A commutative semigroup G of continuous, selfmappings on (X, d) is called proximately nonexpansive on X if for every x in X and every (β > 0, there is a member g in G such that d(fg(x),fg(y)) ≤ (1 + β) d (x, y) for every f in G and y in X. For a uniformly convex Banach space it is shown that if G is a commutative semigroup of continuous selfmappings on X which is proximately nonexpansive, then a common fixed point exists if there is an x0 in X such that its orbit G(x0) is bounded. Furthermore, the asymptotic center of G(x0) is such a common fixed point.