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BRITTON: CUBAN PLANTS NEw TO SCIENCE 147 
Swamp near Atares Castle, Havana, June, 1917 (Léon 7244). 
Nearest B. frutescens (L.) DC., but easily distinguished by 
its merely short-cuspidate outer phyllaries and pales. 
Spilanthes montana Britton & Blake, sp. nov. 
Shrub about 5 dm. high, sparsely dichotomously branched, 
the stem stout, angulate, densely leafy, the branches erect, the 
internodes mostly 4-10 mm. long. Leaves opposite, the blades 
lanceolate, 2.5-4 cm. long, 4-8 mm. wide, narrowed to an obtuse 
apex, cuneate at base, entire, coriaceous, slightly revolute, tripli- 
nerved, glabrous, shining above, duller beneath; petioles scarcely 
margined, 2-5 mm. long; peduncles terminal and axillary, mono- 
cephalous, glabrous, striate, 16-34 cm. long, sometimes bearing 
two spatulate denticulate bracts 4 mm. long below the head; 
heads discoid, subglobose to ovoid-subglobose, rounded, 6-10 
mm. high, 9-10 mm. thick; involucre 3-seriate, slightly graduated, 
5-6 mm. high, the phyllaries oblong or oval-oblong, rounded, 
denticulate-erose above, sparsely glandular-ciliolate below, thick- 
herbaceous with subscarious margin, papillose on back, obscurely 
nerved; disk-corollas white, 3.2 mm. long, sparsely papillose- 
glandular below, with short obscure tube; pales blunt, erose- 
denticulate above, papillose-glandular on keel throughout and 
sparsely hispid-pilose below; achenes (not quite mature) oblong- 
obovate, 3 mm. long, ciliate; awns 2, unequal, ciliate, 2-2.8 mm 
long. 
Top of Cajalbana, near the fall of the arroyo, Pinar del Rio, 
Cuba, April 6, 1915 (Léon & Charles 4936). 
Related to S. insipida Jacq. and S. pauciceps (Griseb.) Blake, 
but readily distinguished by its densely leafy stems and lanceo- 
late entire leaves. 
Chaptalia comptonioides Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
Leaves several or numerous, deeply pinnatifid, spatulate- 
oblanceolate in outline, 3-15 cm. long, short-petioled, obtuse or 
acutish, membranous, the upper surface dark green, glabrous or 
somewhat floccose, the under surface densely white-lanate, the 
ovate terminal lobe larger than the semicircular lateral ones; 
scape slender, floccose at least above, 2 dm. high or less; -invo- 
lucre subhemispheric, 9-11 mm. high, its linear bracts acute or 
acuminate, white-tomentulose with a green midvein ; achene fusi- 
form, minutely hispidulous, brown, the angles white, the filiform 
beak about as long as the body; pappus longer than the beak, pale 
brownish-white. 
