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puboscfiit outside, the tube short, 2 mm. long, the lobes 5, imbricate, narrowly 



oblong, about 8 mm. long, 2 mm. wide. Stamens 5, inserted on the throat of the 



corolla; filaments short, flattened, glabrous; anthers 8 mm. long, linear, sagitate 



at the base. Ovary 2-celled, each cell 1-ovuled; style minutely pubescent below. 



(2764 Meyer-) February, 1905. In forests at TOO ni. Ixora meyeri Elmer in 



herb. 



20. PSYCHOTRIA Linn. 



1. Psychotria bataanensis Elmer, n. sp. in herb. 



A shrub 1 to 2 m. higli, the branches gray or brown, glabrous, the younger 

 [)iuts ratlier densely dark brown pubescent. Leaves oblong-obovate, opposite the 

 apex rounded, strongly narrowed below to the narrowly subtnuicate somewliat 

 cordate or auriculate base, 7 to 13 cm. long, 2.5 to C) em. wide, brownish when 

 dry, glabrous and somewhat shining above, pubescent or puberulent on the nerves 

 beneath, subcoriaceous; nerves very prominent beneatli, about 20 on each side 

 of tlie midrib, parallel, sliglitly curved upwards, anastomosing near the margin, 

 tlie reticulations not prominent; petioles 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, pubescent; stipules 

 subglabrous, rigid, acute, deciduous, about 8 nun. long. Inflorescence terminal, 

 dense, about 1 cm. long in anthesis, 2 to 3 cm. long in infrutescence, the branches 

 densely brown pubescent. Flowers white. Calyx pubescent, turbinate, 3 mm. 

 long, somewhat obscurely 4-toothed. Corolla glabrous except the pilose throat, 

 subcampanulate, the segments 4, obtuse, thick. Stamens 4; filaments about 1 mm. 

 long, glabrous; anthers 1 mm. long, bi'oad; style short, glabrous; fruit red, 

 2-celled obovoid, about 6 nun. long, 4 mm. in diameter, obscurelj- ridged, somewhat 

 pubescent, clustered at the ends of the 1 to 1.5 cm. long peduncles; pyrenes one 

 in each cell, the base pointed, the apex rounded, the ventral surface flat, the 

 dorsal surface 3 to 5 ridged. 



(3180, 3765 Merrill) October, January; (214 Whit ford) May; (2078 Borden) 

 November; [l^O'i Ahem' s collector) July; (0980 J5Zj»cr) November. On exposed 

 ridges in llie mossy forest 700 to 1,100 m. 



2. Psychotria diffusa Merrill, sp. nov. 



Subscandent. branches dark brown, glabrous, striate, shining, the younger 

 parts with few sciittered more oi' less crisped hairs. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 glabrous, or the younger ones witli few crisped hairs on the midrib beneath, 4 to 

 !) cm. long, 1 to 3.5 cm. wide, long acuminate, the base acute, submembranous, 

 somewhat shining; nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, somewhat prom- 

 inent beneath, the reticulations lax; petioles slender, alnrnt 5 mm. long; stipules 

 broad, membranous, deciduous, 5 to 8 mm. long. Inllorescence terminal, lax. 

 spreading, 15 cm. long or often very much shorter, the axis and branches with 

 few crisped liaiis, becoming glabrous or nearly so, the latter slender, spreading 

 or ascending, subtended by small ovate bracts. Flowers small, greenish, fragrant. 

 Sessile or short pediceled in clusters of threes at the ends of the ultimate branch- 

 lets, subtended by small bractcoles. Calyx glabrous, 2 mm. long, with 5 small 

 teeth, (.'orolla about 1.3 nun. long, glabrous outside, tubular, cleft to about the 

 middle into 5 acute lobes. Stamens 5, the anthers less than 0.5 mm. long. 

 (Jvary 2-celled, each cell 1-ovuled; style glabrous about 1 nun. long, slightly 

 thickened above, the stigma slightly bilobed. Fruit narrowly obovoid, white 

 when matuic. glaliroiis, 3 to 4 iiini. bniL;. 2-ccllcil. cmcIi cell 1 seeded, or by abor- 

 tion 1-celled aiul 1-seeded; seed llatteiied mi the xciitral surface, convex on the 

 dorsal .surface, slightly rugose, not oi- \cry oiisciii'ely 2 to .'i ridged. 



(152, 1187, 1208 Whilford) .May, March; (()811 FJimr) November. Also 

 Xo. 0258 Elmer, Sablan, Province of Benguet, Luzon. .\])ril. I!)()4. and No. !)30 

 Whilford, Mount Banahao, Provinces of Tnyabas, Luzon, October, li)04. On exposed 

 ridges in the mos.sy forest above 1.100 m. Identified l)y .Mr. i^lmer in lierit. as 

 I'si/rholi id cihisl roidcf! Criseli.. a West Indian species. 



