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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1920 
catis, 5 ad 7 mm longis; pyrenis plano-convexis, dorso late 
3-carinato, albumine ruminato. 
A shrub or small tree, entirely glabrous. Branches rugose, 
pale-brownish, the branchlets usually smooth, brown. Leaves 
oblong to oblong-ovate, 20 to 25 cm long, 7 to 10 cm wide, 
subolivaceous, of about the same color and shining on both sur- 
faces when dry, narrowed upward to the acute apex and below 
to the acute to somewhat decurrent-acuminate base; primary 
lateral nerves 15 to 20 on each side of the midrib, conspicuous 
on both surfaces as are the reticulations, somewhat curved, anas- 
tomosing; petioles 4 to 6 cm long. Panicles pyramidal, with 
two primary branches from the base, the infructescences 8 to 
12 cm long, the lower branches 6 to 7 cm long. Fruits numerous, 
reddish-yellow when fresh, brown to blackish-brown when dry, 
obovoid, somewhat rugose, shallowly sulcate, 5 to 7 mm long, 
their pedicels 2 to 3 mm in length. Pyrenes plano-convex, the 
back with three broad, not very conspicuous ridges or keels. 
Albumen ruminate. 
Catanduanes, Santo Domingo River and Mount Mariguidon, 
Bur. Sci. 30J+18 (type), 30567, 30U16 Ramos, November and 
December, 1917, on forested slopes. 
This species, well characterized by its relatively large, long- 
petioled, thick leaves, is probably as closely allied to Psychotria 
plumeriae folia Elm. as any other species. 
PSYCHOTRIA LUCIDA sp. nov. § Grumilea. 
Frutex vel arbor parva, glaberrima ; foliis chartaceis, in 
siccitate rigidis, fragilis, olivaceis, utrinque concoloribus, nitidis, 
oblongo-lanceolatis ad oblongis, usque ad 17 cm longis, utrinque 
subaequaliter angustatis et acuminatis, nervis utrinque cir- 
citer 11, perspicuis, curvatis, anastomosantibus, reticulis laxis- 
simis, obscuris; paniculis longe pedunculatis, usque ad 14 cm 
longis, ramis patulis, inferioribus usque ad 4 cm longis; fruc- 
tibus subellipsoideis, in siccitate nigris, nitidis, rugosis, 7 ad 8 
mm longis; pyrenis plano-convexis, albumine valde ruminato. 
A shrub or small tree, entirely glabrous, the branches brownish 
or grayish, the branchlets brown, smooth. Leaves chartaceous, 
rigid and brittle when dry, oblong-lanceolate to oblong or even 
oblong-elliptic, 12 to 17 cm, long, 3 to 6 cm wide, subequally 
narrowed to the acuminate apex and base, olivaceous, of the 
same color and shining on both surfaces when dry; lateral 
nerves about 11 on each side of the midrib, prominent, curved, 
anastomosing, the reticulations very lax, obscure; petioles 1.5 
