Psychotria bakeri Dwyer

Shrubs to 1.5 m tall, much branched, the branchlets slender, often flexuous, smooth, glabrous except densely ciliolate within the stipules, ultimately dark red, the nodes turgid, well spaced. Leaves elliptic salicoid or elliptic rhomboid, 1.5-6.5(-9.0) cm long, 0.6-1.5(-3.0) cm wide, deltoid toward the apex, acuminate or not, the acumen vague, attenuate acute toward the base, the costa prominulous above, sometimes sulcate, scarcely prominent beneath, to 0.3 mm wide, the lat-eral veins 8-10, moderately conspicuous beneath, inconspicuous above, the mar-gin slightly callose, somewhat wrinkled, stiffly chartaceous, glabrous, smooth, concolorous, dark red; petioles absent or to 3 mm long; stipules free, often per-sistent terminally, glabrous, red when dry, somewhat triangular oblong, rhomboid rotund or somewhat rectangular, truncate at the apex, with 2 subulate horns, often unequal in length, sometimes longer than the body. Inflorescences terminal, solitary, glabrous except for the bracts and bracteoles, 2-4 cm long, often um-belloid in outline, the peduncle to 2.5 cm long, ca. 0.7 cm wide, often with 3 radiate branches terminating the peduncle, to 1 cm long, the flowers of cymules few, on short branches or on a short rachis extending to 0.7 mm long; bracts and bracteoles minute, ovate, to 1 mm long, acute, concave, ciliolate marginally. Flowers sessile, the hypanthium turbinate, 0.8 mm long, glabrous, the calycine cup short, the teeth 5, oblong, 0.5 mm long, obtuse, carnose, glabrous except minutely ciliolate toward the apex; corolla white, the tube cylindrical, to 2.5 mm long, 1.2 mm wide, petaloid, glabrous outside, densely villose within above the