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rulent, their peduncles 1 cm long or less. Flowers usually 3 in 

 each umbel, subtended by a whorl of very early deciduous, linear- 

 oblong, pubescent, 2 to 2.5 mm long bracteoles. Sepals 5, 

 stellate-puberulent with grayish hairs, obtuse or acute, 5 mm 

 long, 2 mm wide. Petals oblong, 2 mm long, obtuse, thin, gla- 

 brous except the large, basal gland which is 1 mm long and 

 prominently ciliate-pubescent. Stamens indefinite; filaments 2 

 to 2.5 mm long. Ovary densely villous. Style 2 mm long, 

 glabrous; stigma somewhat lobed, about 1 mm wide. Fruit de- 

 pressed-obovoid, about 1 cm in diameter, prominently wrinkled 

 when dry, brown, when immature prominently hirsute, when 

 mature with few, scattered, long hairs, not at all lobed, the 

 endocarp bony, 4-celled, each cell with a single seed. 



Palawan, near Iwahig, For. Bur. 3522 Curran, January, 1906 (type), 

 Bur. Sci. 79Jt, 864, 888 Foxworthy, April to May, 1906. 



A species with much the aspect of Grewia acuminata Juss., and manifestly 

 allied to that species, differing especially in its very much smaller flowers. 



GREWIA PARVA sp. nov. § Eugrewia. 



Arbor parva circiter 4 m alta, ramulis subtus foliis inflores- 

 centiisque parce stellato-pubescentibus ; foliis oblongis, acumi- 

 natis, 3.5 ad 4.5 cm longis, aequilateralibus, apice acuminatis, basi 

 acutis vel obtusis; inflorescentiis axillaribus, solitariis, umbel- 

 latis; fructibus subglabris, 2-lobatis, lobis 1- vel 2-locellatis, 

 circiter 5 mm longis. 



A small tree or a shrub about 4 m high. Branches slender, 

 terete, brownish, prominently lenticellate, glabrous, the branch- 

 lets slightly pubescent with somewhat appressed, short, simple 

 or stellate hairs. Leaves oblong, chartaceous, 3.5 to 4.5 cm long, 

 1.2 to 1.6 cm wide, somewhat brownish when dry, the upper 

 surface shining, slightly pubescent on the midrib and lateral 

 nerves, the lower surface slightly paler, rather uniformly pub- 

 escent with scattered, short, stellate hairs, the apex acuminate, 

 the base obtuse or acute, the margins distinctly and uniformly 

 crenate-serrate ; base 3-nerved, the nerves not prominent, reach- 

 ing the middle of the leaf or slightly above, the lateral nerves 

 above the basal pair 3 or 4 on each side of the midrib, as- 

 cending, curved, slender; petioles pubescent, 2 to 3 mm long; 

 stipules not seen, apparently very early deciduous. Flowers 

 unknown. Infrutescence axillary, solitary, umbellate, somewhat 

 pubescent, the peduncles less than 1 cm long, each bearing from 

 1 to 3 fruits. Fruits black when dry, nearly glabrous, or with 



