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RAN, Bur. Sci. 18809 McGregor. LEYTE, For. Bur. 16980 Rosenbluth, Wenzel 
280. MINDANAO, District of Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 534, 
1048, 8. n.: District of Zamboanga, Hallier s. n.; Province of Agusan, Elmer 
13389. 
The type of Bartling’s species is a specimen in flower, and a very 
excellent carbon rubbing showing the outline of the leaf and its venation 
is before me. Specimens bearing both flowers and fruits, and which 
absolutely match Bartling’s type specimen and the original description 
present the typical fruits of Psychotria, not of Chasalia. The mature 
fruits are ovoid to subellipsoid, 6 to 7 mm long, the pericarp rather prom- 
inently ridged when dry, the pyrenes plano-convex or somewhat concavo- 
convex, the dorsal surfaces prominently, longitudinally, about 5-ridged, 
the ridges rather sharp, the depressions rounded.. 
Var. ELMERI var. nov. 
Chasalia rostrata Elm. Leafi. Philip. Bot. 1 (1906) 38, non Migq. 
This form differs from the type in its obovate to obovate-oblong leaves 
which are abruptly and prominently acuminate, and its somewhat fewer 
nerves. In the type, that is Bartling’s original specimen, there are about 
15 pairs of lateral nerves; in the present form from 9 to 11 pairs, but in 
the material above referred to the species the nerves vary from 8 to 15 
pairs. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Atimonan, Merrill 4083; Kabibihan, Bur. 
Sci. 18238 Ramos; Tagcauayan, Bur. Sci. 13336 Ramos. 
Chasalia rostrata Miq. was credited to the Philippines by Mr. Elmer 
without citing any specimens; the one specimen so written up by him was 
Merrill 4088. This specimen, however, does not closely resemble Chasalia 
rostrata Migq., and is certainly a Psychotria. 
PSYCHOTRIA CHASALIOIDES sp. nov. 
Frutex circiter 1 m altus, glaber; inflorescentiis terminalibus, 
brevibus, breviter pedunculatis, 1 ad 2.5 cm longis, paucifloris; 
floribus circiter 3 mm longis; foliis membranaceis, lanceolatis 
ad oblongo-lanceolatis, tenuiter acuminatis, usque ad 15 cm 
longis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque circiter 8; fructibus carno- 
sis, obovoideis, 8 ad mm longis, pyrenis obovoideis, apice rotun- 
datis, basi acutis, plano-convexis, dorso distincte 3-carinato, 
albumine haud ruminato. 
A shrub or undershrub usually about 1 m high, glabrous, the 
branches terete, smooth, olivaceous. Leaves lanceolate to ob- 
long-lanceolate, membranaceous, 9 to 15 cm long, 2 to 4 cm 
wide, subequally narrowed to the slenderly acuminate apex and 
the acute base, olivaceous and somewhat shining when dry, 
the lower surface a little paler than the upper; lateral nerves 
about 8 on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct, curved, 
prominently anastomosing; petioles 4 to 16 mm long. Inflor- 
-escence terminal, paniculate, shortly peduncled, 1 to 2.5 cm long, 
few flowered, the flowers sessile, rather crowded on the few 
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