360° BRITTON: STUDIES OF West INDIAN PLANTS 
one third to one half as long as the blades, the finely reticulate 
venation much darker in color than the parenchyma; heads 
several or numerous; peduncles 6 cm. long or less; involucre 
oblong-cylindric, about 1 cm. high, its bracts linear, spreading 
at anthesis, acutish and puberulent at the apex; rays oval to 
oblong, bluntish or emarginate, 1.5—2 cm. long, strongly veined; 
disk-corollas tubular-cylindric, narrowed below, 7-10 mm. long, 
with acute triangular-ovate teeth; anthers and _ style-branches 
slightly exserted; achenes linear, 12-16 mm. long, about I mm. 
thick, sparingly pubescent on the angles, the two yellowish awns 
3-5 mm. long, downwardly barbed. 
Banks at higher altitudes in the Blue Mountains; type col- 
lected by Forrest Shreve at Cinchona, November, 1905. 
Chaenocephalus propinquus sp. nov. 
A shrub, 2 m. high. Leaves firm in texture, oblanceolate, 
5-9 cm. long, acute at the apex, cuneately tapering from above 
the middle to a sessile entire base, sharply and rather coarsely 
dentate above the middle, smooth on both sides or minutely 
scabrate-puberulent beneath, the pinnate venation not very prom- 
inent; inflorescence corymbose, 5-8 cm. broad; peduncles ap- 
pressed-pubescent, 2-4 cm. long, nearly erect, or narrowly as- 
cending; heads numerous, turbinate-campanulate, 6-7 mm. high; 
involucral bracts pubescent, the outer narrowly oblong to lance- 
olate, obtuse, 5.5 mm. long, the inner broadly oblanceolate, 
sharply acute, 5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide; corolla 3.5 mm. long, 
nearly cylindric above the narrowed base, its lobes: triangular- 
ovate, acute; pappus-bristles about one half as long as the corolla; 
achene cuneate-oblanceolate, 4 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide at the 
top, scabrous-pubescent, the wings nearly 1 mm. wide above. 
In rocky soil, Lover’s Leap, Yardley Chase, Santa Cruz 
Mountains, at 530 meters altitude (Britton 1144, Sept. 4, 1907; 
type; Harris 9672). Nearly related to C. venosus Urban, from 
wet woodlands on the summit of John Crow Peak, at 2000 meters 
altitude. (See Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 526.) 
15. THE GENUS BADIERA DC. 
BaprErA DC. Prodr. 1: 334. 1824 
Type species: Badiera Penaea (L.) DC. 
Leaves obovate to oblong, 1-4 cm. long, obtuse or emarginate. 
Leaves obovate. 
Pubescent; leaves 2-2.5 cm. long, papillose-scabrous. 1. B. Penaea. 
