64 
mm. in length, free at: the base, gradually tapering from 
near the base to the apex, dehiscing by ventral longitudinal 
slits; style dark brown, its base broadened, slender, a trifle 
pubescent, 5 mm. in length, terminated by a flattened bilobed 
stigma. 
Type specimen 7944, A. D. E. Elmer, Mount Banahao, 
Province of Tayabas, Luzon, April, 1906. Quite common on 
damp moss covered rock ledges and creek beds in the forests 
at 1200 meters. 
Oldenlandia filifolia n. sp. Slender annual, erect, chiefly 
branched from the base. Stems and branches striate, cin- 
ereously strigose or subglabrous. Leaves opposite, linear or fili- 
form, sessile, 2 em. long, edges recurved, glabrous above, minutely 
hirsute below especially along the prominent midvein; stipules 
united, hyaline, its margins slenderly laciniate. Flowers sessile 
or short pedicelled, axillary or terminal, in clusters of 1 to 3 
and subtended by foliaceous bracts; calyx 3 mm. long, ciliate, 
the upper 0.3 divided into 4 sharply acuminate recurved seg- 
ments; tube of corolla hyaline, nerved, pubescent at the 
throat; segments oblong, obtuse, 1.5 mm. long, ultimately 
widely spreading; stamens 4, inserted between the segments 
and upon the throat; filaments glabrous, 1.5 mm. long, out- 
wardly curved; anthers very short, comparatively broad; 
ovary globose, easily separating from the calyx; style persist- 
ent, slender, 3 mm. long, glabrous, the 2 stigmatic arms 
strongly recurved; mature capsule 2 mm. in diameter, a 
trifle longer, hispid ciliate, 2-celled. 
Type specimen 7956, A. D. E. Elmer, Mount Banahao, 
Province of Tayabas, Luzon, April, 1906. In open places of 
rocky soil at the foot of the mountain. 
Psychotria subalpina n. sp. A shrub, 3 to 5 m. high; 
branches smooth, covered with a brown colored bark; wood 
hard and heavy. Leaves mostly toward the ends of the 
twigs, 0.5 to 1.5 em. apart, glabrous, subcoriaceous, oblan- 
ceolate, the larger ones 12 cm. long including the 1 to 2 
em. long glabrous petiole, 2 em. wide, lucid green above, 
paler beneath, sharply acuminate, base slenderly attenuate; 
midvein beneath quite prominent, the 10 to 12 ascending 
lateral nerves faint; stipule connate, narrow and corky, mar- 
