urban. Referred to by Hitchcock (Rep. Mo. Bot. 

 Gard. 4: 102) as A. pauciflosculosa C, Wright, an unpublished 

 species. 



9. Anastraphia bahamensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 415. 1903 



Anastraphia pauciflosculosa Hitchc. Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4: 102. 

 pi. 12. 1893. Hyponym. ~ -'' 



