3. Psychotria rubiginosa Elnier, ii. sp. in herb. 
A slirub 2 to 5 m. high, the branchlets rather stout, densely dark l)rown pubes- 
cent. Leaves oblong lanceolate to oblong or elliptical oblanceolate, 20 to 30 cm. 
long, 5 to 9 cm. wide, subeoriaceous, reddish brown when dry, glabrous and shin- 
ing above, rather densely uniformly papillose pubescent beneath, the apex short, 
sharp, usually abruptly acuminate, gradually narrowed below to tlie acute base, 
the margins recurved; nerves 14 to 17 on each side of the midril), prominent 
beneath, parallel, slightly curved upu'ards, anastomosing, the reticulations very 
lax, petioles stout, about 2 cm. long, glabrous above, densely jaubescent beneath; 
stipules ovate, about 1 cm. long, coriaceous, pubescent, the apex usually with 
two short slender teeth. Inflorescence terminal, about 15 cm. long, the peduncle 
0 to 9 cm. long, the panicle ovate in outline 7 to 8 cm. wide, the branches spread- 
ing, densely rufous pubescent, the brajiclies subtended bj'’ short persistent bracts. 
Flowers white, fragrant, sessile in clusters of threes at the tips of the branchlets, 
each subtended by a small bracteole. C'aly.x glabrous or very slightly pubescent, 
about 2 mm. long, its rim with 5 shallow teeth. Corolla 2 to 3 mm. long, glab- 
rous on the outside, cleft into 5 oblong obtuse segments. Stamens 5, the filaments 
glabrous, 1 nun. long; anthers about 1 mm. long. Style not exceeding the corolla, 
the stigma bifid. Fruit 2-celled, each cell 1-seeded, obovoid, nearly 1 cm. long, 
orange red when mature, glabrous, shining, black and somewhat wrinkled when 
dry; seeds flat on the ventral, convex on the dorsal surface, glabrous, not ridged. 
(2778 Meyer) February; (243 Whitford) May; (0718 Elmer) November. On 
ridges and in ravines, forests 600 to 900 m. 
4. P. tacpo (Blanco) Rolfe, Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 312. 
(2319 jl/ci/er) January; ( 1951, 2360 Borden) October, January; (6008 Leihery) 
July. In thickets below 50 m. Endemic. 
5. P. manillensis Barth in DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 522. (?) . 
(1480 Ahern’s collector) July; (1771 Borden) August; (6758 Elmer) No- 
vember; (479, 510 Whitford) July; (5008 Leiherg) July. In forests 100 to 
400 m. Endemic. . 
Bartlings description is too short to warrant absolute identification, the speci- 
mens here referred to his species strongly resembling Psychotria tacpo, differing 
however in the fewer nerved leaves and slightly fimbriate-ciliate margins of the 
bracteoles and calyx teetli. These specimens were identified by Mr. Elmer as 
Psychotria. philippinensis C. et S., but that species has axillary, not terminal, 
peduncles. 
6. P. sarmentosa Blume; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 3 (1880) l(i5. 
(3253, 3887 Merrill) October, August; (135, 253 Whitford) (May. In forests 
600 to 800 m. British India and Malaya. 
21. GEOPHILA D. Don. 
1. G. herbacea (Linn.) K. Sch. G. reniformis Don.; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 
3 (1880) 178. 
(Whitford) . On I'ocks in river canon. Widely distributed in tlie Tropics. 
22. LASIANTHUS Blume. 
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1. Lasianthus bordenii Elmer, n. sp. in herb. 
A shrub about 2 m. high, the branches rather densely pubescent with long, 
spreading, fulvous hairs. Leaves oblong-ovate, distichous, 2 to 2.5 cm. ajiart, 
4 to 0 cm. long, 1 to 3 cm. wdde, membranous, the apex shoit sharp acuminate, 
the base inequilateral, rather abruptly subtruncate-rounded, often more or less 
cordate, glabro\is and shining above, paler and shining beneath, the nerves and 
midrib densely pubescent with long fulvous hairs, the reticulations with few 
