JANUARY ll, 1911] New AND Norewortay RUBIACEAE 1027 
Type specimen 12250, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. 
Inhabiting stony reddish soil of wooded banks along 
the Agdamagan creek at 750 feet. Observed along all the 
water courses. 
Its affinity is close to P. banahaensis Elm., but leaves 
larger and widest above the middle, base distinctly cuneate, 
apex more abruptly acute, nerves beneath less prominent, 
more numerous and staighter. 
Psychotria longipedunculata Elm. n. sp. 
A scandent shrub; stem flexible, 2 cm. thick, terete; 
branches at the top, slender, lax, the ultimate ones green 
and ascendingly curved, forming tangled masses, the free 
slender branchlets subpendulous. Leaves coriaceous, recurved 
especially toward the short acute tip, shining deep green on 
the upper shallowly folded side, much paler beneath, glabrous, 
drying brown, oblong to subelliptic, entire margins suhinvolute 
in the dry state, 13 cm. long, nearly one half as wide 
across the middle, base abruptly cuneate to obtuse, opposite, 
scattering along the branchlets; nerves 7 to 9 on each side 
of the conspicuous midvein, ascendingly arched toward their 
tips, dark brown; petiole similar in color, smooth, 4 cm. 
long or less; stipule caducous, 5 mm. long, brown, obtusely 
rounded at the apex. Pedurcle mostly solitary, 1 dm. long 
at least, smooth, ascending, quite rigid; branches all glabrous, 
forming a corymbose panicle, 7.5 cm. high, wideracrossthe base, 
subtended by apiculate bracts; pedicellate calyx turbinate, 
3 to 4 mm. long, truncate or minutely 5-apiculate, glabrous; 
corolla tube 6 mm. long, relatively thick, smooth except the 
dense hairs in the region of the throat, yellowish green; segments 
5, triangularly oblong, 3.5 mm. long, gradually recurved; 
stamens of the same number, alternating with the segments 
and inserted upon the throat; filaments glabrous, 2 mm. 
long, brown; anthers 1.5 mm. long, oblong, dorsifixed; style 
slender, as long as the corolla, terminated by 2 stigmatic 
arms. 
Type specimen 12532, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
