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branchlets. Calyx oblong-cylindric, base narrowed, about 2 mm 
long, the teeth obscure. Corolla-tube cylindric, 2 mm long, gla- 
brous outside, villous within, the lobes spreading or reflexed, 
oblong-ovate, obtuse, 1.5 mm long, puberulent on the inner sur- 
face. Anthers 0.8 mm long. Style 3 mm long. Fruit red or 
purple when mature, the pericarp fleshy, obovoid, 8 to 9 mm 
long, distinctly ridged when dry. Pyrenes oblong-obovoid, 
plano-convex, 7 to 9 mm long, apex rounded, base acute, the 
back rather coarsely and prominently 3-ridged or keeled, the 
albumen not at all ruminate. 
SIBUYAN, Elmer 12314 (type), April, 1910, distributed as Chasalia mem- 
branifolia. MiNnporOo, Mount Halcon, Merrill 5576; Mount Sablayan, For. 
Bur. 11028, 12090 Merritt, in forests, from 600 to 1,800 meters altitude. 
This species is manifestly allied to Psychotria membranifolia Bartl., 
from which it differs in its much narrower leaves, its more or less obovoid 
fruits, and its pyrenes 3-, not 5-ridged. 
PSYCHOTRIA LEPTOTHYRSA Mig. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 4 (1868) 
208; Valeton in Ic. Bogor. 3 (1909) 288, t. 285. 
Psychotria beccariti K. Sch. in K. Sch. & Hollr. Fl. Kais. Wilhelmsil. 
(1889) 135. 
Coelospermum ahernianum Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 1 (1906) 3. 
The reduction of Coelospermum ahernianum Elm. was made by Valeton, 
l. c. 285 by citation of the type number of Elmer’s species. In checking 
up this number in the herbarium of the Bureau of Science it was found 
that Ahern 164, cited by Valeton, was a species of Tabernaemontana. 
Accordingly I wrote to Dr. Valeton, who courteously looked up the specimen 
and reported that he had cited Ahern 164 by error, and that Ahern 196 
was the sheet intended; this latter number is the type collection of Coelos- 
permum ahernianum. 
Our specimen of Ahern 196 agrees with Valeton’s figure and descrip- 
tion in all respects, and also agrees with Javan material in the herbarium 
of the Bureau of Science (cult. Hort. Bogor. III, L, 48), and determined 
by Valeton. The species is represented by the following Philippine material: 
LuzZON, Province of Camarines, Ahern 196 (type of Coelospermum aher- 
nianum Elm.), For. Bur. 10792 Curran. MINDANAO, Butuan Subprovince, 
Weber 1008 (probably). 
Java to Luzon and New Guinea. 
PSYCHOTRIA MEARNSII sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, ramulis inflorescentiisque plus minusve hir- 
sutus; foliis numerosis, oblongis, subcoriaceis, in siccitate brun- 
neis, usque ad 2.5 cm longis, acuminatis, basi subacutis, nervis 
utrinque 4 vel 5; paniculis terminalibus, circiter 4 cm longis, 
pyramidatis, ramis primariis patulis; fructibus ovoideis, circiter 
4.5 mm longis, in siccitate longitudinaliter sulcatis; seminibus 
plano-convexis, dorso prominente longitudinaliter 3-sulcato vel 
carinato, albumine aequabile. 
