353 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I. Amr. 16 
applies very closely to Psychotria as well as to. Randia. 
Not having mature íruits there remains some doubt as to 
its proper genus. Still, the. more or less numerous ovules 
places it with the latter genus; the scandent habit, terminal 
inflorescence and coriaceous leaves are characters of either 
genera. 
Psychotria acuminatissima n. sp.—Slender shrub, 2 m. 
high, with branches rather crooked and gnarly near the top; 
wood easily breaking; bark yellowish brown. Leaves ascend- 
ing, darker green above, nearly flat, submembranous, linear 
lanceolate to oblanceolate, very variable in size, the larger 
ones 13 em. long, and 2 cm. wide, very acuminate, base 
narrowly attenuate, glabrous; lateral nerves faint, from 9 
to 13 on each side, ascending; petiole glabrous, 3 to 10 mm. 
long; stipules brown, fimbriate, about 1 mm. wide, decidu- 
dous. Flowers not seen; infrutescence terminal, much ex- 
ceeded by the terminal leaves, 2 cm. long, at least that in 
width; peduncles 3 to 5, about 1 cm. long, glabrous, some- 
what flattened; pedicels shorter, usually 3 from each pe- 
duncle, subtended by membranous brown bracts; drupe 7 mm. 
across the top, subcompresed, obovoid, base gradually tapering, 
about 7 mm. long, smooth, only the sides with a single 
crease, 2-celled, beginning to turn yellow from the base; 
pyrene 1 in each cell, the dorsal convex side nearly orbic- 
ular, the other side flat, 4 mm. across, attached by the base, 
black. 
Type specimen 8752, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province of 
Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907,. Not common in limestone 
shrubbery below the barrio of Autop. Differs from my P. 
subalpina in its narrower and longer acuminate leaves, drupes 
not sessile and the stones not ridged. 
. Psychotria pilosella n. sp.—A 1 to 2 m. high shrub, 
its sparse -branches rigid and crooked; wood moderately 
soft, closely grained, yellowish white; bark quite thick, smooth, 
green when young, dark brown or nearly black when old. 
Leaves soft pilose with olivaceous colored’ hairs on both 
sides, flat, spreading horizontaliy and radially, oppositely 
arranged toward the ends of the twigs, obovate to oblan- 
