Stenostomum heteroneurum (Urb. & Ekman) Borhidi

Antirhea heteroneura Urban &: Ekman; Urban, Ark. Bot. 21A-^:
83. 1927.
A small tree, the branches terete, glabrous, the young ones resinous at the apex, the internodes short or elongate, the branchlets leafy at the apex; stipules shortly and broadly triangular, acute or subobtuse, 1.5 mm. long or less; petioles short and stout, glabrous; leafblades oval to obovate or ovate, 1-2 cm. long, 0.7-1.2 cm. wide, obtuse or acutish and mucronatepungent, obtuse or rounded at the base, thick-coriaceous, glabrous, lustrous above, the costa and nerves pale and prominulous, pale and dull beneath, the stout costa prominent, the lateral nerves 5-8 on each side, prominulous beneath, the veins obscure, the margin plane; inflorescences arising in the upper leaf-axils, 1-2-flowered, sessile or on peduncles as much as 3 mm. long, the bracts semiorbicular, 0.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, ciliate; calyx 1.3 mm. long, 5-lobed, the lobes semiorbicular; ovary 8or 9-celled; fruit red, obovoid, truncate, as much as 1 1 mm. long and 7.5 mm. thick, with fleshy exocarp.
Type locality: Calcareous soil. Mole St. Nicolas. Battcrie Vallicrc to Morne Rouge, northwestern peninsula of Haiti.
Distribution: Region of the type locality and Tortue Island. Haiti.