﻿386 Brittox: Studies of West Indian plants 



Cuba: On rocky coastal hills, Punta Piedra, Nipe Bay, 

 Oriente {Britton & Cowell 12450); harbor of Santiago, Oriente 

 {Britton 1877) ; near Nuevitas, Camaguey {Shafer 839) ; Calicita, 

 Santa Clara {Comhs 521); Rio San Juan, Santa Clara {Britton, 

 Earle & Wilson 5839, 5864); apparently the same species, 

 collected in foliage only, on Cayo Ratones, Bay of Mariel, Pinar 

 del Rio {Britton &■ Gager 7678). I cannot specifically distinguish 

 the Cuban plant from the Bahamian; on the southern coast of 

 Santa Clara Province it forms a tree up to 10 m. high with a 

 trunk 2 dm. in diameter; its bark is very rough. 



20. Anastraphia recurva sp. nov. 



A much-branched shrub up to about 3 m. high, the young 

 twigs tomentulose. Leaves oblong to elliptic or oblanceolate, 

 coriaceous, 4 cm. long or less, 8-15 mm. wide, green and smooth 

 or somewhat reticulate- veined above, lanate beneath, obtuse or 

 acute at the apex, cuneate-narrowed, acute or obtuse at the base, 

 spinulose-dentate or entire, the petioles 1.5-3 mm. long; heads 

 solitary at the ends of branchlets; involucre broadly campanulate, 

 1. 5-1 .8 cm. high, its bracts densely villous, imbricated in 6 or 7 

 series, recurved-spreading, linear-lanceolate, acuminate; corolla 

 yellow or yellowish, about i cm. long; achenes densely whitish- 

 pubescent, about 4 mm. long; pappus tawny, 2-3 times as long 

 as the achene. 



Serpentine hills near mouth of Rio Yamaniguey, Oriente, Cuba 

 {Shafer 4257; type) ; between Rio Yamaniguey and Camp Toa, 

 400 m. alt. {Shafer 4011) ; vicinity of Camp San Benito, 900 m. 

 alt. {Shafer 4^77) \ Camp La Gloria, south of Sierra Moa {Shafer 

 8187, 8266); between Camp La Barga and Camp San Benito 

 {Shafer 4120). 



A species which has wide variation in leaf -forms; the involucre 

 in all specimens seen appears to be the same. 



21. Anastraphia (?) 1 

 A shrub about 2.5 m. high, the twigs tomentulose. Leaves 

 oblong, coriaceous, about 4 cm. long and 1.8 cm. wide, entire- 

 margined, or rarely with a spinulose tooth near the apex, spinulose- 

 tipped and acute, or rounded at the apex, narrowed or obtuse at 

 the base, faintly reticulate-veined, green and glabrous above, 

 lanate and rather prominently veined beneath, the petioles 2-3.5 



