Psychotria durilancifolia Dwyer

4 cm wide, acute toward the apex, acuminate, the acumen to 1.3 cm long, atten-uate acute at the base, the costa prominulous above, prominent beneath, the lateral veins 6-7, arcuate, not forming an undulate submarginal vein, the inter-venal areas smooth, the smallest veins inconspicuous, prominulous, the margins lightly revolute, coriaceous, concolorous, drying reddish brown, glabrous above, puberulous on the costa and veins beneath; petioles to 1 cm long, stiff, abaxially concave and puberulent; stipules not seen. Inflorescences terminal, solitary, cy-mose paniculate, pyramidal, to 12 cm long, to 7 cm wide, the peduncle to 6 cm long, the branches opposite, well spaced, strongly angular ascending, to 6 cm long, with each branch terminated by 3 short branches, the flowers disposed in a few clusters. Flowers on short pedicels to 2 mm long, glabrate; hypanthium and calycine cup to 1 mm long, the cup saucer shaped, thickly petaloid, the teeth absent; corolla white, the tube shorter than the lobes, thickly petaloid, glabrous, densely tufted, villose between filament attachment areas, the lobes 5, oblong, 2-3 mm long, slightly cucullate, glabrous; stamens 5, the anthers oblong, 1.0-1.2 mm long, obtuse, the filaments short or 2 times the length of the anthers, attached near the orifice, disc hemispherical, to 0.7 mm long with a conspicuous ring at the apex, to 1 mm long, the style ca. 1 mm long, much dilated above the middle, the stigmas 2, erect, fingerlike. Fruits not seen.