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A glabrous tree, about 8 m high, the branches and branchlets 
smooth, brown, the latter compressed and sulcate, the internodes 
up to 8cmin length. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, brown 
and shining when dry, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, 15 to 25 cm 
long, 4.5 to 6 cm wide, narrowed upward to the prominently long- 
acuminate apex, the base acute to somewhat decurrent-acuminate; 
lateral nerves about 5 on each side of the midrib, prominent, 
curved-ascending, evanescent, the reticulations obsolete; petioles 
1.5 to 2 cm long; stipules broadly triangular, acuminate, about 5 
mm long. Inflorescences axillary, solitary, peduncled, the pe- 
duncles 1 to 1.5 cm long, spreading or recurved, bearing at their 
tips a pair of prominent bracts, the basal portions of the bracts 
broadly ovate, about 5 mm in diameter, abruptly cuspidate-acum- 
inate, the projecting tip about 5 mm long. Flowers subtended 
by the bracts, umbellately arranged, up to 25 in each inflorescence, 
greenish-white, their pedicels about 6 mm long. Buds cylindric, 
6 mm long. Calyx-teeth lanceolate, acuminate, 1.38 mm long. 
Corolla-tube 4 mm long, bearded within, the lobes 4, oblong- 
lanceolate, acute or slightly acuminate, about 2 mm long. Stigma 
capitate. Anthers 1.4 mm long, ellipsoid. 
Luzon, Apayao Subprovince, Ngagan, Bur. Sci. 28117 Féniz, 
May 10, 1917, on forested. slopes, locally known as apaypay. 
A species well characterized by its axillary, solitary, con- 
spicuously bracteate, peduncled, subcapitate inflorescences, 
PSYCHOTRIA Linnaeus 
PSYCHOTRIA AMPLISSIMA Sp. nov. 
Frutex circiter 1 m altus, glaber; foliis magnis, usque ad 
30 cm longis et 14 cm latis, ellipticis ad late oblongo-obovatis, 
subcoriaceis, nitidis, apice obtusis ad rotundatis, basi angustatis, 
cuneatis, nervis utrinque circiter 24, subtus valde prominentibus; 
stipulis lanceolatis, acuminatis, subcoriaceis, 3 ad 3.5 cm longis; 
cymis terminalibus, e basi ramosis, floribus circiter 5 mm longis, 
in ramis ultimis plus minusve confertis. | 
A shrub, about 1 m high, quite glabrous, the branches ap- 
parently terete. Leaves elliptic to broadly oblong-obovate, about 
30 cm long and 14 em wide, somewhat pale and shining when 
dry, subcoriaceous, the apex obtuse to broadly rounded, base 
narrowed, cuneate or decurrent-acuminate; lateral nerves about 
24 on each side of the midrib, very prominent on the lower 
surface, Spreading-curved, anastomosing close to the margin, 
the primary reticulations rather lax, distinct; petioles 5 to 7 cm 
long; stipules subcoriaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, brownish 
