i7 , 5 Merrill: Studies on Philippine Rubiaceae, IV 445 
when dry, 3 to 3.5 cm long. Inflorescence a terminal cyme about 
11 cm long, with two primary branches from the base, the main 
rachis and primary branches again branched at or above the 
upper one-third, the flowers rather crowded on the ultimate 
branchlets, their pedicels up to 5 mm in length. Calyx rather 
shallow, acutely toothed. Corolla, in bud, about 4.5 mm long, the 
throat villous inside. 
Leyte, Dagami, Bur. Sci. 15198 Ramos, August 9, 1912, along 
streams in forests. 
Among all the Philippine species Psychotria amplissima is 
readily distinguished by its very large, obtuse or rounded, prom- 
inently nerved, long-petioled leaves and its long stipules. 
PSYCHOTRIA CAPIZENSIS sp. nov. 
Frutex erectus, ramulis et inflorescentiis et subtus foliis 
ad costa nervisque plus minusve castaneo-pubescens ; foliis 
subcoriaceis, oblongo-ellipticis, 8 ad 12 cm longis, utrinque sub- 
aequaliter angustatis, basi acutis, apice leviter acuminatis, nervis 
utrinque circiter 20, subtus valde perspicuis; infructescentiis 
circiter 2 cm longis, fructibus paucis, obovoideis, 5 mm longis, 
haud sulcatis, albumine aequabile. 
An erect shrub, the branchlets, petioles, midrib, and nerves 
on the lower surface, and the inflorescences more or less casta- 
neous-pubescent, branches terete, glabrous. Leaves subcoria- 
ceous, oblong-elliptic, brownish when dry, 8 to 12 cm long, 3 
to 5 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the acute base and slightly 
acuminate apex, the short acumen usually blunt; lateral nerves 
about 20 on each side of the midrib, very prominent on the lower 
surface, parallel, slightly curved, arched-anastomosing near the 
margin, the reticulations rather close, distinct ; petioles 1 to 2 cm 
long, in age glabrous ; stipules deciduous. Infructescences term- 
inal, simple, about 2 cm long, densely pubescent. Fruits few, 
obovoid, yellow when fresh, black when dry, glabrous, about 
5 mm long, not at all sulcate, base acute and apex broadly 
rounded ; seeds plano-convex, the albumen not at all ruminate. 
Panay, Capiz Province, Mount Madiaas, Bur. Sci. 30657 
Ramos & Edaho, May 13, 1918, in forests, altitude not indicated. 
This species somewhat resembles the ones associated with 
Psychotria bataanensis Elm., most of which belong in the section 
Grumilea. Among these it most closely resembles Psychotria 
rizalensis Merr., from which it differs not only in it's longer 
pedicels and non-sulcate fruits, but also in its albumen not being 
at all ruminate. 
