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brown or reddish-brown, 4 to 5 mm in diameter. Leaves oblong 
to oblong-ovate, firmly chartaceous or subcoriaceous, 11 to 14 cm 
long, 5 to 7.5 em wide, brownish-olivaceous when dry, the lower 
surface paler than the upper, both shining, base rounded, apex 
rather prominently acuminate; lateral nerves about 14 on each 
side of the midrib, curved-spreading, anastomosing near the 
margin, prominent, the primary reticulations lax, very distinct; 
petioles 1 to 2.5 cm long; stipules deciduous, the scars prom- 
inent. Inflorescence terminal, paniculate, including the pe- 
duncle about 16 cm long, the peduncle about 8 em long, glabrous, 
the branchlets and flowers gray-puberulent, the branches few, 
the lower pair about 6 cm long, branched above the middle, the 
inflorescence about 11 cm wide. Flowers puberulent externally, 
about 8 mm long, pedicelled. Calyx about 2 mm in diameter, 
rather shallow, distinctly toothed. Corolla-tube slightly enlarged 
upward, about 5 mm long, the lobes oblong, obtuse, about 2.5 
mm long. 
MINDANAO, Surigao Province, Hinatuan, C. V. Piper 518, 
May 16, 1911. Dinagat, Bur. Sci. 35188 Ramos & Pascasio. 
In forests at low altitudes. 
This species is apparently allied to Psychotria ramosissima 
Elm. and P. lianoides Elm., and distinctly nearer the latter. It 
differs, however, among other characters, in its longer flowers 
and densely puberulent inflorescences. 
PSYCHOTRIA PYGMAEA sp. nov. 
Frutex erectus, circiter 30 cm altus, parce ramosus, glaber; 
foliis chartaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-obovatis, usque ad 10 cm 
longis, nitidis, breviter petiolatis, acutis, basi cuneatis, nervis 
utrinque circiter 8, distinctis, reticulig obscuris vel subobsoletis; 
infructescentiis, fructibus exceptis, haud 1 cm longis, tricho- 
tomis, ramis brevissimis; fructibus oblongo-ellipsoideis, cir- 
citer 7 mm longis, breviter pedicellatis, longitudinaliter gulcatis; 
pyrenis plano-convexis, perspicue 4-carinatis, albumine aequabile. 
An erect, sparingly branched, glabrous shrub or undershrub, 
about 30 cm high, the stems terete, not more than 4 mm in 
diameter. Leaves oblong, rarely somewhat oblong-obovate, 
chartaceous, shining, the upper surface usually olivaceous, the 
lower usually brown tinged with red when dry, 6 to 10 cm long, 
2 to 3.5 em wide, the apex acute, base gradually narrowed, 
cuneate; lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, 
slender but distinct, curved, obscurely anastomosing, the reticu- 
lations obscure or subobsolete; petioles 2 mm long or less; 
