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pubescent on the lower; midvein conspieuous on both sides, 
the 13 lateral pairs obscure and slightly ascending with 
their tips barely united; stipule short but broad, with ciliate 
margins, densely ferruginous pubescent, deciduous, leaving 
a short dark brown fringed scar. Inflorescence terminal, 
subeorymbose, much exceeded by the leaves, upon erect 
1 to 2 em. long ferruginous pubescent peduncles; branchlets 
similarly pubescent, subtended by minute bracts; calyx cup- 
ular, 3 mm. long, the 1 mm. deep and entire rim pul- 
verulent or short pubescent, about 2 mm. in diameter; 
corolla white, turbinate, 6 mm. long, short pubescent or 
strigose on the exterior, cleft into 5 adnate and tumid obtuse 
segments, interior of the tube and inner surface of the 
segments glabrous except at the white villous throat; stamens 
5, alternating with the segments and inserted opon the 
throat; anthers subsessile, 1 mm. long; style included, glab- 
rous, terminated by 2 dilated lobes at the apex which are 
densely hairy on the ventral side; drupes solitary or usually 
in pairs, subsessile, 8 mm. in diameter, 10 mm. long, elliptic 
oblong to subglobose, glabrous, yellow but finally turning 
to a dark purple; pyrene slightly truncate at the apex, 
obtuse at the base, 5 mm. across, 7 mm. long, elliptic to 
oblong, its ventral face plane, the dorsal convex and 3 to 
5-ridged. 
Type specimen 7056, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Leyte, 
January, 1906. It was discovered in gently sloping wooded 
ravines, six miles west of Palo, and is not at all common. 
Psychotria elliptifolia n. sp. A much branched rather 
gnarly scandent shrub; branches rigid, brown and smooth; 
wood very tough. Leaves numerous along the twigs, opposite, 
1 to 1.5 em. apart, elliptic to broadly oblanceolate, 2 cm. wide, 
2 to 3 em. long including the glabrous 4 mm. long petiole, 
glabrous, equally shining green on both sides, coriaceous, 
obtuse or acute at apex, acute to cuneate at base, 5 to 7 
ascendingly nerved; stipule thin, dry, brown, glabrous, 7 mm. 
long, fugaceous, apex obtuse or abruptly truncate and ter- 
minated by a minute acumen. Inflorescence terminal, con- 
gested, ovate in outline, 2 to 3 cm. long, subtended by the 
uppermost pair of leaves and their stipules; main peduncles 
glabrous, 3 from the base but with the 2 lateral ones shorter, 
