1348 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, ArT. 70 
glabrous even the young leaf bearing tips. Leaves opposite, 
usually crowded toward the ends, glabrous, spreading, unequal in | 
size, subcoriaceous, dull green when dry, entire margins involute, ' 
sublueid on the upper side, paler green beneath, rotundly 
oblong or obovately so, roundly obtuse at apex, base obtuse, the 
larger blades 7.5 em. long by 3.5 em. wide across the middle or a 
trifle above it; midvein dark brown on the nether side and prom- 
inent toward the base; main lateral nerves 5 to 7 on each side, 
obscure, ascending, slightly curved except their tips, more evi- 
dent from the upper side, retieulations very obscure beneath and 
evident on the upper side; petioles at least 5 mm. long, glabrous; 
stipule brown, rim-like. Inflorescence 3 em. long, erect, terminal, 
usually single, branched toward the top; peduncle very finely 
puberulent, subtended by minute braets and a pair of small 
leaves, 2 em. long; corymb 2 cm. across, all the branches subtend- 
ed by rather sharply pointed bracts; flowers few clustered at the 
ultimate branchlets, subsessile, subtended by small bracteoles; 
calyx glabrate, turbinate, 2.5 mm. long, 5-toothed, green; corollas 
twice as long, whitish, also glabrate except the villose throat, 
tubular below the middle, 5-segmented above this; stamens 5, i 
alternating with the segments and inserted upon the throat, 
their filaments short, anthers yellow; style equalling the corolla, 
glabrous, the 2 short stigmas pulverulent. 
Type specimen 13253, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
It belongs to the P. serpens Linn. group. 
Psychotria palawanensis Elm. n. sp. 
Erect shrub; stem 2.5 em. thick, 3 m. high, terete, crook- 
edly branched from above the middle; wood dingy white, moder- 
ately hard, odorless, slightly bitter; bark thin, smooth, brown 
on the stem, gray on the branchlets; twigs suberect, glabrous. 
Leaves leathery, drying dull green, glabrous, obovately oblong 
or oblanceolate, the normal blades 17.5 em. long by 7 em. wide 
. above the middle, quite variable in size, margins entire, apex 
. abruptly acute to obtuse, base cuneate, opposite, usually at the 
. ends of the twigs; midvein brown, conspicuous beneath, also 
.. glabrous; lateral pairs 12 to 16, straw brown, shining, ascendingly 
curved, subparallel, the tips interarching, reticulations very 
