January 11, 1911] New AND NOTEWORTHY RUBIACEAE 1029 
5 mm. wide above the middle, the dorsal surface with 4 prom- 
inent rugose ridges besides the lateral plates. 
Type specimen 12355, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes 
(Mt. Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, 
April, 1910. 
A low rather small tree climber along the trail to Espafia, 
on the ridge at 2000 feet. 
P. kunstleri K. et G., but stem and branches always terete 
even in the dry state, stipule larger and differently shaped. 
There are also some differences in the leaves and inflorescence. 
The flowers of King et Gamble’s species are not known. 
Psychotria lianoides Elm. n. sp. 
A powerful climber; stem 3 to 7 cm. thick, terete, 
ultimately divided into long main branches; branchlets spread- 
ing, the free ends hanging, the green tips ascendingly curved; 
wood soft, whitish, odorless and tasteless or with an indistinct 
sweet taste, porous, flexible; bark one third the radius in 
thickness, smooth, very dull brown or grayish mottled on 
the branches, green beneath the epidermis, the balance pinkish 
white. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, scattered along the 2 year 
old branchlets, horizontal, the acute. apex recurved, shining 
dark green above and curvingly folded, beneath duller and 
Somewhat paler green, ovately oblong, 1 dm. long including 
the stalks, 5 cm. wide below the middle, the entire mar- 
gins involute in the dry state, base broadly or truncately 
rounded, glabrous except the midvein beneath; petiole 1 cm. 
long, pubescent when young, ultimately glabrous; lateral 
nerves about 9 on each side of the prominent dirty brown 
midvein which wears glabrous with age, divaricate, quite 
conspicuous beneath, faintly united beneath the margin, the 
coarse reticulations quite in evidence; stipule thick, brown, 
caducous 7.5 mm. long, broad at apex. Inflorescence ter- 
minal, cymosely pedunculate, usually with 3 main pedun- 
cles, ascending, short ovate in outline, 2 dm. broad, nearly 
as long; stalks branched from the middle, whitish subtended 
by short yet sharply pointed bracts, subglabrous; calyx 
short stipitate, green, the narrow rim nearly 2 mm. wide, 
truncate or minutely denticulate, yellowish pulverulent as 
