Stenostomum maestrense (Urb.) Borhidi & M. Fernández

Antirhea maestrensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 9: 528. 1928
A small tree, the younger branches plicate-striate, glabrous, not resinous, the older ones grayish; stipules ovate, acute, as much as 6 mm. long, soon deciduous; petioles stout, 5-7 mm. long; leaf-blades oval or elliptic, 4-9 cm. long, 2-4.5 cm. wide, very obtuse, cuneately narrowed to the petiole, pergamentaceous or coriaceous, glabrous, sometimes domatiate beneath in the axils of the nerves, brownish above when dried, the costa prominulous, the nerves prominulous or subimpressed, somewhat paler beneath, the costa slender, prominent, the lateral nerves 3 or 4 on each side, very slender, prominulous, ascending at an angle of 60-65°, the veins obscure or obsolete, the margin narrowly recurved; inflorescences arising in the uppermost leaf-axils, on peduncles 2.5-4 cm. long, bifid, the branches 1-2 cm. long, with 11 or fewer flowers; calyx 1 mm. long, glabrous, shallowly 4-lobate, the lobes subtriangular, obtuse; fruit sessile, oblong or obovoid-oblong, attenuate below and acute at the base, rounded or truncate at the apex, 8-9 mm. long, 3.5-4 mm. wide, 2-celled; seeds linear-cylindric.
Type locality: Thickets along Rio Vara near Nagua, Sierra Maestra, Oriente, Cuba. Distribution: Type locality; represented, perhaps, also by material collected in some unknown part of eastern Cuba.