1350 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 70 
ticulate, subtended by a pair of unequal sharply acuminate and 
ciliate bracts, 5 mm. long, ferrugineusly hairy on the outside, the 
upper one half divided into 5 sharply acuminate segments which 
are rather strongly 3-nerved; corolla white or tinged with brown, 
the 5 segments strongly recurved, subcampanulate in shape, 
caducous, 5 mm. long, the segment tips obtuse, glabrous except 
the whitish hairy throat; stamens as many, alternating with the 
segments and inserted upon the throat, the filaments glabrous, 
the anther bluntly oblong; ovary short, ovoidly ellipsoid, also 
glabrous. 
Type specimen 12991, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
This distinct species was discovered in very moist humus 
covered soil of dense woods near a creek flat at 250 feet. 
Quite rare and very different from other known! Philippine 
Psychotriae by its subherbaceous character and low creeping 
habit. 
Psychotria pyramidata Elm. n. sp. 
Suffrutescent; stem erect, 1 to 2 m. high, woody toward 
the base, 1 em. thick, only occasionally branched, the branchlets 
crooked and with suberect tips, terete, glabrous. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous, ascending or horizontally spreading, glabrous, dull 
green above, much lighter or subglaucus green beneath, flat and 
only slightly recurved, curing grayish especially on the nether side, 
oppositely scattered, not numerous, oblong or oblanceolately 
oblong, the average blades 2 dm. long by 7.5 em. wide a trifle 
above the middle but frequently smaller, apex bluntly obtuse or 
acute, base subcuneate and occasionally slightly inequilateral, en- 
tire, midvein minutely pulverulent, prominently raised; lateral 
pairs divaricate, 13 to 15 on each side, strict, tips anastomosing, 
much less prominent; reticulations more numerous and evident 
_ toward the entire margins; petiole up to 2.5 em. long, ascending, 
subglabrous. Inflorescence strictly erect, terminal, solitary upon 
 anearly 5 em. long peduncle which is usually subtended by a pair 
of foliaceous bracts or small leaves, pyramidally branched above 
_ the middle; its main branches in whorls, usually descending, strict, 
1.5 em. long, glabrous, subtended by a short involucral bract, 
. dichotemously rebranched above the middle; the secondary and 
