vo LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I. ArT:: 16 
nerves pinnate, 9 to 13 pairs, eurvingly ascending, copspicuous 
beneath, their ends arched and connected, reticulations obseure; 
petiolea bout 1 em. in length, pilose or when old subglabrous; 
stipule caducous, brown, 5 mm. long, finely pointed. sparsely 
hairy. Young inflorescence surrounded by broad bracts 
which soon fall; the inflorescence when in anthesis occasion- 
ally. subtended by persistent foliaceous bracts, terminal, 
sessile, capitate, 1 em. in diameter; flowers whitish, somewhat 
fleshy, sessile, about 10-clustered; calyx 3 mm. long, glabrous, 
the basal 1.5 mm. pedicellate, 2 mm. wide across the top, 
terminated into 5 setaceously pointed teeth about 1 mm. in 
length; corolla tube 3 mm. long, the 5 ultimately reflexed 
lobes 2 mm. long by 1 mm. wide, pubescent only at the 
throat; stamens of an. equal number; filaments 0.5 mm. long, 
gabrous, inserted upon the throat and alternating with the 
segments; anthers basifixed, oblong, 0.75 mm. long; style 3 
to 4 mm. in length, glabrous, gradually th.ckened and sub- 
compressed toward the apex, the tip cleft into 2 unequal 
arms; ovary glabrous; drupes subglobose or obovoid, 5 mm. 
thiek, smooth, turning purplish,. sessile or short pedicellate; 
pyrenes cireular, plano-convex. the dorsal side smooth, attached 
near the base on the ventral side. 
` Type specimen 7581, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province of 
Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. An undershrub of rather dry 
woods on Mount Banahao at 750 meters. This species has 
strong affinities to P. longipedicellata Elm. and P. | bataanensis 
Elm. but is sufficiently distinct from either. 
Psychotria ramosissima n. sp.—A climbing and profusely 
sprawling shrub; branches 1 em. thick, slender, the leaf bearing 
portion. greenish and usually drooping when free from its 
support; stems about 5 em. thick, soft and flexible, covered 
with brown lenticelled bark. Leaves conduplicate on the upper 
surface, slightly recurved towards the apex, leathery, lucid 
green above, paler beneath, glabrous except the sparsely pilose 
nerves underneath, the medium sized blades 14 cm. long and 
5 em. wide at or below the middle, oblong, equally tapering 
at both ends, apex acute, base obtuse, edges entire; nerves 
more prominent beneath, oblique, parallel, 7 to 9 pairs, the 
the cross -bars few and very faint; petiole glabrous, 2 cm. long, 
