454 The Philippine Journal of Science 1920 
LUZON, Tayabas Province, Mount Binuang, Bur. Sci. 28828 
(type) Ramos & Edaio, May 11, 1917; Mount Tulaog, Ramos & 
Edano s. n., May 24, 1917, along small streams in damp forests. 
This species is remarkable for its unusually large leaves, which 
attain a length of 55 cm in the specimens examined. It is 
further strikingly characterized by its short petioles, very large 
and conspicuous stipules, and its narrow partial inflorescences, 
the inflorescence consisting of three branches, their peduncular 
portions greatly elongated. Fruiting material will probably 
show it to belong in the section Grumilea. 
PSYCHOTRIA NAGAPATENSIS sp. nov. 
_Frutex erectus, ramulis et petiolis et subtus foliis ad costa 
dense subadpresse castaneo-hirsutis, ramis tenuibus, glabris, 
ramulis tenuissimis, circiter 1 mm diametro; foliis chartaceis, 
oblongis ad oblongo-oblanceolatis, usque ad 5 cm longis, nitidis, 
acutis. vel obtusis, vel leviter acuminatis, basi cuneatis, nervis 
utrinque circiter 6, subtus distinctis; fructibus terminalibus, 
paucis, fasciculatis vel valde depauperato-cymosis, brevissime 
pedicellatis, laevis, anguste obovoideis, circiter 6 mm longis. 
An erect, much-branched shrub, the branches slender, glabrous, 
the branchlets very slender, densely castaneous-hirsute with 
short, subappressed hairs as are the petioles and the midrib on 
the lower surface of the leaves. Leaves chartaceous, oblong to 
oblong-oblanceolate, more or less brownish when dry, shining, 
4 to 5 cm long, 1.3 to 2 em wide, the apex acute, obtuse, or 
somewhat acuminate, base cuneate; lateral nerves 6 on each side 
of the midrib, slender, distinct on the lower surface, anastomos- 
ing, the reticulations lax, evanescent; petioles 5 to 7 mm long. 
Infructescences terminal, very short, the fruits few, either 
fascicled or in very greatly reduced cymes, the peduncle, when 
present, not exceeding 2 mm in length, 2 to 5 fruits at the tip 
of each branchlet; fruits narrowly obovoid, glabrous, dark- 
brown or black when dry, smooth, glabrous, shining, not at 
all ridged or sulcate, about 6 mm long, subsessile or very shortly 
pedicellate, the pedicels not exceeding 1 mm in length. 
Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, Mount Nagapatan, Bur. Sci. 
33193 Ramos, August 8, 1918, on dry slopes, altitude about 700 
meters. 
This species is well characterized by its small leaves and its 
fascicled or at most very depauperate-cymose, small, non-sulcate 
fruits. It apparently belongs in the section Grumilea, although 
