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oblong-obovate or linear-obovate to linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 
rounded and apiculate at the apex, tapering to a short petiole (or 
coriaceous, but lien veiny, _ green ; cymes short- 
within; crown-segments subulate, acute, attached to the base 
of the flat gynostegium and connate with it to the base of the short 
column; pollinia oblong. Follicles not seen. 
Near Salt Ponds, Inagua (Nash d& Taylor, 973, type); Blake- 
ville, Inagua (Mash & Taylor, 1114). 
Two other collections (Vash & Taylor, 942 and 1706) from the 
same region are referred here, and the description has been made 
to include them; they may, after further study, be found to be dis- 
tinct species. ; 
Nearest to Wetastelma bahanzense, from which it differs in the 
shape and width of the leaves and much more numerous flowers. 
BoONTIA DAPHNOIDES L. 
Grand Turk (Mash & Taylor, 3778, 3878). Previously known 
from Great Bahama. 
Aster lucayanus sp. nov. 
Related to Aster nice L. Rootstock short, thick, tuber-like. 
eaves strongly reticulat aa ere sessile (basal ones not seen), 
the lower Sblanceolate,. ae. those above the middle of the stem 
lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, ee e, 2-3.5 cm. long, 5-8 
wide, those of the inflorescence similar, smaller; heads race- 
mose or racemose-campanulate, about 2 cm. ates peduncles 
slender, sericeous; involucre turbinate-campanulate, its bracts 
loose, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, sericeou = the inner 
5-7 mm. long; rays purple, 2 mm. wide; achenes sericeous, 3 
Pinelands, Eight Mile Rocks, Great Balaee (Britton & Milis- 
paugh, 2448, type); same locality (Brace, 3673). Differs from 
A. concolor in the strongly reticulate acuminate leaves and narrower 
involucral bracts. 
IT am aware that Professor Greene (Leaflets 1: 5) has indicated 
A. concolor asa generic type, Virgaria concolor (L.) Raf., but 
I am not prepared to accede to this proposition. 
