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peduncle slender, about & mm long. Flowers unknown. Fruit 
solitary to 3 or 4, umbellate, the pedicels slender, about 5 mm 
long, the fruit orange-red, ellipsoid, 5 to 6 mm long, when dry 
obscurely sulcate. Pyrenes ovoid, rounded at one end, acute at 
the other, plano-convex, about 5 mm long, 3.5 mm wide, dorsally 
slightly keeled, the lateral ridges obscure, shallowly 5-sulcate. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Abulug River, Weber 1572, February 5, 
1912, on rocky hillsides, limestone formation, in forests, altitude not indi- 
cated. 
A species probably as closely allied to Psychotria longipedicellata 
Elmer, as to any other species, differing in many characters, especially 
in being quite glabrous, not at all pubescent. 
PSYCHOTRIA SARCOCARPA sp. nov. 
Frlitex scandens, usque ad 3 m altus, ramulis subtus foliis 
inflorescentiisque dense brunneo- vel ferrugineo-pilosis ; foliis 
ellipticis vel ovalibus, chartaceis obtusis vel rotundatis, usque ad 
4 cm longis, nervis utrinque circiter 7 ; inflorescentiis axillaribus 
terminalibusque, laxis, paucifloris, folia subaequantibus ; fruc- 
tibus ovoideis, succulentis, circiter 12 mm longis. 
A scandent shrub, climbing along the trunks of trees, 3 m 
high or less. Branches slender, densely covered with usually 
dark-brown, more or less curled or crisped, pilose hairs. Leaves 
elliptic, chartaceous, 3 to 4 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, obtuse 
or rounded at both ends, the upper surface glabrous or nearly 
so, the lower surface brown-pilose, densely so on the midrib and 
nerves ; lateral nerves 7 on each side of the midrib, distinct, some- 
what ascending, reticulations lax, not prominent ; petioles densely 
pubescent, 3 to 4 mm long. Inflorescence axillary and terminal, 
densely brown-pubescent, lax, few-flowered, usually shorter than 
the leaves, the pedicels 5 to 7 mm long. Calyx densely pubescent, 
3 to 4 mm long, 5-toothed, the teeth oblong, obtuse. Corolla 
externally pubescent, white, 5 mm long, the lobes as long as the 
tube, narrowly oblong, obtuse, about 2.5 mm long. Anthers 1 
mm long. Fruit, when fully mature, very soft and fleshy, white, 
about 12 mm long, ovoid or ellipsoid, sparingly pubescent with 
very scattered hairs, the pyrenes 8 mm long, narrowly oblong- 
elliptic, about 8 mm long, concavo-convex, dorsally longitud- 
inally 2-ridged in the median part, subequally narrowed at both 
ends, acute or somewhat acuminate. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Sax River Mountains back of Zam- 
boanga, Merrill 8077, November 27, 1911, in densely forested, damp, shaded 
ravines along small streams, altitude 650 to 1,000 m. 
Probably most closely allied to Psychotria ovalis Elmer, but with smaller, 
fewer-nerved leaves and very different fruits. 
