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 ae 
coming glabrous; involucre subhemispheric, 6-7 mm. long, 1 
bracts linear, acuminate, glabrate; achenes (immature) ftiform, 
minutely hispidulous, brown, the short beak less than one quarter 
the length of the Pad pappus longer than the achene, brownish- 
white. 
Mountains of southern Santa Clara. Type from stones in 
Rio Caracusey, Banao Mountains (Léon & Roca 7904). 
