52 The Philippine Journal of Science 1913 
A small tree about 5 m in height, glabrous throughout except 
the slightly and obscurely pubescent panicles. Branches light- 
reddish-brown, or somewhat grayish, terete, slightly striate when 
dry. Leaves lanceolate to rather broadly lanceolate, chartaceous, 
10 to 16 cm long, 2.4 to 4.5 cm wide, rather pale and somewhat 
shining when dry, of about the same color on both surfaces, 
gradually narrowed and acuminate at both ends, the apex sharply 
acuminate; nerves about 13 on each side of the midrib, nearly 
straight, somewhat ascending, anastomosing and forming a rather 
faint, looped, submarginal nerve, obscure above, rather distinct 
on the lower surface, the reticulations rather lax; petioles 1 to 
1.4 cm long; stipules very short, truncate. Panicles terminal, 
subpyramidal, rather lax, in fruit about 6 cm long, shortly pedun- 
cled, the lower branches spreading, 2.5 cm long, obscurely pubes- 
cent. Flowers unknown. Fruits obovoid, about 8 mm long, 
5.5 to 7 mm in diameter, apex rounded, base gradually narrowed, 
the pericarp when dry not ridged, or very faintly so, the seeds 
plano-convex, not at all ridged or sulcate. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Casambalangan, For, Bur, 15^91 Ber- 
nardo, April, 1910, in forests at an altitude of about 10 m, locally known 
as tutulang. 
A species somewhat resembling Psychotria pinnatinervia Elm., but dis- 
tinguishable at once by its plano-convex, not ridged or grooved seeds, and 
not closely allied to that species. It is probably more closely allied to 
P. lugoniensis F.-Vill., but is quite different from that species. 
PSYCHOTRIA GRACILIPES sp. nov. 
Frutex erectus, glaber, circiter 2.5 m altus; floribus chartaceis 
vel subcoriaceis, oblongo-ellipticis, utrinque angustatis, breviter 
acuminatis, usque ad 9 cm longis, nervis utrinque 10 ad 12, sub- 
rectis, patulis; petiolo 0.7 ad 1.5 cm longo; inflorescentiis termi- 
nalibus, depauperato-umbellatis, pedunculis gracilibus, circiter 5 
mm longis; fructibus ellipsoideis, 5 ad 6 mm longis, leviter longi- 
tudinaliter sulcatis, pyrenis plano-convexis, 5 mm longis, ovoi- 
deis, acutis, obscure carinatis, 5-aulcatis. 
An erect. shrub about 2.5 m high, quite glabrous. Branches 
slender, terete, grayish-brown, the ultimate ones 1 to 1.5 mm in 
diameter. Leaves chartaceous or subcoriaceous, oblong-elliptic, 
subequally narrowed at both ends, 5 to 9 cm long, 1,5 to 2,5 cm 
wide, slightly shining, of about the same color on both surfaces 
when dry, apex shortly acuminate, base acute; nerves 10 to 12 
on each side of the midrib, nearly straight, spreading at first, 
curved-anastomosing near the margins, the reticulations indi- 
stinct; petioles 7 to 15 mm long. Inflorescence terminal, or in 
the uppermost axils; umbellate, aoDarentlv fpw-flowPvoH +1.^ 
