Stenostomum abbreviatum (Urb.) Borhidi & M. Fernández

Antirhea abbreviata Urban, Symb. Ant. 9: 159. 1923
A small shrub, the branches cinereous-fuscous, plicate-striate, the young branchlets glabrous or nearly so, densely leafy at the apex, resinous, the internodes 1-2 mm. long; stipules triangular, coriaceous, glabrous, 3 mm. long, glabrous, deciduous; petioles 1.5-3 mm. long; leafblades obovate or narrowly obovate, 1.5-2.8 cm. long, 0.8-1.5 cm. wide, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, somewhat narrowed to the subobtuse or acute base, coriaceous, somewhat lustrous above, sparsely and minutely pilose near the margin, the costa subimpressed, the nerves inconspicuous, beneath sparsely pilosulous along the costa, elsewhere glabrous, the lateral nerves 5-7 on each side, prominulous, the margin strongly recurved; inflorescences arising from the uppermost leaf-axils, 2-flowered, on peduncles 1-4 mm. long, dichotomous at the apex; bracts none; calyx and hypanthium 3-4 mm. long, the hypanthium oblong, sparsely shortpilose, the calyx almost twice as long as the hypanthium, the lobes semiorbicular or broadly triangular; corolla white, the tube cylindric, 10-11 mm. long, pilose within, the 5 lobes obovate, rounded at the apex, 2 mm. wide, one third as long as the tube; stamens inserted in the corollathroat, included, the anthers oblong-linear, 2 mm. long; style 4 mm. long, glabrous, the branches linear; ovary 2or 3-celled, rarely 1-cellcd; fruit oblong, 6 mm. long, 2.5 mm. thick.
Type LOCALITYThickets, Rio Piloto, Sierra de Nipe, Oriente, Cuba. Distribution: Moimtains of Oriente, Cuba.