Srptember 12, 1913] Rubiaceae from MoUxVt Urdaneta 1893 



Collected in densely wooded depressions at 3500 feet al- 

 titude between Duros and Cawilanan peaks. "Madantawan" 

 is the vernacular Manobo name. 



Psychotria urdanetensis Elm. n. sp. 



Low and lax undershrub; stem terete, 2.5 cm. thick, 

 erect but branched from near the base, flatly topped, 1 to 

 2 m. high; wood rather soft but whitish, tough, with a brown 

 pith, covered with smooth brown bark; branches quite rigid, 

 spreading, rebranched, the suberect relatively abort twigs lat- 

 ericius pubescent. Leaves opposite, fairly numerous, horizon- 

 tal, submembranous, flat, gradual toward the recurved acu- 

 minate apex, base obtuse or obtusely rounded, much paler 

 green beneath, drying grayish green, entire, glabrous, variable 

 in size, the larger blades 6 cm. long by 1.5 cm. wide across 

 the middle or a trifle above it, the larger leaves narrowly 

 oblong or oblanceolate, smaller ones lanceolate; midrib conspic- 

 uous and reddish hairy beneath; lateral nerves 5 to 8, likewise 

 prominent and similarly hairy beneath, ascendingly curved, the 

 tips of the upper ones united, reticulations none; petiole 5 to 8 

 ram. long, densely latericius hairy especially on the younger 

 ones; bud bract elongated and slenderly acuminate or 

 oblongish, reddish brown in the dry state and crisply hairy, 

 caducous, 1.5 cm. long, fully one third as wide toward the 

 base, thin; dry stipules short, interaxillary, abruptly pointed 

 or truncate. Flowers usually in few sessile clusters at the 

 ends of the branchlets, erect, subtended by bud-like bracts; 

 calyx 3 ram. long, greenish except the dark purple 

 ritn, relatively thick, bristly hairy, truncately terminated 

 by 5 apiculations, the upper portion dark purple; corolla 

 whitish, erect, 5 mm. long; ovary pale yellow, glabrous, the 

 apical portion thickened and disk-like. Drupes dark ruber 

 red, when mature turning nearly black, sessile or subsessile 

 or distinctly stipitate, obovoid, sparsely strigose or becoming 

 glabrous, less than 1 cm. long, 6 mm. wide above the 

 raiddle, not ridged in the dry state; the 2 pyrenes 7.5 mm. 

 long, 5 mm. wide across the rounded upper part, ventral 

 side plane and with a median crease, obovoid from the side 

 view, smooth on the deeply convex outer side. 



