﻿384 Brittox: Studies of West Indian plants 



ceous, 1-2.5 cm. long, i cm. wide or less, obtuse or acute at the 

 apex, narrowed at the base, green, shining, and densely finely 

 reticulate-veined above, brownish-tomentulose and prominently 

 veined beneath, the margins strongly spinulose-dentate, the slender 

 petioles 1.5-3 mm. long; heads solitary on short branchlets; 

 involucre 1-1.5 cm. high, its bracts in about 8 series, the outer 

 ovate, acute, densely lanate, the inner lanceolate to linear-lanceo- 

 late, attenuate, nearly glabrous; corolla 1.5 cm. long; achenes 

 densely puljescent, 5 mm. long; pappus tawny, 3 times as long 

 as the achene. 



Rocky bank, Rio Toyaba, near Trinidad, province of Santa 

 Clara, Cuba {Britton & Wilson 5573), 



13. Anastraphia intertexta C. Wright; Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 

 158. 1866 



Type locality: Near San Marcos, district of Bahia Honda, 

 Pinar del Rio, Cuba. 



Distribution: Mountain sides, Pinar del Rio, Cuba. 



14. Anastraphia Shaferi sp. nov. 



An intricately branched shrub 2-2.5 m. high, the young twigs 

 ianate. Leaves oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, 10-18 mm. long, 

 8 mm. wide or less, coriaceous, sharply spinulose-dentate, obtuse at 

 the apex, narrowed at the base, green, glabrous and smooth above, 

 whitish-lanate and rather prominently veined beneath, the petioles 

 about 1.5 mm. long; heads solitary or sometimes 2 together at the 

 ends of branchlets; involucre about i cm. long, its villous-lanate 

 bracts in about 5 series, the outer ovate, the inner lanceolate, 

 acuminate; corolla "whitish," about ii mm. long; achenes vil- 

 lous-pubescent, 3 mm. long; pappus tawny, 2-3 times as long 

 as the achene. 



Dry cliff, below the falls of Rio Naranja, Oriente, Cuba, 450- 

 550 m. elevation {Shafer 3865). 



15. Anastraphia obtusifolia sp. nov. 

 An intricately branched shrub, the young twigs lanate- 

 tomentulose. Leaves oblong to oblanceolate, 2.5 cm. long or less, 

 4-10 mm. wide, coriaceous, entire-margined, dark green and 

 finely densely reticulate-veined above, white-lanate and incon- 

 spicuously veined beneath, obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the 

 base, the petioles 1-1.5 mm. long; head (only one old one seen 



