Stenostomum shaferi (Urb.) Borhidi & M. Fernández

Antirhea shaferi Urban, Repert. Sp. Nov. 13: 479. 191,5
Branches dark-brown or grayish, the branchlets stout, glabrous, not resinous; .stipules ovatedeltoid, 2-4 mm. long, acute, glabrous, early deciduous; petioles stout, 4—8 mm. long, glabrous; leaf-blades elliptic-oblong, usually narrowly so, 4.5-10 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, sometimes as much as 14 cm. long and 4.5 cm. wide, broadest at the middle, gradually narrowed to the obtuse apex, acute or attenuate at the base, thick-coriaceous, glabrous, sublustrous, green above, the costa deeply impressed, the nerves obsolete, brownish beneath, the costa prominent, the lateral nerves mostly obscure, 7-10 on each side, nearly straight, the veins obsolete, the margin recurved or revolute; cymes once or twice bifid, the branches 1-2 cm. long, 6-9-flowered, the peduncles 1.5-4 cm. long, the flowers sessile, ebracteolate ; fruit oblong or oblong-turbinate, 8-10 mm. long, 3-5 mm. thick, 2-celled.
Type locality: Near Woodfred, Sierra Nipe, Oriente. Cuba, altitude 400-550 meters. Distribution: Thickets, Oriente, Cuba.

Antirhea obovata fBritton) Standley
Stenoslomum obovatum Brittun, Buii. Torrey Club 44: 35. 1917.
A straggling tree, the branches slender, grayish-brown, the branchlets glabrous; stipules deciduous; petioles stout, 3-5 mm. long; leaf-blades oblong-obovate, 3-6.2 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, rounded at the apex, obtuse or acutish at the base, thick-coriaceous, glabrous, concolorous, the costa impressed above, very prominent beneath, the lateral nerves plane, obscure, reticulate, the margin revolute; inflorescences bifurcate, the branches short, few-flowered, the peduncles 2-2.5 cm. long, the flowers sessile, biseriate; fruit oval, 10-1 1 mm. long, 5-7 mm. thick, 2-celled, black, with fleshy exocarp.
Type locality: Camp La Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, Oriente, Cuba. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.