DucemBerR 14, 1908] THREES Score or New PLANTS 591 
base gradually tapering to the obtuse or subrounded, margins 
entire, 10 cm. long by 4cm. wide across the middle, but frequently 
much smaller; petiole 1 to 2 cm. long, stout, glabrous; nerves 
very prominent beneath, glabrous, ashy gray at least in the 
dry state, greenish white when fresh, the 7 to 9 lateral pairs 
pinnate and obscurely united at their ends; stipule caducous, 
the basal middle portion thick, glabrous, between the petioles, 
2 em. long, the entire margins and apical portion brown, 
apex blunt. Inflorescence terminal, 8 to 5 cm. long, panic- 
ulate; primary peduncles occasionally 3, glabrous, subtended 
by minute bracts, greenish white, subcompressed; secondary 
peduncles stout, divaricate; pedicel subsessile or 8 tc 5 mm. 
long, glabrous; calyx 3.5 mm. long, 8 mm. wide across the 
top, somewhat flattened, glabrous, turbinate, truncaie; corolla 
7 mm. long, glabrous on the exterior, densely woolly on the 
interior about the throat, the basal portion tubular, the upper 
portion divided into 5 obtuse segments; stamens 5, alternating 
with the segments and inserted upon the throat; filaments 
E 0.75 mm. long, glabrous and delicate; anther ellipsoid, 1.5 mm. 
i long, 1 mm. thick, the connective comparatively thick, black 
and rugose, attached and dehiscing ventrally; style slender, 
glabrous, 5 mm. long, bearing a clavate 1 mm. long subentire or 
obscurely lobed stigma; ovary inferior, 2-celled, 2-ovulate, 
topped with a thick disk; fruit not known. 
Type specimen 9686, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 
1908. 
This undershrub was discovered on a very steep rather 
wooded slope at 3500 feet. 
E. ua— Tt has the calyx of P. malayana Jack. From P. luzoniensis (C. 
| et S.) F. Vil., (P. tacpo Rolfe) it differs most vs by 
the very lake stipules. 
È Psychotria cuernosensis Elm. n. sp. 
| Scandent and forming tangled bushes; old steme bicis; Ee 
tough, 2 cm. thick; branchlets green, freely rebranched, lax 
and slender, glabrous. Leaves also glabrous, opposite, scattered - 
along the twigs, subcoriaceous, nearly flat, descending and 
with recurved tips, dark green on the upper side, much paler 
beneath, while drying turning to a reddish brown, the domed 
