CARDUACEAE. 459 



long, the upper smaller, lanceolate, acuminate, sessile, or half-clasping the 

 stem; heads few; involucre about 3.5 cm. high, the outermost bracts spinulose- 

 tipped, the inner acuminate; flowers pink; pappus white, long-plumose; 

 achenes about 5 mm. long. 



Pine-lands, Abaco and Great Bahama : — Florida. Pine-iand Thistle. 



36. ANASTRAPHIA D. Don, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 16: 295. 1830. 



Shrubs or trees, with alternate leaves, and terminal discoid heads of 

 tubular, perfect and fertile flowers. Involucre eampanulate or turbinate, its 

 bracts imbricated in several or many series, appressed or recurved, the outer 

 gradually shorter than the inner. Eeceptacle flat or nearly so, naked. Corolla- 

 limb scarcely expanded, 5-parted, the lobes narrow. Anthers sagittate at the 

 base, the a.uricles elongated. Style-branches short. Achenes linear, villous or 

 pubescent. Pappus of 1 or 2 series of filiform bristles. [Greek, turned back- 

 ward.] About 20 species, natives of the West Indies. Type species: Anast- 

 rapMa ilicifolia D. Bon. 



Bracts of the involucre recurved. 1. A. Northropiana, 



Bracts of the involucre strictly erect. 2. A. iahamenais. 



1. Anastraphia Northropiana Greenm. Trans. Acad. St. Louis 7: 435, 1897. 



An irregularly branched shrub, 1-2 m. high, or, on the coast of southern 

 Cuba becoming a tree up to 10 m. high, with a trunk 2 dm. in diameter, the 

 bark rough, the slender twigs densely white-tomentose. Leaves oblong to 

 elliptic or obovate, 1-4 cm. long, coriaceous, obtuse at the apex, narrowed or 

 obtuse at the base, serrate with few spiuulose-tipped teeth, or entire, glabrous 

 above, densely white-tomentose beneath, short-petioled ; involucre eampanulate, 

 12-15 mm. high, its bracts pubescent, the inner linear, acute, reflexed, the 

 outer gradually smaller; flowers 8-10, orange, about 3 cm. long; achenes 

 villous, 3 mm. long; pappus tawny, 12-16 mm. long. 



Low coppices and pine-lands, Andros, New Providence and Cat Island : — Cuba. 

 NOETHEOP'S Anasteaphia. Candmiwood. 



2. Anastraphia bahamensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 415. 1903. 



Anastraphia cuneifolia Greenm. Bull. .TST. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 126. 1905. 



Shrub 1-2 m. high, much-branched; stem and branches covered with a 

 light gray bark. Leaves obovate-cuneate, 1-2 cm. long, 0.5-1.2 cm. broad, 

 revolute-margined, sparingly spinulose-dentate in the terminal portion, entire 

 and narrowed below the middle into the petiole, slightly puberulent above in 

 the early stages but soon glabrate and rather conspicuously reticulate-veined, 

 densely and permanently white-tomentose beneath; petioles 3-5 mm. long, 

 tomentose; heads few, about 2 cm. long, sessile, mostly terminating the ulti- 

 mate branchlets, 5-flowered; involucre narrowly eampanulate, 8.5-10 mm. long; 

 bracts of the involucre 5-6-seriate, triangular-ovate to lance-linear, acute, ex- 

 ternaly arachnoid-tomentulose, brownish, slightly spreading at maturity; 

 mature achenes 3.5-4 mm. long, pubescent; pappus about 13 mm. in length, 

 persistent, tawny. 



Low coppices amd scrub-lands, Andros, Bleuthera, Cat Island, Great Exuma, 

 Crooked, Fortune and AcMin's Islands, Mariguana, Dellis Cay, Caicos Islands and 

 Inagua : — Cuba. Reported by Hitchcock and by Mrs. Northrop as A. paucifloscula 

 C Wright, an unpublished name. Bahama Anasteaphia. Caeeajo-bush. 



