1894 Leaflets of Fhilippine Botany [Vol, V, Art. 94 



Type specimen number 13703, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agasan, Mindanao, Sept- 

 ember, 1912. 



Collected in moist more or less stony ground in the 

 dense humid forests about lake Donao at 5000 feet altitude 

 or above it. Common in the cold moss laden forest only! 

 "Macagoiig" in Manobo. 



Psychotria velutina Elm. n, ap. 



A strict or suberect shrub; stem 1.5 cm. thick, 1 to 2 

 m. high, only sparingly branched; twigs suberect, heavy, 

 green, terete. Leaves horizontal or descending, thickly co- 

 riaceous or subchartaceous, flat, only the abruptly acute tips 

 recurved, toward the base broadly cuneate or rounded, 

 opposite, generally with only 1 or 2 pairs on each twig, 

 obovate or obovately oblong, much paler green beneath, 

 curing greenish gray, the . .itire margins slightly curved upon 

 the nether more or less soft velutinous side, glabrous and 

 rugose above, the average lamina 2 dm. long by 1 dm. wide 

 across the widest portion; midrib bold beneath, green but 

 drying yellowish, velutinous beneath, glabrous and slightly 

 ridged along the upper side; lateral pairs pinnate, 12 to 15 

 on each side, ascending, tips plainly united, similar to the 

 midrib, cross bars fine and equally evident from both sides; 

 petiole 3 to 5 cm. long, compressed or aubterete, occasionally 

 the blade minutely decurrent along its sides, velutinous when 

 young, glabrate when old; stipule interaxillary, 1 cm. long, 

 brown and velutinous on the exterior, apex blunt, caducous, 

 rather broad and forming a sort of a sheath. Inflorescence 

 terminal, 3 cm. long, twice as long in the fruiting state; 

 central peduncle 5 cm. long when in fruit, the two or few 

 lateral short branched ones much thinner and only one half 

 as long, all subtended at the base by deciduous stipular 

 bracts, -bearing subcapitate clusters of flowers or fruits at the 

 distal ends, similarly velutinous in both stages; calyx glab- 

 rous, short turbinate, 2.5 mm. long, nearly as broad across 

 the truncate obscurely apiculate apex; corolla segments whitish, 

 5, united toward the base, 5 mm. long, the lobes oblong 

 and reflexed, glabrous except the dingy white hairs in the 



