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BRITTON: CUBAN PLANTS NEW TO SCIENCE 115 
plinerved, punctate, dull green both sides, glabrous; heads in 
dense terminal panicles of about 8 or 10, equaling or slightly ex- 
ceeding the leaves; pedicels sparsely hispidulous, 1-2 mm. long; 
heads 6 mm. wide; disk turbinate, 6 mm. high, 3.5 mm. wide; 
involucre about 5-seriate, graduated, 5 mm. high, the phyllaries 
lance-ovate (outer) to oblong, acute to acuminate, appressed, 
indurated and scarious-margined with dark subherbaceous tips, 
sparsely glandular-hispidulous at apex; rays 2, white, oval, tri- 
denticulate, 3.2 mm. long; disk-corollas 3, hispid-pilose at base of 
throat, 4.5-4.8 mm. long, the slender tube 1.5 mm., the lanceolate 
recurved teeth 2-2.5 mm. long; achenes oblong-cylindric, 5-angled, 
hispidulous, 2 mm. long; pappus dull white, 4 mm. long, the outer 
bristles shorter. 
On dryish rocks, Camp La Gloria, across Sierra Moa, to Moa 
Bay, Oriente (Shafer 8280). 
Readily recognized by its small crowded obovate lase 
Gundlachia cubana Britton & Blake, sp. nov. 
Low shrub, growing in clumps, branched, more or less resi- 
nous, the stem stoutish, densely tuberculate on the angles, densely 
leafy. Leaves narrowly oblanceolate, 1.7-2.7 cm. long, 2.5-4 
mm. wide, acute, narrowed to the sessile base, alternate, coria- 
ceous, entire, I-nerved, punctate, glabrous, dull green; panicles 
terminal, sessile, about 8-headed, equaled or slightly exceeded by 
the leaves; pedicels 1 to 8 mm. long; heads turbinate, about 7 
mm. wide: disk 6 mm. high, 4-5 mm. wide; involucre about 
glandular-hispidulous and ciliolate tips somewhat recurved in 
age; rays 4, white, oval, 4 mm. long; disk-corollas 5, sparsely 
pilose at base of throat, 4.5 mm. long, the tube 1.5 mm., the teeth 
2.2 mm.; achenes obovoid, densely hispid-pilose, 1-1.4 mm. long; 
pappus dull white, 4 mm. long, the outer bristles shorter. 
Northern Oriente. Type collected by water near mangroves, 
mouth of Rio Yamaniguey (Shafer 4255). 
Erigeron Taylori Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
Diminutive, glabrous. Scapes filiform, prostrate or spread- 
ing, only 3 cm. long or less, monocephalous, bearing several ob- 
long or oblanceolate scales about 1 mm. long; basal leaves tufted, 
Spatulate, entire, obtuse or rounded, the blade 2-4 mm. broad, the 
slender petiole 15 mm. long or less; involucre 2 mm. long, its 
linear-lanceolate, agute or acuminate bracts reflexed in age and 
