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None of the leaves spinulose-dentate. 

 Involucral bracts tomentose. 

 Inner involucral bracts glabrous. 

 Involucre 2 cm. long or less. 

 Involucre 1.5-2 cm. long. 



Leaves or some of them 1.5-2 cm. long. 



Inner involucral bracts obtusish or short- 

 pointed. 

 Inner involucral bracts acuminate. 

 Leaves 12 mm. long or less. 



Leaves strongly spinulose-dentate. 

 Leaves repand-denticulate. 

 Involucre 1.5 cm. long or less. 



Leaves 2-3 times as long as wide. 

 Leaves spinulose-denticulate. 



Leaves strongly reticulated beneath. 

 Leaves not reticulated beneath, or faintly 

 reticulated. 

 Achenes short- tomentose; leaves reticu- 

 late-veined above. 

 Achenes villous; leaves smooth above. 

 Leaves entire-margined. 

 Leaves not longer than wide, or but little longer. 

 Leaves obtuse or truncate at base. 

 Involucre 6 mm. long. 

 Involucre 10 mm. long. 

 Leaves cuneate at base. 



2. Involucral bracts recurved, or with recurved tips. 

 Involucral bracts arachnoid. 



Involucral bracts villous. 



3. Involucre known only in a young condition; leaves oblong, 



4 cm. long, 1.8 cm. wide, entire-margined or with a 

 tooth near the apex. 



6. A. Picardae. 



7. A. crassifolia. 



8. A. oligantha. 



9. A. bahamensis. 



10. ^. calcicola. 



11. A. parvifolia. 



12. A. Wilsoni. 



13. A. intertexta. 



14. A. Shaferi. 



15. A. obtusifolia. 



16. A. microcephala. 



17. A. Rosei. 



18. A. Buchii. 



19. A. Northropiana. 



20. A. recurva. 



21. A. lomensis. 



I. Anastraphia ilicifolia D. Don, Trans. Linn. Soc. i6: 296. 



1830 



Gochnatia ilicifolia Less. Linnaea 5: 261. 1830 (attributed to 



Guiana doubtfully). 



Type locality: South America [in error]. 



Distribution: Limestone cliffs and river-gorges, provinces of 

 Matanzas and Havana, Cuba. A shrub 2-3 m. high, the leaves 

 shining above. 



A specimen in Kew Herbarium from rocks on the Rio Canimar, 

 Cuba, 1823, bears the label Staehelina ilicifolia Mutis., but that 

 species is a South American Gynoxys. - ,- 



