September 12, 1913] Rubiaceae from Mount Urdaneta 1891 



titude or just above lake Donao. "Bangog" in Manobo. 

 It is neither of ray P. cuernosensis nor P. elliptira. 



Psychotria erythrotricha Elm. n. sp. 



Shrub 3 to 5 m. high; stem 1 dm. tliick or less, branched 

 from below the middle; the branches ascending and ultimately 

 crookedly rebranched; wood moderately soft, whitish, covered 

 with a smooth brown hark; twigs ascendingly curved, red- 

 dish hairy especially toward the young tips. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, ascending or horizontal, flat except the recurved acute 

 to acuminate apex, deeper green above, base cuneate, entire, 

 red hirsute on both sides especially beneath, oblong or obo- 

 vately oblong, chiefly with only 2 to 3 pairs toward the 

 ends of the branchlets, the larger blades nearly 15 cm. long 

 and 4.5 cm. wide a trifle above the middle, frequently 

 smaller especially the uppermost ones; midrib densely later- 

 icius hairy and prominent beneath, less so above; lateral 

 nerves 9 to 11 or even 13 pairs, oblique, subparallel, slightly 

 curved, tips not united or very obscurely so, reticulations 

 none; petiole varying from 5 to 15 mm. long, similarly 

 hairy, only fluted along the upper side; stipule caducous, 

 hairy on the outside, brown, rather short or longer; bud 

 bract 2 cm. long, broad, irregularly laciniate across the 

 broad apex, hairy on the outside and on the inner side to- 

 ward the base. Infruteseence terminal, erect; peduncles 1 or 

 more, subterete, 3 to 5 cm. long, usually short branched to- 

 ward the top, occasionally from below the middle or toward 

 the base, soft melleus pubescent, subtended by a series of 

 linear lanceolate 1.5 cm. long p'lhescent bracts; branchlets few, 

 divaricate, more or less angular, the upper ones subtended by very 

 linear much reduced bracts. Fruits in small terminal clusters, 

 sessile, subtended by dense brushes of deeper colored hairs 

 and brown membranous bracteoles; drupes ellipsoid, green or 

 turning reddish brown especially on the exposed sides, nearly 

 1.5 cm. long, 7.5 mm. across the middle,, bristly pubescent, 

 rugose in the dry state, similarly tapering toward both ends, 

 at the apex abruptly contracted into a 2 to 3 mm. long 

 hairy calyx tube which terminates by 5 blunt calyx teeth; 

 pyrenes 2, plaise on the inner side, the dorsal side round- 



