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Psychotria longipedunculata Elmer Leafl. Philip. Bot. 3 (1911) 1027. 
Represented by 10218; otherwise known only from Sibuyan. 
Psychotria pi nnati nervia Elmer Leafl. Philip. Bot. 1 (1906) 26. 
Represented by 9295; other distribution. Tayabas, Laguna, with at least closely 
allied forms in Rizal. 
Sarcocephalus pubescens sp. nov. 
Arbuscula : inflorescentiis axillaribus terminalibusque, solitariis, binis, 
vel ternis, braeteis varie positis; novellis, petiolis, stipulis, subtus foliis 
inflorescentiisque hirsutis; foliis oppositis, ellipticis vel elliptico-obova- 
tis, basi a cutis, apice acuminatis; stipulis interpetiolaribus, late oblan- 
ceolatis, deciduis. 
Inflorescences solitary, paired, or in threes, axillary or terminal, the 
peduncles 1.5 to 3 cm long, hirsute especially below the bracts and at 
the apex; bracts not inserted within 3 mm of the base or of the apex 
of the peduncle, but anywhere between, lanceolate to ovate, obtuse or 
shortly acuminate, 4 to 9 mm long, hirsute: heads excluding styles 1.5 
to 2 cm in diameter, the united ovaries alone 4 to 8 mm in diameter; 
calyx-lobes about 5, yellow, 1.5 mm long, thickened and flattened at 
the apex, deciduous; corolla white, tubular, the tube glabrous, 4.5 to 5 
mm long, the 4 ovate lobes about 1 mm long, rounded or truncate; 
stamens 4, the filaments 0.3 mm long, inserted at the sinuses of the 
corolla-lobes, the anthers ovate, nearly 1 mm long, almost entirely ex- 
serted ; style about 9 mm long, the fusiform stigma 1 mm long ; ovary 
2-celled. , 
A tree attaining a height of 6 m, with a trunk 8 cm in diameter, 
the bark of the terete branches grayish-brown, the youngest shoots pur- 
plish when dry, and together with the stipules, petioles/ and the under 
surface of the leaves fuscous-hirsute : leaves opposite, the petioles 6 to 
12 mm long, the lamina submembranaceous, brownish when dry, elliptic 
or elliptic-obovate, 5 to 9.5 cm long, 2.5 to 5.5 cm wide, or some still 
smaller, the base usually rounded but meeting the petiole acutely, the 
apex abruptly contracted into a slender obtuse acumen 6 to 12 mm 
long; lateral veins 7 or 8, reddish, the secondary veins numerous and 
fairly conspicuous; stipules interpetiolar, broadly oblanceolate, 15 to 20 
mm long, rounded at the apex, deciduous. 
Poliixo, in a meadow about 2 km east of the town, at about 10 m elevation, Bur. 
Sci. 6917 Robinson (type). Samae, San Juan, For. Bur. 12882 Rosenbluth, 
local name malbog, the wood used for tables; plant in late flower, with somewhat 
longer and thicker leaves, but otherwise very similar. The species is allied to 
8. junghunnii Miq., but is separable by the pubescence, shape of the leaves 
and stipules, and other less conspicuous characters. A still more natural alliance 
may be with 8. liirsutus Hav., of Borneo, which seems to have shorter and dif- 
ferently shaped stipules, larger and thinner leaves, and larger heads of flowers. 
