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long, pale and shining when dry, smooth, globose-ovoid to some- 
what obovoid, rounded, the pericarp crustaceous. Pyrenes 
plano-convex, smooth, not at all ridged, the young seeds ob- 
scurely keeled on the ventral surface, the albumen uniform. 
Balabac, Bur. Sci. 21605 Escritor (type), August, 1913. Palawan, 
Bonabona, Bur. Sci. 2151,1 Escritor, August, 1913. 
This species in many characters closely approaches Psychotria membra- 
nifolia Barth, but is entirely different in the characters of its infructescence 
and fruits. Its true alliance seems to be with Psychotria leptothyrsa Miq. 
( Coelospermum ahernianum Elm.), from which it is readily distinguished 
by its very short peduncles. 
PHILIPPINE SPECIES OF PSYCHOTRIA OR GRUMILEA OF WHICH THE 
FRUITS ARE UNKNOWN 
PSYCHOTRIA GITINGENSIS Elm. Lead. Philip. Bot. 3 (1911) 1024. 
Sibuyan, Elmer 121,31. Erect. 
PSYCHOTRIA BONTOCENSIS Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 9 (1914) Bot. 
456. 
Luzon, Vanoverbergh 2610. Erect. 
PSYCHOTRIA RAMOSISSIMA Elm. Lead. Philip. Bot. 1 (1908) 355. 
Luzon, Elmer 9178. Leyte, Wenzel 693. Scandent. 
PSYCHOTRIA RAMOSII Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 5 (1910) Bot. 244. 
Luzon, Bur. Sci. 71,99 Ramos. 
PSYCHOTRIA SIBUYANENSIS Elm. Lead. Philip. Bot. 3 (1911) 1028. 
Sibuyan, Elmer 12355. Scandent. 
PSYCHOTRIA I WAHIGENSIS Elm. Lead. Philip. Bot. 4 (1912) 1351. 
Palawan, Elmer 13052. Scandent. 
PSYCHOTRIA VANOVERBERGHII Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 9 (1914) 
Bot. 457. 
Luzon, Vanoverbergh 111,1,, 2818. Erect. 
PSYCHOTRIA REPENS Elm. Lead. Philip. Bot. 4 (1912) 1349. 
Palawan, Elmer 12991. Scandent. 
PSYCHOTRIA VOLUTA Elm. Lead. Philip. Bot. 4 (1912) 1347. 
Palawan, Elmer 13253. Scandent. 
PSYCHOTRIA RIGIDAEFOLIA (Elm.) comb. nov. 
Randia rigidaefolia Elm. Lead. Philip. Bot. 1 (1908) 352. 
The type of this species is Elmer 9118 from Lucban, Province of Taya- 
bas, Luzon, and so far as known it is represented only by this one collection. 
The species, is in all respects a Psychotria (or Grumilea) and is accord- 
ingly removed from Randia. In commenting on the species Mr. Elmer 
notes that it might be either Psychotria or Randia, but that the “more or 
less numerous ovules places it in the latter genus.” 1^ dnd the ovary to be 
2-celled, with a single ovule in each cell. It resembles Psychotria ramosis- 
