1028 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 
1910. 
A slender tree climber in very humid woods of a fertile 
alluvial flat olong the Patoo river at 750 feet. Only once 
seen. The Visayan on Sibuyan call it ''Lipai." 
Psychotria sibuyanensis Elm. n. sp. 
A scandent shrub; stem terete, the size of an ordinary 
lead-pencil, flexible; branches green, likewise flexible, mi- 
nutely whitish spotted, half drooping and interlaced, quite 
slender; wood greenish, with a large pith, soft, odorless and 
tasteless; bark smooth, greenish gray. Leaves horizontal, cori- 
aceous, easily breaking, shining and very deep green on the 
upper flat surface, glabrous, the acute to acuminate apex 
recurved, much paler green beneath, slenderly attenuate at 
the base, narrowly elliptic to oblong or oblanceolate, op- 
posite, scattered along all the twigs, the entire margins 
subinvolute in the dry state, drying green, 10 cm. long, 
2.5 em. wide; side nerves 7 to 11, similarly faint on both 
sides, divaricate, archingly united a few mm. below the 
margin, reticulations none; stipule caducous, brown, dry, 4 
mm. deep or less, with a blunt point; petiole glabrous, 1 
to2 cm. long. Inflorescence suberect, corymbosely panieulate, 
rather dense and 3 cm. wide in the flowering state, upon 
a 8 to 5 em. long peduncle, greenish gray puberulent, sub- 
tending bracts sharply acuminate, 1 to 2 mm. long; calyx 
upon short stalks, truncate or obscurely 5-denticulate, 2.5 
mm. across the top, subtended by nearly obsolete bracteoles; 
corolla 4 mm. long, 2.5 mm. thick, glabrous except the 
exceedingly dense woolly throat; segments 2 mm. long, trian- 
gularly oblong, 5; stamens inserted upon the throat, as many 
as there are corolla segments and alternating with them, 
filament glabrous, slender, 1 mm. long; anther basifixed, 
truncately oblong, a trifle shorter than the filaments; style 0.75 
mm. long, bearing an equally long clavate stigma which soon 
divides into 2 thick flattened lobes; fruits dark green, 7.5 mm. 
long, ellipsoid, 6 mm. thick above the middle, with the calyx 
rim persistent, in the dry state strongly ridged; pyrene 
flat and shortly obovate from the ventral side, 6 mm. long, 
