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longis e basi ramosis; fructibus paucis, obovoideis, brunneis, 
laevis, haud sulcatis, circiter 8 mm longis, pyrenis plano-convexis, 
laevis, albumine valde ruminato. 
A shrub about 2 m high, quite glabrous. Branches terete, 
somewhat grayish, wrinkled when dry, the younger ones yellow- 
ish-brown. Leaves oblong, mostly 14 to 19 cm long, 4.5 to 6.5 
cm wide, subequally narrowed to the acute base and to the acute 
or slightly acuminate apex, brownish or the upper surface 
brownish-olivaceous when dry, smooth, shining, the margins 
slightly recurved; lateral nerves 16 to 18 on each side of the 
midrib, slender, curved, distinctly anastomosing, the primary 
reticulations lax; petioles 2 to 2.5 cm long; stipules caducous, 
the scars prominent. Inflorescence terminal, up to 9 cm long, 
with one or two branches from the very base, these spreading 
and 5 cm long or less, otherwise unbranched below the upper 
one-fourth, the branches here short, each with two or three 
fruits. Fruits obovoid, brown when dry, smooth, not at all 
ridged or sulcate, about 8 mm long, the pyrenes plano-convex, 
smooth, seeds prominently ruminate. 
Luzon, Province of Isabela, Palanan Bay, Bur. Sci. 21157 Escritor, June 
25, 1918. 
This species is well characterized by its brownish leaves which are 
rather prominently shining when dry, subequally narrowed at both ends, 
the margins slightly recurved. The obovoid smooth fruits somewhat re- 
semble those of Grumilea lugoniensis Merr., which is perhaps the closest 
alliance of the present species among the numerous Philippine forms. 
GRUMILEA PAPILLATA sp. nov. 
Frutex erectus, ramulis foliisque prominente ferrugineo-hir- 
sutus;. foliis oblongis ad oblongo-ellipticis, chartaceis, usque ad 
11 em longis, utrinque plus minusve papillatis, acuminatis, basi 
acutis, nervis utrinque circiter 12, subtus prominentibus; fruct- 
ibus terminalibus, fasciculatis, dense confertis, ovoideis, circiter 
8 mm longis, leviter hirsutis, laevis; pyrenis plano-convexis, 
laevis, albumine ruminato. 
An erect shrub, 1 m high fide Ramos, the branchlets and 
leaves prominently hirsute with spreading ferruginous hairs. 
Branches terete, grayish to brownish, glabrous, the branchlets 
very densely ferruginous-hirsute. Leaves oblong to oblong- 
elliptic, chartaceous, brown when dry, 8 to 11 cm long, 2.5 to 
3.5 cm wide, base acute to subobtuse, apex distinctly acuminate, 
both surfaces with scattered papillae, the papillae extended as 
ferruginous hairs, the midrib and lateral nerves on the lower 
surface prominently hirsute; lateral nerves about 12 on each 
side of the midrib, very prominent, curved, obscurely anasto- 
