January 11, 1911) New anp NorEWORTHY RUBIACEAE 1023 
Psychotria macgregorii Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci, V; 
389, 1910. 
Based upon Merrill 8495 and collected by him on mount 
Pulog, province of Benguet, May, 1909. There are several 
sheets in the herbarium, all from the same mountain. 
Psychotria ovalis Elm. n. sp. 
Epiphytic or rather scandent; branches freely rebranched, 
forming a more or less interlaced mass, terete, the older ones 15 
mm. thick; twigs softly pubescent with dark fuliginously color- 
ed hairs. Leaves opposite, widely scattering along the branchlets, 
shining dark green above, paler beneath, drying dark brown, 
pubescent beneath, the upper surface only sparsely strigose but 
eventually becoming glabrous, oval, 7 cm. long, 4 cm. wide 
across the middle, entire, base rounded, apex coming to a 
short abruptly acute point; petioles 5 mm. long or the 
larger leaves with a petiole twice as long, densely covered 
with similarly colored hairs; nerves depressed upon the upper 
surface, prominent beneath, slightly ascending, subparallel, 
arched and united below the margin, reticulations obscure, 
7 to 9 pairs, all densely hairy beneath; stipule rather broad, 
obtusely rounded, deciduous, pubescent on the back toward 
. the base, otherwise glabrous, brown. Inflorescence terminal, 
usually upon 3 peduneles; peduncles dark fuliginously hairy, 
about 4 cm. long, branched from the middle; branches 
divaricately branched, 5 cm. long, all the branchlets sub- 
tended by 1.5 mm. long sharply pointed bracts; buds clus- 
tered upon short stalks; calyx short, subglabrous, obtusely 
4-toothed; petals also short, 4, nearly free, valvate; stamens 
4, upon very short filaments, the anthers broadly oval; pedicels 
of the fruits 1 to 3 mm. long, yellowish green in the dry state, 
elongate, ellipsoid, 4 mm. long, 2.5 mm. thick across the middle, 
2-celled, bearing the blackish brown sparsely apiculate calyx rim; 
pyrenes 3.5 mm. long, at least 2 mm, across the middle, 
plane on the ventral side, highly convex on the dorsal side 
and with 4 obscure longitudinal more or less granular ridges 
especially toward the base. 
Type specimen 10567, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. 
Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
