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subobsoletis; inflorescentiis terminalibus, pedunculatis, griseo- 
puberulis, trifidis, 5 ad 6 cm diametro; fructibus carnosis, cir- 
citer 5 mm longis, ovoideis, laevis, pyrenis plano-convexis, haud 
sulcatis, aloumine valde ruminato. 
A scandent shrub, glabrous except the inflorescence. Branches 
terete, grayish or brown, sometimes with numerous roots on 
the internodes. Leaves elliptic to oblong-elliptic, chartaceous 
or subcoriaceous, dark-brown or dark olivaceous-brown when 
dry, brittle, slightly shining, 4 to 5 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm 
wide, subequally narrowed to the acute base and to the shortly 
acuminate apex; lateral nerves 6 or 7 on each side of the midrib, 
not prominent, slender, anastomosing close to the margin, the 
primary reticulations very few, lax, obscure, the secondary ones 
entirely obsolete; petioles 3 to 5 mm long; stipules suborbicular, 
rounded, about 3 mm in diameter, caducous. Inflorescences 
terminal, peduncled, usually about 6 cm long and 5 to 6 cm 
in diameter, the peduncles about 3 cm in length, each bearing 
three subequal branches, the flowers crowded on the ultimate 
branchlets of the trifid inflorescence, the young branchlets, 
pedicels, and flowers densely puberulent with brownish or gray- 
ish hairs. Flowers numerous, white, fragrant, the pedicels very 
short. Calyx about 1.5 mm long, obscurely 5-toothed. Corolla- 
tube 2 mm long, puberulent outside, villous within, the lobes 
5, oblong, obtuse, about 1.8 mm long. Anthers oblong, 1 mm 
long. Fruit fleshy and white when mature, ovoid, about 5 mm 
long, the pericarp apparently very soft; pyrenes plano-convex, 
smooth, not at all ridged, elliptic to somewhat obovoid, rounded, 
4 mm long, the seeds prominently ruminate. 
MINDANAO, District of Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 924 (type), 
8. n., in September—October, and in June, 1907, in swamps, altitude about 
750 meters. 
This species, in general appearance, rather closely approximates some 
forms of Psychotria ixoroides Bartl., but its fruits are entirely different, 
and its prominently ruminate albumen places it in the genus Grumilea. 
It is doubtless closely allied to Grumilea sarmentosa (Blume) K. Sch., but 
is not at all Psychotria sarmentosa as described by Hooker f. in his Flora 
of British India. 
GRUMILEA NITENS sp. nov. 
Frutex circiter 2 m altus, glaber; foliis coriaceis vel sub- 
coriaceis, oblongis, usque ad 19 cm longis, acutis vel. obscure | 
acuminatis, basi acutis, in siccitate nitidis, brunneis vel supra 
olivaceo-brunneis, margine leviter recurvatis, nervis utrinque 16 
ad 18, distinctis; inflorescentiis terminalibus, usque ad 9 cm 
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