Stenostomum ellipticum (Urb. & Ekman) Borhidi

Antirhea elliptica Urban & Ekman; Urban, Ark. Bot. 24A^: 52
1931.
A shrub with distinctive odor, the branches terete, very minutely pilosulous and resinous, ■ leafy only at the apices; stipules triangular-acuminate, 1-2 mm. long; petioles 1 mm. long; leafblades elliptic, 1.5-2 cm. long and 6-8 mm. wide or smaller, somewhat narrowed to each end, acute, at the base acute or rarely subobtuse, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, glabrous, lustrous, the costa prominent on both sides, the lateral nerves 7 or 8 pairs, subimpressed on both sides; inflorescences axillary, cymosely 2-4-flowered, the peduncles 5-15 mm. long, the flowers sessile, the bracts absent; hypanthium 1.2 mm. thick; calyx-limb 1.5 mm. long, minutely pilosulous, the lobes linear; corolla white, 7 mm. long, glabrous, the tube cylindraceous, 0.8 mm. thick, slightly ampliate above, the lobes less than one third as long as the tube, oval; stamens inserted in the middle of the corolla-tube, the filaments 1.5 mm. long, the anthers linear, 2 mm. long, obtuse at each end; fruit oval, 2.5-3 mm. long, 1.8-2.2 mm. thick, 4-6-celled.
Type locality: On coral rocks, Laguna Enriquillo, Isla Cabritos, Province of Barahona, Santo Domingo, elevation 10 meters.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.