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MERRILL. 
PSYCHOTRIA Linn. 
Psychotria cephalophora Merrill sp nov. 
Arbuscula erecta, glabra; foliis membranaceis vel submembranaceis, 
elliptico-oblongis vel obovato-ellipticis, utrinque acuminatis, 11 ad 15 cm 
longis, nervis utrinque circiter 13; fructibus glabris, 5 mm longis, pedi- 
cellate, in capitnla globosa, 2.5 cm diametro congestis. 
An erect glabrous shrub, the branches gray, terete, the branchlets 
brown, lenticellate, terete or slightly compressed. Leaves membranous 
or sub membranous, elliptical-oblong or ovate-elliptical, 11 to 15 cm long, 
5 to 7 cm wide, glabrous, the base somewhat acuminate, the apex rather 
abruptly and sharply acuminate; nerves prominent on both surfaces, 
about 13 on each side of the midrib, parallel, somewhat curved, the 
reticulations indistinct; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm long. Flowers unknown. 
Fruit obovoid, smooth, glabrous, not ridged, about 5 mm long, the. 
pedicels about 5 mm long, arranged in a rather dense terminal globose 
head about 2.5 cm in diameter; seeds hemispherical, not ridged. 
Camiguin, in forests, Bur. Sci. 1/01/8 Fenix, June 27, 1907. 
A species well characterized by its congested inflorescence, forming, in fruit, a 
terminal subglobose head about 2.5 cm in diameter. 
P. martillensis Bartl. 
Babuyan, 3908 Fenix. Batan, 361/8 Fpiix, typical forms, agreeing with the 
type in Herb. Prague. 
Known only from the Philippines where it is not uncommon. 
GEOPHILA Don. 
G. herbacea (Jacq.) 0. Ktz. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de -Basco, 3816 Fenix. 
Tropics of the World. 
LASIANTHUS Jack. 
L. obi iqu inervis Merr. 
Camiguin, 1/074 Fenix. 
Rather widely distributed in the Philippines; endemic. 
PAEDERIA Linn. 
P. tomentosa Blume. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3221 Hearns ; 3701 Fenix. 
Common and widely distributed in the Philippines; eastern India to Japan 
and Formosa, the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
MORINDA I jinn. 
M. bracteata Roxb. 
Camiguin, 3979 Fenix. Sabtan, 3736 Fenix. 
Very common and widely distributed in the Philippines; tropical Asia, Malaya 
and northern Australia. 
M. parvifolia Bartl. in DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 449. 
-17. cumingiana Vid. Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 184. 
Lucinaea cumingiana Vid. 1. c. 216; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 152. 
Babuyan, 3924 Fenix. Camiguin, 1/119 Fenix. 
I have examined the type of Bartling’s species in Herb. Prague, which was 
