Exostema parviflorum A. Rich. ex Bonpl.

Exostema parviflorum Rich. ; Humb. & Bonpl. PI Aequin. 1: 132. 1808.
Exostema Valenzuelae A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cuba pi. 48, hyponym. 1850.
Cinchona parviflora Brign. Mem. Soc. Ital. Modena II. 1: 63. 1862.
Solenandra ixoroides Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. 12: 45. 1876.
Steudelago ixoroides Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 298. 1891.
Exostema Wrightii Krug & Urban; Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 424. 1899.
vShrub or tree, 2-3 meters high, the branches stout, brown or grayish, lenticellate, minutely puberulent when young, the internodes short or elongate; stipules 1-2 mm. long, deltoid, acute or acutish, apiculate, thick; petioles stout, 3-10 mm. long, minutely puberulent or glabrous; leaf-blades oval, rounded-oval, or oval-ovate, 1.5-6 cm. long, 0.8-3 cm. wide, obtuse to broadly rounded at the base, rounded to acutish at the apex, sometimes broadly and obtusely shortacuminate, coriaceous, bright-green, lustrous, glabrous or sparsely pilose beneath in the axils of the veins, the venation impressed above, usually prominent beneath, the lateral veins 3-5, distant, arcuate, the margin plane or re volute; inflorescence terminal and axillary, cymosecorymbose, 3-6 cm. broad, dense, usually many-flowered, the pedicels 2 mm. long or shorter; hypanthium 2 mm. long, glabrous; calyx-lobes 4 or 5, triangular, acute, half as long as the hypanthium or shorter; corolla white, glabrous, 7-12 mm. long, the lobes 4 or 5, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, about half as long as the tube, spreading; stamens exserted, the anthers 1.5-2.5 mm. long; capsule oblong-obovoid, 3.5-5.5 mm. long, smooth, dark-brown; seeds brown, 1.5-2 mm. long, wing-appendaged at each end.
Type locality: Cuba.
Distribution: Rocky hillsides, Cuba.

Exostema elegans Krug & Urban; Urban, (Ber. Deuts
Bot. Ges. 15: 262; nomen nudum. 1897)
Symb. Ant. 1: 423. 1899.
Tree, 4-5 meters high, the branches stout, grayish, minutely puberulent when young, the internodes short; stipules 1-2 mm. long, deltoid or subtruncate, apiculate, thick, deciduous; petioles stout, 3-8 mm. long, minutely puberulent or glabrate; leaf-blades oval or oval-elliptic, 2.7-9 cm. long, 1.4-4 cm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the base, rounded or obtuse at the apex or sometimes obtusely short-acuminate, coriaceous, lustrous above, glabrous, the venation plane or impressed, paler beneath, glabrous or sparsely pilose in the axils of the veins, the lateral veins obscure, the margin plane or subrevolute; inflorescence terminal and axillary, cymosecorymbose, 1.5-6 cm. broad, densely many-flowered, the pedicels 1 mm. long or shorter, glabrous; hypanthium 1.5-2 mm. long, glabrous ; calyx-lobes 5, oblong-linear or linear-spatulate, obtuse, often equaling the hypanthium; corolla white, glabrous, 8-10 mm. long, the 5 lobes oblong, obtuse, about half as long as the tube; stamens exserted, the anthers 1.5-2 mm. long; capsule obovoid-oblong, 4 mm. long, 1.7 mm. thick, brown; seeds obovate-oblong, yellowishbrown, winged at each end.
Type locality: Near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Distribution : Hispaniola.