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mosing, the reticulations lax, obscure; petioles densely ferru- 
ginous-hirsute, 1 cm long or less. Inflorescence terminal, the 
flowers fascicled, crowded, subsessile or shortly petioled. Fruits 
ovoid, about 8 mm long, crowded, black when dry, sparingly 
hirsute, not at all sulcate or ridged. Pyrenes plano-convex, 
smooth, about 5 mm long, obovoid, rounded at the apex, base 
acute, the seed ruminate. 
SAMAR, Cauayan Valley, Phil. Pl. 1701 Ramos, April, 1914, in forests, 
along small streams. 
This very characteristic species is readily recognizable by its ferru- 
ginous indumentum, its papillate leaves, and its densely crowded, appar- 
ently fascicled, sessile or subsessile flowers and fruits. 
GRUMILEA RADICANS sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, circiter 3 m altus, inflorescentiis puberulis, 
ramis teretibus, saepe radicantibus; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, 
chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, usque ad 11 cm longis, in siccitate 
griseis, nitidis, apice tenuiter acuminatis, basi acutis, longe 
petiolatis, nervis utrinque circiter 8; paniculis terminalibus, 
pedunculatis, ut videtur paucifloris, sub fructu circiter 4.5 cm 
diametro; fructibus ellipsoideis, 5 mm longis, laevis, seminibus 
plano-convexis, laevis, nec sulcatis nec carinatis, aloumine ru- 
minato. . 
A scandent glabrous shrub reaching a height of 3 m, the stem 
5 mm in diameter, often rooting to its support, terete, the branch- 
lets terete, cinereous, 2 to 83 mm in diameter. Leaves oblong 
to oblong-lanceolate, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, grayish and 
shining when dry, the lower surface densely and minutely 
puncticulate, 7 to 11 cm long, 1.5 to 3.5 cm wide, narrowed 
upward to the slenderly acuminate apex, the base acute; lateral 
nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, distant, curved, slen- 
der, distinct, the primary reticulations lax; petioles 1 to 2.5 cm 
long. Panicles terminal, peduncled, in fruit about 4.5 cm in 
diameter, the peduncles about 3 cm long, the primary branches 
three. Fruits ellipsoid, green, smooth, about 5 mm long, black 
when dry, crowned by the short, cylindric, truncate tube which 
is about 2 mm in diameter and about one-half as long. Seeds 
two, plano-convex, smooth, not at all sulcate or keeled, promi- 
nently ruminate. 
LEYTE, Buenavista, near Jaro, C. A. Wenzel 1193 (type), in forests, 
altitude about 500 m, October 1, 1914. Here I also refer Wenzel 754, from 
Leyte, and Bur. Sci. 18730, 18752 McGregor, from Biliran. 
This species is allied to Grumilea sarmentosa K. Sch., from which it 
differs in its differently shaped inflorescence, and its quite differently 
shaped leaves. The same characters serve to distinguish this species from 
Grumilea sibuyanensis. 
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