Stenostomum
(from stenos, narrow, and stoma, a mouth; alluding to the shape of the flowers). SYNS. Stenostemum, Sturmia. ORD. Rubiaceae. A small genus (about five species) of pretty, small, stove, evergreen trees, natives of the West Indies, now included, by Bentham and Hooker, as a section of the genus Antirrhaea. Flowers white, small, cymose; calyx five-toothed; corolla funnel-shaped, five-lobed; stamens five; peduncles axillary. Leaves opposite, oval or oblong, shortly petiolate; stipules at length deciduous. For culture of the two species introduced, see Hamiltonia.
S. lucidum (clear). fl. distant; peduncles once or twice bifid below or at the middle. May. l. elliptic or elliptic-oblong, chartaceous, 2in. to 3in. long, blunt, shining-glabrous. 1818. A small tree.
S. tomentosum (tomentose). fl. distant; peduncles rather exceeding the leaves, once or twice bifid about the middle. May. l. elliptic, 3in. to 4in. long, glabrous above, velvety-tomentose beneath. 1822. A small tree.