438 MEKRILL. 
PSYCHOTRIA Limi. 
Psychotria cephalophora Merrill si> nov. 
Arbuscula erecta, glabra; folii.^ meinbranaceis vel submenibranaceis, 
elliptieo-oblongis vel obovato-ellipticis, utrinqiie acuminatis, 11 ad 15 cm 
longis, nervis iitrinqne circiter 13; fructibus glabris, 5 mm loiigis, pedi- 
cellatis, in capitula globosa, 2.5 cm diametro congestis. 
An enxit glabrous shrub, the branches gray, terete, the branchlets 
brown, lenticellate, terete or slightly compressed. Leaves membranous 
or submembranous, elliptical-oblong or ovate-elliptical, 11 to 15 cm long, 
5 to 7 em wide, glabrous, the base somewhat acuminate, the apex rather 
abruptly and sharply acuminate; nerves prominent on both surfaces, 
about 13 on each side of the midrib, parallel, somewhat curved, the 
reticulations indistinct; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm long. Flowers unknown. 
Fruit obovoid, smooth, glabrous, not ridged, about 5 mm long, the 
pedicels about 5 mm long, arranged in a rather dense terminal globose 
head about 2.5 cm in diameter; seeds hemispherical, not ridged. 
Camiguin, in forests, Bur. Sci. JfO/jS F4nix, June 27, 1907. 
A species well characterized by its congested inflorescence, forming, in fruit, a 
terminal subglobose head about 2.5 cm in diameter. 
P. manillensis Bartl. 
Babuyan, S908 F^nix. Batan, S6//8 Fenix, typical forms, agreeing with the 
type in Herb, Prague. 
Known only from the Philippines where it \^ not uncommon. 
GEOPHILA Don. 
G. herbacea (Jacq.) O. Ktz. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3816 Fenix. 
Tropics of the World. 
LASIANTHUS Jack. 
L. obliquinervis Alerr. 
Camiguin, J07// F4nix, 
Rather widely distributed in the Philippines; endemic. 
PAEDERIA Linn. 
P. tomentosa Blume. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 32^1 Mearun; 3701 Fenix. 
Common and widely distributed in the Philippines; eastern India to Japan 
and Formosa, the ^falay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
MORINDA Linn. 
M. bracteata Hoxb. 
CAitiGUix, 3019 Fenix. Sabtan, 3736 Fenix. 
Very common and widely distributed in the Philippines; tropical Asia, Malaya 
and northern Australia. 
M. papvifolia Bartl. in DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 449. 
M. cuminyiana A'id. Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 184. 
Litcimaea cumingiana Vid. I. c. 216; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 152. 
Babuyan, S92Jt Fenix. Camiguin, Jtll9 Fenix. 
I have examined the type of Bartling's species in TTorb. Prague, which was 
