1024 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
Upon trees in dense woods along a ridge south of mount 
Calelan at 4250 feet. 
One of several closely related Philippine species, and can 
be distinguished from P. ovoidea Wall. by the very different 
fruits upon a differently branched infrutescence. 
Psychotria gitingensis Elm. n. sp. 
Shrub; stem 3 to 7 cm. thick, 3 m. high; branches 
usually arising above the middle, few but widely spreading, 
twigs suberect; wood slightly bitter, odorless, greenish white, soft 
and easily breaking; bark very smooth, brown. Leaves usually 
crowded toward the ends of the branchlets, opposite, thickly 
coriaceous, deep green above, much lighter beneath, nearly 
flat and with apex recurved, entire margins subinvolute in 
the dry state, drying brown, usually somewhat obovate or 
oblongish, apex abruptly short acute, base cuneate, glabrous, 
blades 12 em. long, 4 cm. wide above the middle; nerves 
prominent beneath, 9 to 1l pairs, divaricate, gradually arch- 
ed and submarginally united, brown, reticulations obscure; 
petioles glabrous, dark brown, 1 cm. long; stipule a 5 mm. 
wide, brown and rather thick rim, leaving a yellowish scar 
after falling. Peduncle erect, dark green, glabrous, usually 
solitary, 5 cm. long; branches divaricate, forming an ovately 
outlined rather dense infrutescence, usually verticelled, articu- 
late, subtended by small apiculate bracts; calyx turning 
black, turbinate, subtended by a pair of bracteoles, also gla- 
brous, 2 mm. long, minutely 5-apiculate; other parts of flow- 
ers not seen; fruits lighter green, short ellipsoid, more ta- 
pering toward the base in the dry state, nearly 1 cm. long, 
exocarp thick and drying black, 2-celled; pyrene elliptic on 
the plane surface, 7.5 mm. long, 5 mm. wide across the 
middle; its dorsal side high, 1 or obscurely 2-ridged, flat- 
tened toward the base. 
Type specimen 12431, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. Gi- 
ting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
An undershrub in moist stony soil of a forested ridge 
at 2750 feet. 
Similar to P. subalpina Elm., but pyrenes very little ridg- 
ed or nearly smooth; leaves larger, with the brown prominent 
lateral nerves plainly united. The stipules are also different. 
