1026 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
corolla twice as long; fruits in ours very little ridged, lat- 
eral ridges inconspicuous. In the same manner the infru- 
tescence differs from P. subalpina Elm. which has ridged pyrenes. 
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Psychotria plumeriaefolia Elm. n. sp. 
Suberect shrub; stem 4 to 7 cm. thick, 3 to 4 m. high, 
crooked; branches arising from below the middle, sparsely 
rebranched, the greenish twigs suberect; wood sappy white, 
rather soft, odorless, with a faint bitter taste; bark very 
smooth, dull brown or more or less mottled with greenish 
gray. Leaves heavy, leathery, horizontal, flat, with short 
acute tips recurved, very deep green above, beneath much 
paler green or even subglaucescent, turning grayish brown 
while drying, with graceful entire margins, cuneate at the 
base, elliptic or obovately elliptic, the average blades 2 dm. 
long, 1 dm. wide across the middle or a trifle above this, 
occasionally very small lanceolate ones are on the same 
twigs, glabrous; petiole 2 to 4 cm. long, glabrous, dirty 
brown; stipule glabrous, triangularly acuminate, 1 cm. long, 
brown, caducous; nerves 14 to 17 pinnate pairs, oblique, 
parallel, curved and reticulately united at their ends, otherwise 
the reticulations are barely visible, very conspicuous beneath, 
reddish brown. Infrutescence less than one half as long as 
the foliage, usually upon 3 peduncles, 1 dm. long, entirely 
glabrous, deep green; flowers more or less clustered; bracts 
of the pedicels and flowers obsolete; calyx short stalked, 
glabrous, truncate, short, 2 mm. wide at the rim; corolla 
3 mm. long, glabrous except the throat, very short tu- 
bular, the 5 oblong segments fleshy and with incurved 
tips; stamens also 5, inserted upon the throat; glabrous 
filaments 0.33 mm. long; anthers 1 mm. long, broadly 
oblong, attached along the front side of the very much en- 
larged connection; disk of the rounded ovary of the same 
peculiar whitish color as the connection; style similar in 
color, 2 mm. long, barely lobed at the apex, the stigmatic 
sides yellowish puberulent; drupes subglobose, 7.5 mm. long; 
pyrenes obovate from the concave ventral side, 6.5 mm. 
long, nearly as wide above the middle, with 3 obscure ridges, 
the middle ridge rather prominent and broad. 
