118 BRITTON : CuBAN PLANTS NEw TO SCIENCE 
River-cliffs, Enseneda de Mora, Oriente (Britton, Cowell 
& Shafer 12937). 
Chaptalia Shaferi Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
Leaves 3—8 cm. long, lyrate or lyrate-pinnatified, short-petioled 
or sessile, obtuse or acutish, the terminal lobe much larger than 
the others, the upper surface dark green, glabrous, the under 
surface densely white-lanate ; scape very slender, glabrous below, 
slightly tomentose above, 2 dm, long or less; involucre subcam- 
panulate, about 5 mm. high, its bracts linear, acute, glabrous; 
achenes fusiform, minutely hispidulous, brown, the slender beak 
about half as long as the body; pappus longer than the achene, 
brownish-white. 
River-banks and wet rocks, Oriente. Type from sandy bank 
of Rio Yamaniguey (Shafer 4203). Confused in C. Wright’s 
collection with C. stenocephala Griseb., and with C. pumila of 
Jamaica. 
Chaptalia Rocana Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
Leaves several, membranous, spatulate-oblanceolate, 15 cm. 
long or less, repand-pinnatifid, crenate, or some of the smaller 
ones entire, acute or obtuse, dark green and glabrous or nearly so 
above, white-lanulose beneath, the petioles sometimes as long as 
the blades; scapes nearly filiform, 5-10 cm. long, floccose or be- 
coming glabrous; involucre subhemispheric, 6-7 mm. long, its 
bracts linear, acuminate, glabrate; achenes (immature) filiform, 
minutely hispidulous, brown, the short beak less than one quarter 
the length of the body; pappus longer than the achene, brownish- 
white. 
Mountains of southern Santa Clara. Type from stones in 
Rio Caracusey, Banao Mountains (Léon & Roca 7904). 
