Stenostomum apiculatum Britton & Standl.

Laugeria hotteana Urban, Ark. Bot. 20A^: 58. 1926
A middle-sized tree, the young branchlets glabrous, covered at the apex with yellowish resin, elsewhere covered with a thin, pale, sometimes granular resin, the older branches obtusely quadrangular, the internodes 5-8 cm. long; stipule-tube truncate, 6-8 mm. long, appressedpilose; petioles resinous, 4-6 mm. long, densely short-pilose; leaf-blades oval to oval-oblong, 6-9 cm. long, 2.5-4.5 cm. wide, very obtuse or almost rounded at the apex and shortly acuminate-apiculate, rounded at the base, coriaceous, the costa stout, impressed above, the lateral nerves 7-9 on each side, impressed above, prominent beneath, divergent at an angle of 65-70°, arcuate, the veins obscure, domatiate beneath in the axils of the nerves, hispidulous, the hairs mostly held close to the surface by the resinous exudate, glabrous on the upper surface ; flowers and fruit unknown.
Type locality: Morne de la Hotte, mountains west of Ma Blanche, Haiti, altitude 1400 m. Distribution: Region of the type locality, at 1300-1400 meters.

Laugeria apiculata (Britton & vStandl.) Urban & Ekman; Urban, Ark. Bot. 20A5: 58. 1926.
StenosLomum apiciilalum Britton & Standley; Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 50: 50. 1923.
A shrub or small tree, the branchlets .stout, densely leafy toward the tips, densely covered with i^ale resin, the internodes short, the older branchlets subterete, fuscous; stipule-sheath 5 mm. long, truncate, densely strigose; petioles stout, 5-12 mm. long, short-pilose and densely resinous; leaf-blades elliptic, 4.5-7 cm. long, 2.5-4 cm. wide, rigid-coriaceous, obtuse and acuminate-apiculate, obtuse or acutish at the base, green and lustrous above, glabrous, the costa depressed, slightly paler or brownish beneath, sparsely hispidulous, resinous, the slender costa prominent, the lateral nerves about 9 on each side, slender, ])rominent, arcuate, distant, the
* Laug,eria Vahl, 1796, is antedated by Laugeria L.. treated by all modern authors as a synonym of Giiellarda (see page 228); technically, tlierefore, the name Laugeria as here used is not valid, but the writer hopes that it may ultimately he placed upon the list jf nomina conservanda, as no other name has ever been applied to this Kemis since it was lirst published in 1796. veins obscure, the margin plane or suhrevolute, domatiaUbeneath in the axils of the nerves; peduncles slender, 2-3 cm, lonj?, the 2 branches 1-2.5 cm. long, 10-12-flowered, appressedpilosulous; calyx and hypanthium 1-1.5 mm. long, strigillose or glabrate, the calyx-teeth short, obtuse; corolla pale-yellow, densely strigillose outside, 7 mm. long, the lobes very obtuse, half as long as the tube; filaments very short, the anthers oblong-linear, equaling the corollatube; stigma 4-lobate.
Type locality: Sierra Maestra, Oriente, Cuba. Distribution: Stony slopes. Sierra Maestra, Oriente, Cuba.

Laugeria lineolata iTban, Ark. Bot. 20A^: 58. 1926
A small tree, the young branchlets glabrate, resinous, the older ones subquadrangular, plicate-striate, the internodes 0.5-1 cm. long; stipule-tube truncate, 4 mm. long, minutely appressed-pilose; petioles stout, 6-8 mm. long, pilosulous; leaf-blades elliptic-oblong or elliptic, 4.5-6.5 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide, short-acuminate or acute, acute at the base, rather thinly coriaceous, resinous, green and lustrous above, the costa scarcely impressed, somewhat paler beneath, the slender costa prominent, the lateral nerves 4 or 5 on each side, slender, prominent, ascending at an angle of 50°, domatiate beneath in the axils of the nerves, the lower surface finely and conspicuously lineolate with i)ale hair-like lines, the margin plane; peduncles axillary, 2-4 cm. long, the 2 branches 2.3 cm. long or less, with 6 or fewer flowers, recurved; hypanthium cylindraccous, thick; calyx-lobes triangular, 0.5 mm. long; corolla 7 mm. long, glabrous, the tube reddish, slightly dilated upward, the 4 lobes yellow, oval, rounded at the apex, one third as long as the tube; filaments very short, inserted in the upper third of the tube, the anthers linear, 1.5 mm. long; style 2.8 mm. long, the very short stigmas ovate-oblong.
TypB locality: Massif de la Selle, hillside thickets between Morne Tranchant and Morne Brouet, Riviere Thebaud, Haiti, at 1400 meters.
Distribution: Mountains of Haiti, at an elevation of about 1400 meters.