NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 
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Mussaenda villosa Wall. Cat. (1832) no. 6254; Hook. f. PI. Brit. Ind. 3 
(1880) 91; King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 72 2 (1903) 184. 
What is apparently this species has been collected at Camp Keithley, Lake 
Lanao, Mindanao, by Mrs. Clemens, no. 562, and two specimens without number. 
The material agrees with Wallich’s species as interpreted by Sir George King 1. c., 
except that the pubescence is pale rather than rusty. It is the only seandent 
species at present known from the Philippines; widely distributed in the Malay 
Peninsula. 
OLDENLANDIA Linn. 
Oldenlandia pterita (Bl.) Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 2 (1857) 193. 
Hedyotis pterita Bl. Bijdr. (1826) 972. 
Gonotheca blumei DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 429. 
Oldenlandia alata Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 3 (1880) 70; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 
107, non Koenig ex Roxb. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Bur. Sci. 7824 Ramos, April, 1909. Negros, 
Cabancalan, Merrill 6430, March, 1910. Palawan, Puerto Princesa, Bur. Sci. 
213 Bermejos, December, 1905. Mindanao, District of Davao, DeVore & Hoover 
124, April, 1903, Copeland 596, March, 1904: District, of Zamboanga, Hallier 
s. n., February, 1904. 
Previously credited to the Philippines by Hooker f., and by F.-Villar. What 
is apparently the oldest valid specific name is adopted, for according to Hooker 
f., the species originally published by Roxburgh, ascribed to Koenig, is a synonym 
of Oldenlandia paniculata Linn. 
Widely distributed, India to . China, and Malaya. 
PRISMATOMERIS Thwaites. 
Prismatomeris tetrandra (Roxb.) K. Sch. in Engl. & Prantl. Nat. Pflanzen- 
fam. 4 4 (1891) 138. 
Coffea tetrandra Roxb. FI. Ind. 1 (1832) 538. 
Prismatomeris albidiflora Thwaites in Hook. Kew Journ. 7 (1855) 268, t. 7 ; 
Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 3 (1880) 159; Trimen FI. Ceyl. 2 (1894) 355: King in 
Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 73 2 (1904) 90; Valeton in Bull. Inst. Bot. Buitenzorg 8 
(1901) 5. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Bur. Sci. 7 365 Ramos, For. Bur. 13409 Bernardo, 
For. Bur. 16592, 17166, 17260 Curran, For. Bur. 14721, 14 77/7 Darling, For. Bur. 
18452 Alvarez, February, March, 1909, in forests at from 30 to 200 m altitude. 
Some of the specimens cited above differ from the species as described in 
having somewhat larger flowers and larger leaves, while others are almost an 
exact match for a specimen of Thwaites’ Ceylon plants no. 728 in our herbarium. 
All the Luzon material has 5-merous flowers and is much closer to the Ceylon 
plant than to several sheets in our herbarium from Perak, Penang, Singapore, and 
Java. 
No representative of the genus has previously been reported from the Philip- 
pines ; Ceylon, Burma, Khasia Mountains, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
PSYCHOTRI A Linn. 
Psychotria phanerophlebia sp. nov. 
Frutex erectus, ramulis, inflorescentiis, subtus foliis, plus minus dense 
castaneo- vel subrabiginoso-pubescentibus ; foliis coriaceis, late oblongo- 
oblanceolatis, usque ad 29 cm longis, nervis utrinque circiter 22, pro- 
minentibus; cymis dense congestis, pedunculatis. 
