﻿380 Britton: Studies of West Indian plants 



None of the leaves spinulose-dentate. 



Involucral bracts tomentose. 6. A. Pit 



Inner involucral bracts glabrous. 7- A. era 



Leaves spini 

 Leaves si 



Leaves entire-margined. 



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. 



