520 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. 11, Art 24 
smooth, greenish, breaking with a snap; branches mostly to- 
ward the top, at right angles to the stem, only sparingly 
rebranched, entirely glabrous. Leaves flat, subcoriaceous, 
glabrous and dark lucid green above, much paler and pubes- - 
cent beneath, horizontally spreading but occasionally subdeflex- TN 
ed, opposite, in distichous rows, about 5 cm. apart, oblongish 
elliptic, gradually tapering to the acute apex, base suboblique, 
margins entire and subinvolute at least in the dry state, 
obliquely rounded or at the very base minutely auriculate; 
nerves very prominent beneath, pinnate, ascending, united 
submarginally, the cross bars quite conspicuous, 5 to 7 lateral 
pairs; petiole thick, pubescent, 5 mm. long; stipule 8 mm. 
long, acuminate, pubescent. Jnírutescence sessile in the leaf 
axils; involucral bracts very unequal, the larger ones 2 cm. 
long, slenderly acuminate, olivaceous pubescent, striate, en- 
tire; fruits globose or subellipsoid, nearly 5 mm. in diameter, 
short pedicelled, the apex crowned by the short calyx tube 
which in most cases still bears the 5 ciliate teeth; corolla 
white, rather broad and short, united below the middle, the 
5 segments ultimately strongly reflexed, deciduous; drupe 
with a juicy azure blue skin, foetid, 5-seeded; the stones 
4 mm. long, frequently unequal in thickness, the ventral 2 
sides plane, the dorsal convex, straw brown. 
Type specimen 9687, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 1908. 
This low undershrub was discovered in woods near a 
wind swept ridge at 3500 feet. 
Not L. copelandi Elm. which has thinner and more numer- 
ous leaves with pubescent upper surfaces and twigs densely 
pubescent. 
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.. PSYCHOTRIA Linn. 
Psychotria negrosensis Elm. n. sp. 
vem shrub, 2 to 3 m. high; its wood whitish, soft, 
covered with smooth mottled bark; twigs suberect, slender, 
sparse, grayish brown, the younger arts 
Leaves smooth and gi nger p green and glabrous. 
bá 5 abrous on both sides, much darker 
rai r vide ua) flat, opposite, mostly toward the 
de vendus den — oblong to subelliptic, apex abruptly acute, 
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