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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. S522 Curran, January, 1906 (type). 
Bur. Sci. 79U, B6U, 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 
