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gin densely fringed with fine ferruginous colored hairs; bud 
scales glabrous, triangularly ovate, terminating into a slender 
acuminate apex. Infrutescence a corymbose panicle, terminal, 
much exceeded by the leaves, 3 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. broad; 
primary peduncles 3, glabrous, subtended by the uppermost 
pair of leaves, the 2 lateral ones thinner and a trifle longer; 
branchlets usually 2 or 3 in the same whorl, subtended by 
minute glabrous bracts; drupes usually in pairs, sessile, smooth, 
lemon color when mature, obovoid or subellipsoidal, 1 em. 
long, 6 mm. in width, often bearing the persistent basal por- 
tion of the calyx; stones 2, flat, narrowly elliptic in outline 
on the ventral surface or more tapering toward the base, 
sharply 5-ridged and convex on the dorsal side, plane on 
the ventral, 7 mm. long, 5 mm. wide; calyx cup shaped, 
thick and leathery except toward the irregular sinuate or 
obscurely toothed rim, glabrous on the exterior and on the 
upper half of the interior; corolla whitish, thick, exceeding 
the calyx by 2 cm., valvate, inserted upon. the middle of 
the calyx; the 4 yellowish segments about 3 mm. long, 1 
mm. wide, the apex terminated by an inwardly curved small 
abrupt point, glabrous except near the base on the inner 
surface; stamens 5, included, alternating with the corolla 
segments; anthers 1 mm. long, oblong; filaments less than 1 mm. 
long, attached near the base of the corolla; ovary 2-celled, with 
a large circular obcurely lobed disk; style 2 mm. long, com- 
pressed, bilobed at the apex, glabrous, erect; ovules solitary 
in each cell, attached near the base. 
Type specimen 7942, A. D. E. Elmer, Mount Banahao, 
Province of Tayabas, Luzon, April, 1906. This subalpine 
undershrub is rather common in the damp region from 1500 
to 2000 meters. 
Psychotria paloense n. sp. A lax shrub, 2 m. high or 
less; bark yellowish gray, that on the young shoots short 
ferruginous pubescent; wood closely grained. Leaves opposite, 
chiefly toward the ends of the twigs, from 1 to 4 cm. 
apart, lanceolate to oblanceolate, unequal in size, the larger 
ones 4 em. wide, 12 cm. long including the stout 5 mm. 
long pubescent petiole, apex acute, base cuneate, sub- 
membranous, glabrous on the upper surface, short dark brown 
