January 11, 1911] New AND NorEwoRTHY RUBIACEAE 1031 
nal, erect, of 3 to 5 rather thick and glabrous peduncles 
varying from 5 to 9 cm. long, subtended at the base by 
deciduous bracts; secondary branches once or twice umbella- 
tely branched, also stout, articulate, spreading, their sub- 
tending bracts very short or obsolete; pedicels thickened and 
brown, fimbriate at the distal end, usually with 1,2 or 3 
sessile flowers; calyx ovoidly globose, 7.5 mm. long, glabrous, 
dark green, with a short truncate rim; corolla 6 mm. long, 
rigid, with only a very short tube, glabrous except the pu- 
bescent throat; segments 5, triangularly acute, nearly 4 mm. 
‘long; stamens 5, inserted upon the throat; filaments glabrous, 
0.75 mm. long, alternating with the segments; anther oblong, 
nearly 2 mm. long, attached dorsally below the middle; style 
2 mm. long, separating from the top into 2 parts, bearing 2 thick 
and recurved stigmatic lobes which are puberulent along the 
upper side; young fruits obovoidly ellipsoid, smooth, nearly 
1.5 em. long, bearing the short calyx rim, 2-celled, with 
2 pyrenes. 
Type specimen 11263, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
A fine straight tree in humid forested flats at 4000 feet 
on the trail to Baclayan, the mount Apo summit station. 
The Bagobos call it ‘‘Magsangad.” 
A near relative of P. angulata Korth. of Burma from 
which ours differs mainly in having larger leaves, longer 
petioles, stipules twice as long and other characters in-the 
flowers at least. 
Psychotria mindoroensis Elm. n. sp. 
Scandent upon medium-sized trees; stem 1 cm. thick; 
the branches only one half as thick, terete, smooth, forming 
tangled masses, the free ends more or less hanging, with 
tips suberect. Leaves opposite, widely scattering along the 
branchlets, subcoriaceous, darker green above, drying reddish 
brown, entire, subelliptish to ovate, apex obtuse to acute, 
base rounded or obtuse, glabrous, 8 cm. long, one half as 
wide below the middle; petiole glabrous, 5 mm. long, 
lateral nerves 5 to 7, divaricate, faint, the obscure tips 
arched and united a few mm. below the margin, stipule 
