January ll, 1911]. New AND NorEwonTHY RUBIACEAE 1025 
Psychotria similis Elm. n. sp. 
An erect undershrub; stem 3 cm. thick, 3 m. high; 
branches mostly above the middle, lax, widely scattering, 
conspicuously nodulose, curved, the ultimate ones slender and 
suberect; wood rather soft, dirty white, odorless and taste- 
less; bark very smooth, dark or dull brown. Leaves flat, 
coriaceous, mostly ascending and crowded toward the ends 
of the twigs, shining green above, subglaucescent beneath, 
glabrous, oblanceolate, apex acute to acuminate, base slenderly 
attenuate, the entire margins slightly involute in the dry 
state, 12 cm. long, 3 em. wide above the middle, the ter. 
minal ones usually smaller; petioles glabrous, 1 cm. long; nerves 
9 to 12 on each side of the prominent brown midvein, faint, 
slightly curved and with tips united, reticulations obscure; 
stipule brown, broad, 5 mm. long, truncately obtuse, caducous. 
Inflorescence entirely glabrous, erect, pale green and drying 
brown, 1 dm. long, branched above the middle, usually with 
only 1 peduncle; secondary stalks forming a cymose panicle, 
5 cm. across, subtended by small bracts; terminal flower 
sessile, the lateral ones upon 3 to 5 mm. long whitish ped- 
icels; calyx turbinate, 2.5 mm. long, 2 mm. across at the 
truncate or scarcely 5-apiculate rim; corolla pure white, 
odorless, 8 mm. long, 2 mm. across the short basal tube, 
glabrous except the hairy throat; segments 5, oblong, obtuse, 
thick, 5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide; stamens 5, inserted upon 
the throat; filaments smooth, 0.5 mm. long; anthers 1.25 
mm. long, oblong, basifixed; style glabrous, as long as the 
corolla, terminated by 2 clavate segments which are puber- 
ulous along the upper stigmatic side; drupes pale green, 
elongated ellipsoid, obovoid in the dry state, bearing the calyx 
rim, 7.5 mm. long, 4 mm. across the middle; pyrene 6.5 
mm. long, 4 mm. wide, plano-convex, obtuse at apex, base 
pointed, with an obscure dorsal ridge. 
Type specimen 12439, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
This undershrub was collected in red compressed soil 
between rocks on a wind swept forested ridge at 3000 feet. 
Called by the natives or Visayan ‘‘Betanghol.’’ 
Not P. pinnatinervia Elm., inflorescence more laxly branched, 
