< 522 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. 11, ART 24 
blades 5 em. long by 2 em. wide across the middle, but 
most of them smaller especially toward the apex, the smaller 
ones lanceolate, the larger ones elliptic or very broadly lanceo- 
late, entire, apex acute to acuminate, base obtuse or rounded; 
nerves 4 to 6 pairs, quite conspicuous beneath, glabrous, 
ascendingly curved; petiole glabrous, 8 to 5 mm. long; stipule 
3 to 5 mm. long, dry, thin, brown, deciduous, intrapetiolar. 
Inflorescence terminal, glabrous, paniculate, 8 cm. long; pn- 
mary peduncles usually 3, but in the smaller ones solitary, 
divaricately branched above the middle; pedicels subtended 
by apiculate bracts; calyx glabrous, the basal 8 mm. stipitate, 
the upper 2 mm. cup shaped and obscurely 5-apiculate; corolla 
white, at least 4 mm. long, tubular, finally parted into 5 
acute or obtuse segments, glabrous except the dense white 
woolly fringe about the throat; stamens 5, alternating with 
the segments and inserted upon the throat; filaments glabrous, 
equalling the anthers; anthers 0.75 mm. long, ellipsoid, at- 
tached to the rather prominent connective; style slender, 
glabrous, 2.5 mm. long, the clavate stigma becoming cleft; 
ovary with a prominent disk, inferior, 2-ovulate; drupe glab- 
rous, 7 mm. long, 4 mm. thick across the middle, bearing 
at the apex a 2 mm. long calyx tube, the base pointed; 
the stony seed plane on the ventral side, obscurely ridged 
. on-the opposite convex side, attached to the thin basal portion. 
Type specimen 10076, 4. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, May, 
1908. | 
This scandent undershrub is quite common in moss laden 
woods at 4500 feet. It usually twines about small tree trunks 
and forms tangled bushes a few meters from the ground. 
Fruits ''snow-berry"' white. 
Not P. sarmentosa Blm., and is separated from P. el- 
liptifolius Elm. by its congested inflorescence, larger flowers, 
leaves larger and more membranous with a different shape; 
and. especially by the much shorter stipules. 
Psychotria microphylla Elm. n. sp. 
A branched climber; twigs quite rigid, glabrous, tough, 
brown. Leaves usually clustered toward the ends of the twigs, 
occasionally more scattering, coriaceous, shining dark green 
