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148 The Philippine Journal of Science 1914 
PSYCHOTRIA Linnaeus 
PSYCHOTRIA MARIANA Bartl. ex DC. Prodr. 4 (1880) 522; Safford 362. 
G. E. S. 86, Mrs. Clemens s. n., McGregor 526, locally known as aploc- 
hating or aploghating. 
Known only from the Marianne Islands, represented also by Volkens 41, 
from the Island of Tinian, distributed as Grumilea. 
PSYCHOTRIA MALASPINAE sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber; foliis chartaceis, usque ad 9 cm _longis, 
acuminatis, basi angustatis, acutis, oblongo-obovatis ad obovato- 
lanceolatis vel subellipticis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, tenuibus, 
anastomosantibus, in siccitate utrinque subconcoloribus nitidis- 
que, olivaceis et plus minusve rubro-brunneis; inflorescentiis 
subterminalibus, brevibus, paucifloris, circiter 2.5 cm longis; 
fructibus circiter 7 mm longis, oblongo-obovoideis, pericarpio 
carnoso; pyrenis rugosis, leviter longitudinaliter carinatis, vix 
sulcatis. 
A glabrous shrub, the branches terete, reddish-brown, the 
younger branchlets slender, with manifest cystoliths. Leaves 
chartaceous, oblong-obovate to obovate-lanceolate or subelliptic, 
6 to 9 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, the apex distinctly acuminate, 
base more or less narrowed, acute, when dry olivaceous and 
usually more or less tinged with reddish-brown, prominently 
shining and of about the same color on both surfaces; lateral 
nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, slender, not prominent, 
anastomosing, the reticulations very lax, slender; petioles 7 to 
10 mm long; stipules very early deciduous. Inflorescence soli- 
tary, subterminal or in the uppermost axils, slender, few-flowered, 
about 2.5 cm long, the primary branches usually three only, the 
flowers white, sessile or subsessile in threes on the ultimate 
branchlets. Calyx somewhat turbinate, truncate or with 4 or 5 
very minute teeth, somewhat narrowed below, about 2 mm long. 
Corolla (from mature buds) 3 mm long, 4-lobed, the throat villous 
inside. Anthers 1 mm long. Fruit 7 to 8 mm long, oblong- 
obovoid, smooth, the pericarp fleshy, apparently red, the apex 
truncate or rounded, base narrowed, acute, the pyrenes hard, 
plano-convex, oblong-elliptic, 6 mm long, 4 mm wide, prominently 
rugose, very obscurely longitudinally keeled, not at all sulcate. 
McGregor 559, Upi Road, October, 1911, in flower (type); Asinan, 
Costenoble 1181 (in U. S. National Herbarium), July, 1906, in fruit, 
locally known as aplokhating palaoan. 
A species somewhat resembling the Caroline Psychotria arbuscula Vol- 
kens, the Polynesian P. insularis A. Gray, and the Malayan P. viridiflora 
Reinw., but quite distinct from all. It seems to be most closely allied to 
the latter. Dedicated to Alessandro Malaspina, commandant of the cor- 
