Pectis juniperina Rydb.

Pectis juniperina Rydberg, sp. nov
An intricately branched annual, forming cushions; stem branched at the base, about 1 dm. high, puberulent; leaves linear or linear-subulate, 1-1.5 cm. long, arcuate, spreading, with thick midrib and margins, attenuate, bristletipped, with 3-5 pairs of bristles towards the base; glands inconspicuous, in a single row along each margin; heads solitary at the ends of the branches; peduncles 1-2 cm. long; involucre 5-6 cm. high, about 3 mm. broad, narrowly turbinate-campanulate; bracts 5, oblong-oblanceolate, rounded and mucronate at the apex, keeled below; ray-flowers not seen; disk-flowers 5 or 6; corollas 5 mm. long; achenes 4 mm. long, hirsutulous; pappus-bristles 30-40, about 4 mm. long.
Type collected between Laguna del Bufeo and Laguna Alcatraz Grande, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, December 16, 1911, J. A. Shafer 11013 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard,).