Nova gcncia et spocies I. 459 



what pubcsccnt below, essentially glabrous towards thc suramit, leafy, 

 terminating in a simple short-bracted raceme; leaves narrowly obianceo- 

 late to oblong-, serrulate to nearly entire, ciliate towards tlie narrowed 

 sessile base otherwise nearly glabrate, 1-nerved, pinnately veined, 4 to 

 6 cm. long, 7 to 11 mm. wide, the lower ones mostly obtuse, the otbers 

 acute or acutish; inflorescence erect, glabrous, 6 to 12 cm. long; pedi- 

 cels solitary, opposite, soon spreading, at length deflexed as Avell as 

 recurved, 1 to 1,5 cm. long, nmch exceediug the short ovate subtending 

 bracts (2 to 8 mm. in length); calyx-lobes broad, oval, in young fruit 

 3 mm. long, three fourths as wide, faintly several-nerved from the base, 

 obtuse or brought to a very short acutish point; corolla purplish blue, 

 1,5 cm. long (from the base to the end of the lower lip), glabrous or 

 nearly so on the outer surface, granulär- puberulent withiu and cilio- 

 late; lobes of the lower lip suborbicular; capsule globose, glabrous, 

 nodding on the recurved pedicels, tipped with a hooked more or less 

 persistent style. 



Hab. in Cuba in "waste grass lands, old roads etc., in dry 

 upland soll." Cieneguita, 6 Jun. 1895: R, Combs n. 130. 



Obs. This number, which was at first taken at the Gray Herbarium 

 for A. angnsfifolia, is now regarded as the type of the new species here 

 characterized. It is identical with at least a portion of Wriglit's n. 8018, 

 and Ms no. 8019, although a little more pubescent and too young for certain 

 Identification, is probably tlie sarae. A. cuhensis differs from A. angustifolia 

 Bentli. in its pubescence, obtuse lower leaves, broad calyx-lobes, and short 

 bracts. The bracts in A. angustifolia are foliaceous, generally exceeding 

 the pedicels, and passing insensibly into the foliar leaves, while in A. 

 cuhensis the transition from leaves to bracts is tolerably abrupt. 



(B. L. Robinson.) 



Mikaiiia polycepliala Urb. (n. sp.) ramis junioribus subteretibus, 

 obsolete v. vix striatis, pilis brevissimis scabriusculis; pseudostipulis 

 nullis; foliis 8 — 3 mm. longo petiolatis, ovatis usque elliptico-oblongis, 

 basi obtusiusculis v. obtusis, antice acuminatis v. breviter et sensim 

 angustatis, apice ipso obtuso, 6 — 2,5 cm. longis, 2,5 — 1,3 cm. latis, 

 margine subintegris, nervis lateralibus ad et supra basin 4 longitrorsis, 

 coriaceis v. chartaceo-coriaceis, supra obsolete scabriusculis; inflores- 

 centiis terminalibus et lateralibus panniculatis, e racemis simplicibus v. 

 infimis iterum ramulosis compositis, bracteis pedicellos suffulcientibus; 

 capitulis in quoque racemo 10 — 18, pedicellis 1,5- — 2 mm. longis; in- 

 volucri squamis exterioribus apice obtusis, interioribus fere duplo lati- 

 oribus apice rotundatis, 3 mm. longis; pappi setis ca. 40, ad apicem non 

 V. vix incrassatis; corolla vix supra 2 mm. longa, ad medium in linibum 

 vix crassiorem cylindraceum abeunte, lobis breviter oblongis obtusis, limbo 

 integro subaequilongis erectis; achaeniis glanduliferis, caeterum glabris. 



