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pubescent outside, the tube short. 2 mm. long, the lobes ."">. imbricate, narrowly 

 oblong, about 8 mm*, long, 2 mm. wide. Stamens 5, inserted on the throat of the 

 corolla; filaments short, flattened, glabrous; anthers 8 nun. long, linear, aagitate 

 at the base. Ovary 2-celled, each eell l-ovuled; style minutely pubescent below. 

 (2704 Meyer) February. 1905. In forests at 700 m. Iwora meyeri Elmer in 



herb. 



20. PSYCHOTRIA Linn. 



1. Psychotria bataanensis Elmer, n. Bp. in herb. 



A shrub 1 to 2 in. high, the branches gray or brown, glabrous, the younger 



parts rather densely dark brown pubescent. Leaves oblong-obovate, opposite the 

 apex rounded, strongly narrowed below to the narrowly subtruneate somewhat 

 cordate or auriculate base. 7 to 13 cm. long, "2..") to 6 cm. wide, brownish when 

 dry, glabrous and somewhat shining above, pubescent or puheruleul on the nerves 

 beneath, subeoriaceous ; nerves very prominent beneath, about 20 on each side 



of the midrib, parallel, slightly curved upwards, anastomosing near the margin, 



the reticulations not prominent; petioles I .."> to 2.;i em. long, pubescent: stipules 

 Bubglabrous, rigid, acute, deciduous, about s mm. Idng. Inflorescence terminal, 

 dense, about 1 cm. long ill anthesis, 2 to :5 cm. long in infrutescencc. the branches 

 densely brown pubescent. Flowers white. Calyx pubescent, turbinate. :5 mm. 

 long, somewhat obscurely -Ltoothed. Corolla glabrous except the pilose throat. 

 subcampanulate, the segments 4, obtuse, thick, stamens 4: filaments about 1 mm. 

 iQHg, glabrous; anthers 1 nun. long, broad; style short, glabrous; fruit red. 

 2-celled obovoid. about (i nun. long. 4 mm. in diameter, obscurely ridged, somewhat 

 pubescent, clustered at the ends of the 1 to 1..") cm. long peduncles; pyrenes one 

 in each cell, the base pointed, the apex rounded, the ventral surface Hat. the 

 dorsal surface :5 to 6 ridged. 



(3180,3766 Merrill) October, January; (214 Whitford) May. (2078 Borden) 

 Xovember; (1508 Ahern'a OoUector) .Inly; (6980 Elmer) November. On exposed 

 ridges in the mossy forest 700 to 1.100 in. 



2. Psychotria diffusa .Merrill. Bp. nov. 



Subseandent. Branches dark brown, glabrous, striate, shining, the younger 

 parts with few scattered more or less crisped hairs. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 glabrous, or the younger ones with few crisped hairs on the midrib beneath. 4 to 

 !) cm. long, 1 to 3.5 cm. wide, long acuminate, the base acute, siihmembranous. 

 somewhat shining; nerves about (i on each side of the midrib, somewhat prom- 

 inent beneath, the reticulations lax; petioles slender, about ."> mm. long: stipules 

 broad, membranous, deciduous, 5 to S nun. long. Inflorescence terminal, lax. 

 spreading, 15 cm. long or often very much shorter, the axis and branches with 

 few crisped hairs, becoming glabrous or nearly so. the latter slender, spreading 

 or ascending, subtended by small ovate bracts. Flowers small, greenish, fragrant. 

 Sessile or short pediceled in clusters of threes at the ends of the ultimate branch- 

 lets, subtended by small bracteoles. Calyx glabrous. 2 mm. long, with 6 small 

 teeth. Corolla about 1 .){ mm. long, glabrous outside, lubular. cleft to about the 

 middle into 5 acute lobes. Stamens ;">, the anthers less than 0.5 nun. long. 

 Ovary 2-celled, each cell ]-ovuled; style glabrous about 1 mm. long, slightly 

 thickened above, the stigma slightly bilobed. Fruit narrowly obovoid. white 

 when mature, glabrous, .'i To 4 nun. long, 2-cclled. each cell I -seeded, or by abor- 

 tion I -eel led and l-seeded; seed flattened on the ventral surface, convex on the 

 dorsal surface, slightly rugose, not or very obscurely 2 to :i ridged. 



(162, 1187, 1208 Whit ford) May. March; (6811 Elmer) November. Also 

 No. 6268 Elmer, Sablan, Province of Benguet, Luzon, April, L904, and No. 930 

 Whitford, Mount Banahao, Province of Tayabas, Luzon, October, 1904. On exposed 



ridges in the mossy forest above 1.100 m. Identified by Mr. Elmer in herb, as 

 Ptyohotria celastroidea Griseb., a West Indian species. 



