Stenostomum myrtifolium Griseb.

Antirhea myrtifolia (Griseb.) Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 440. 1899
Slenoslomum myrtifoliiim Griseb. Kl. Brit. W. Ind. 334. 1861. Guettarda myrlifolia Maza, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 23: 290. 1894.
A much-branched rigid shrub about 1 meter high, the branches reddish-brown or blackish, the branchlets stout, minutely puberulent, resinous, densely leafy; stipules deltoid, 2-3 mm. long, acute, rigid, puberuleiit, persistent; petioles stout, 1-3 mm. long; leaf-blades oblong, ovaloblong, or oval, 1-2.5 cm. long, 0.6-1.6 cm. wide, broadest at or slightly above the middle, rounded or obtuse at the apex, rounded or obtuse at the base, thick-coriaceous, usually lustrous, glabrous above, the costa very prominent, the nerves mostly obsolete, the veins often prominulous-reticulate, beneath usually brownish, glabrous or when young sparsely and minutely strigillose, the costa prominent, the other venation almost obsolete, the margin often recurved; cymes once bifid or simple, 3-7-flowered, the branches very short, the peduncles 5-15 mm. long, the flowers sessile, ebracteolate ; calyx and hj-panthium 1.5-2 mm. long, glabrous, the calyx as long as the hypanthium, shallowly 4-lobate, the lobes rounded-ovate, obtuse; corolla white, glabrous outside, the tube slender, 6-8 mm. long, the 4 lobes rounded-oval, 2 mm. long; anthers included; fruit oval or subglobose, black, 4-5 mm. long, 4-6-celled.
Type locality': Bahamas.
Distribution: Dry thickets and pinelands, Bahamas and islands of Camaguey, Cuba.

Antirhea montecristina Urban, Ark. Bot. 24A*: 51. 1931
A shrub, the branches terete, the young ones very minutely pilosulous with spreading hairs and resinous, leafy only at the apex; stipules triangular, obtuse or acutish, 1-1.5 mm. long; petioles 1-2 mm. long; leaf -blades obovate, oval, or elliptic, obtuse, at the base acute or narrowed to the petiole, rarely obtuse, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, glabrous, 1.5-3 cm. long and 1-1.7 cm. w-ide or smaller, the costa prominent on both surfaces, the lateral nerves 10-12 on each side, subimpressed on both surfaces, the veins reticulate, the blades lustrous on both surfaces; inflorescences axillary, on peduncles 5-13 mm. long, densely cymose, with 8 or fewer flowers, the branches 5 mm. long or shorter, the flowers sessile; bracts absent; hypanthium 0.9 mm. thick, the calyx 1 mm. long, irregularly dentate, the margin minutely pilosulous; corolla probably little more than 3 mm. long, glabrous; fruit oval, lustrous, 4.5-5 mm. long, 3.5-4.5 mm. wide, 4or 5-celled.
Type locality: Calcareous soil, summit of El Morro, near Monte Cristi, Province of Monte Cristi, northern cordiilera of Santo Domingo, altitude 200 meters. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.