482 The Philippine Journal of Science 1914 
GALEARIA Zollinger & Moritzi 
GALEARIA PHILIPPINENSIS sp. nov. § Hugalearia. 
Galearia filiformis Merr in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1910) Bot. 280, non Pax. 
Arbor circiter 15 m alta, inflorescentiis exceptis glabra, brac- 
teis minutis, quam floribus brevioribus, staminibus glabris, pe- 
talis glabris, cochleato-concavis, ramulis glabris, tenuibus; foliis 
chartaceis, usque ad 23 cm longis, oblongis, nervis utrinque cir- 
citer 7, subtus valde prominentibus, arcuato-anastomosantibus; 
inflorescentiis puberulis. 
A small dioecious tree, reaching a height of 15 m, glabrous 
except the inflorescence. Branches and branchlets slender, sub- 
terete, reddish-brown. Leaves chartaceous, oblong, 14 to 23 cm 
long, 4 to 7 cm wide, pale or somewhat brownish, of about the 
same color and somewhat shining on both surfaces when dry, 
the apex blunt-acuminate, the base acute, sometimes a little 
acuminate, often slightly inequilateral; lateral nerves 7 on each 
side of the midrib, very prominent on the lower surface, arched- 
anastomosing, the reticulations lax, very prominent; petioles 5 
mm long or less. Male racemes 10 cm long or more, the rachis 
puberulent, the flowers numerous, pedicelled, fascicled at the 
nodes, their pedicels puberulent, 2 mm long. Calyx puberulent, 
the teeth triangular-ovate, acute, less than 0.5 mm long. Petals 
glabrous, oblong, obtuse or acute, 1.5 mm long, cochleate-concave, 
keeled inside. Stamens entirely glabrous, the filaments 1 mm 
long. Rudimentary ovary obovoid, truncate, 1 mm long, pubes- 
cent. Female racemes slender, up to 18 cm long, puberulent, 
the flowers numerous, sessile, the subtending bracteoles, as in 
the male flowers, linear, less than 1 mm long. Calyx-lobes ovate, 
acute, about 1 mm long. Petals elliptic-ovate, acute, glabrous, 
1.3 mm long, plane or nearly so, keeled inside. Ovary ovoid, 
ferruginous-pubescent, the style-arms about 1 mm long. Fruit 
(very immature) about 6 mm in diameter. 
BASILAN, Bur. Sci. 16319 Reillo (type), September, 1912, growing near 
the seashore, pistillate flowers. MINDANAO, District of Zamboanga, Port 
Banga, For. Bur. 9116 Whitford & Hutchinson, in dipterocarp forests, 
altitude 30 meters, December, 1907, staminate flowers; San Ramon, Hallier, 
January, 1904 with immature fruits: District of Lanao Camp Keithley, 
Mrs. Clemens s. n., June, 1906, May, 1907, staminate flowers. 
This species, as the flowers show, is not at all closely allied to Galearia 
filiformis (Blume) Pax, as shown by comparison with authentic material 
of Blume’s species (perhaps a cotype), collected in Java by Blume himself 
(ex Herb. Leiden), now in the Herbarium of the Bureau of Science. 
It is apparently most closely allied to Galearia wallichii (R. Br.) Hook. 
f., of the Malay Peninsula, from which it differs in its larger leaves, glab- 
rous rachis, and in other characters. 
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