414 RUBIACEAE. 



corolla nearly 3 cm. long, densely pubescent, its very slender tube 5-6 times 

 as long as the oblong lobes; fruit subglobose, densely puberulent, 10-11 mm. 

 in diameter. 



Matthew Town, Inagua (Nash d Taylor, 910). Inagua VELTBT-SBBD. 



6. Guettarda elliptica Sw. Prodr. 59. 1788. 



A shrub or a tree up to 8 m. high, with slender branches, the young twigs 

 loosely pubescent. Leaves chartaceous, elliptic to ovate-elliptic or elliptic- 

 lanceolate, 2-7 cm. long, obtuse, aeutish or apieulate at the apex, narrowed, 

 obtuse, or (on young shoots) rarely subcordate at the base, sparingly pubes- 

 cent or glabrate above, finely appressed-silky beneath, the petioles 3-8 mm. 

 long, or those of shoot-leaves longer; stipules lanceolate, 410 mm. long; 

 peduncles slender, pubescent, shorter than the leaves, few-several-flowered; 

 bracts lanceolate or oblong, shorter than the calyx; calyx about 2 mm. long, 

 puberulent, nearly truncate; corolla white or yellowish-white, above 6 mm. 

 long, silky-pubescent, its 4 oblong lobes about one-fourth as long as the tube ; 

 fruit globose, red, turning black, 6-8 mm. in diameter, the calyx-limb at length 

 deciduous. 



Coppices and scrub-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco, Great Bahama 

 and Andros to the Caicos Islands and Inagua : Florida ; Cuba ; Jamaica ; Hispani- 

 ola ; Mona ; St. Thomas. Common Velvet-seed. 



9. STENOSTOMUM Gaertn. f. Fr. & Sem. 3: 69. 1805. 



Mostly glabrous shrubs or trees, often resinous, with opposite leaves and 

 small, sessile or short-pedicelled flowers secund on the branches of axillary 

 peduncled cymes. Calyx-tube mostly ovoid, its 4-5-toothed or nearly truncate 

 limb persistent. Corolla salverform or funnelform, its 4 or 5 lobes imbricated. 

 Stamens 4 or 5, borne on the throat of the corolla ; filaments short or filiform ; 

 anthers linear. Ovary 2-6-celled; ovules 1 in each cavity; style slender; 

 stigma capitate or lobed. Fruit a small, 2-6-celled drupe. [Greek, narrow 

 mouth.] About 15 species, natives of the West Indies. Type species: Steno- 

 stomum lucidum (Sw.) Gaertn. f. 



Leaves thin, manifestly petioled. 1. 8. lucidum. 



Leaves thick, sessile or nearly so. 



Leaves elliptic to obovate-oblong, 3 cm. long or less. 2. 8. myrtifolium. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 4-9 cm. long. 3. 8. densiflorum. 



1. Stenostomum lucidum (Sw.) Gaertn. f. Fr. & Sem. 3: 69. 1805. 



Lauaeria lucida Sw. Prodr. 48. 1788. 



Antirrhoea lucida Benth. & Hook. Gen. PL 2: 100. 1873. 



A smooth-barked tree, 5-13 m. high, or often a shrub, with slender spread- 

 ing glabrous gray branches. Leaves elliptic to oblong, chartaceous, glabrous, 

 4-10 cm. long, obtuse or aeutish at the apex, obtuse or narrowed at the base, 

 bright green, shining, pinnately veined, the petioles 4-10 mm. long; stipules 

 narrowly lanceolate, puberulent, about 8 mm. long; inflorescence glabrous, 

 shorter than or equalling the leaves, the branches of the cyme few, very slen- 

 der; flowers sessile; calyx turbinate, 5-toothed, about 2.5 mm. long, the teeth 

 rounded; corolla white, 4-5 mm. long, with 5 rounded lobes; drupe oblong, 

 red to black, 5-7 mm. long, crowned by the calyx-limb. 



Coppices and scrub-lands, Andros, New Providence and Cat Island to Great 

 Ragged Island, Inagua and Mariguana : Cuba to St. Thomas and St. Croix ; Jamaica ; 

 recorded south to Trinidad. Shining Stenostomum. 



