592 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY (Vor. II, ArT. 29 
of the smaller leaves nearly obsolete. Flowers from the up- 
permost leaf axils, subtended by foliaceous bracts, erect or 
ascending, solitary, subsessile; calyx glabrous except the sparse- 
ly ciliate segments, green, not exceeding 8 mm. in length, tur- 
binate, the basal 2 to 3 mm. united, otherwise divided into 5 
setose segments; corolla white or occasionally tinged with 
red, purplish streaked toward the base, glabrous, cylindric 
from below the middle, saccately inflated from a trifle below 
the middle, nearly 1.5 cm. across at the throat, about 2 
em. long, delicate and rather early falling; the 3 lobes 
subequal, broadly rounded; stamens whitish, inserted upon the 
corolla somewhat above the middle; filament 0.5 mm. long; 
anther 1.5 mm. long, subtruncate at the apex, bilobed at 
the base; ovary glabrous, 3 mm. long, elongated; style also 
glabrous, filiform, terminating in a linear stigma; capsule 1 
cm. in length, subglabrous, straw brown in ‘color, linear, 
dehiscing laterally, the halves becoming much recurved, 
about 12-seeded, the seed set in retinacula arranged in al- 
ternating superimposed rows; seeds suborbicular, flattened, 
light brown, finely ciliate along the margin. 
Type specimen 9665, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 
1908. 
This species forms small mats in rock crevices of cliffs 
near the Bonyao river and in well shaded talus beds at 
2500 feet. Known to the natives as ‘‘Pisow-pisow-na-bala- 
gon’’, 
RUBIACEJE. 
PSYCHOTRIA Linn. 
Psychotria diffusa cervina Elm. n. var. 
Primarily distinguished from 152 H. N. Whitford of mount 
Mariveles by the fuligineously colored tomentose  inflores- 
cence. | 
Type specimen 9800, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, April, 
1908. 
eS Collected on a windswept ridge at 4000 feet. 
