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long, 6-10 mm. long, 2-3.5 mm. broad, acute at the apex, smooth 
or nearly so, obscurely nerved, sessile, the margin more or less 
revolute; corolla white, the tube about 1 mm. long, the lobes 
elliptic-ovate, about as long as the tube; capsule circumscissile. 
Loma de Motembo, Santa Clara (Léon, Edmund & Fortun 
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| Family CARDUACEAE 
Aster Leonis Britton, sp. nov. 
Branched, 3 dm. high, the branches slender, densely short- 
pubescent. Leaves finely pubescent and scabrous, those of the 
branches linear or linear-oblong, entire, acute or acuminate, ses- 
sile, 2-5 cm. long, those of the branchlets similar, much smaller ; 
heads mostly solitary at the ends of the branchlets; involucre 
subhemispheric, 4-5 mm. high, its bracts linear-spatulate, ciliate, 
their green tips acutish; rays pink, about 1.5 cm. long 
Marshes, west of Batabano, Havana (Léon & Cazanas 5753). 
Gundlachia apiculata Britton & Blake, sp. nov. 
Shrub 1 meter high, resinous, the stout angulate stem branched 
above, tuberculate-strigillose, the branches erect. Leaves oblong- 
oblanceolate, 2.2-3.2 cm. long, 5-7 mm. wide, apiculate at the 
rounded apex, cuneate at base, alternate, sessile, coriaceous, en- 
tire, triplinerved and somewhat reticulate, punctate, more or less 
vernicose-resinous ; heads about 4 in a terminal cluster, equaled 
by the leaves; disk turbinate, 5-6 mm. high, 3.5 mm. wide; invo- 
lucre about 4-seriate, graduated, 4-5 mm. high, the phyllaries 
ovate-oblong, acute, appressed, indurated, scarious-margined, with 
darker subherbaceous glandular and glandular-ciliolate tips; rays 
about 2, white, oval, about 2 mm. long; disk-corollas about 4, 
sparsely pilose toward tip of tube, 4.8 mm, long, the tube 1.6 mm., 
the teeth 2 mm. long; achenes (immature) hispidulous, 1.5 mm. 
long; pappus dull white, 4 mm. long, the outer bristels shorter. 
Camp La Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, Oriente (Shafer 8053). 
Distinguished by its few heads and elliptic-obovate tripli- 
nerved leaves. 
Gundlachia foliosa Britton & Blake, sp. nov. 
Shrub, 0.3 to 1.3 meters high, somewhat glutinous, the stout 
erect striate branches tuberculate-strigillose, densely leafy, simple, 
or branched only in the inflorescence. Leaves obovate, 1.2-I. 
cm. long, 6-10 mm. wide, usually apiculate at the rounded apex, 
rounded at base, alternate, erect, uniform, sessile, coriaceous, tri- 
