JANUARY 22, 1912] PALAWAN RUBIACEAE 1347 
PSYCHOTRIA Linn. 
Psychotria malayana Jack. 
Field-note:—A slender erect shrub-like tree; stem 5 inches 
thick, subterete, 15 feet high or higher, branched from below 
the middle; wood soft or moderately so, dingy yellowish white, 
quite heavy, odorless, slightly sweet to taste; bark caesius, smooth, 
with a green hypodermis, the greater inner portion sappy white; 
main branches ascending, erooked, repeatedly branched at the top; 
twigs lax, suberect, the leaf bearing portion green; coriaceous 
leaves nearly horizontally spreading, lucid green on the shallowly 
folded upper surface, much paler green beneath; inflorescence 
erect and terminal, pale green except the pure white odorless 
and erect flowers. 
Represented by number 12981, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
Gathered in red stony well drained soil of a wooded ridge 
at 2000 feet. 
Psychotria manillensis Bartl. 
Field-note:—A low erect and quite rigid suffrutescent 
perennial; stem terete, 0.33 inch thick, 1.5 foot high, tough 
or rather rigid, greenish, occasionally branched from the middle; 
leaves subglaucus green, a trifle deeper or brighter green beneath, 
chiefly horizontal, coriaceous, flat or only the tips recurved; 
infrutescence arising from the uppermost leaf axils, dark green, 
erect or on the lateral branches divaricate; fruits ovoidly ellip- 
soid, very dark green, terete, longitudinally striate, the bracts 
and persistent calyx also green; the smooth elongated ripe 
fruits shining vermillion red, ridged when dry. 
Represented by number 12868, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
Quite commonly scattered in rich moist humus covered 
soil of dense woods and forests at 500 feet or at a higher altitude. 
Psychotria voluta Elm. n. sp. 
A twining climber; stem volute, terete, 5 mm. thick, branched, 
