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MERRILL. 



diameter, 2-eelled, apparentlj longitudinally dehiscent Rudimentary 

 oyary none. Pistillate flowers unknown, but from the fruiting specimens 

 axillary, solitary or (?) shortly racemose, the sepals from immature 

 fruits Lanceolate, acuminate, densely pubescent, T mm long, deciduous. 

 Ovary ovoid, densely pubescent, 3-celled, each cell with two pendulous 

 ovules in the upper inner angle; Btyles 3, simple, free or slightly united 

 at the base, erect, spreading or incurved, thickened, their backs ferrugi- 

 nous-pubescent, their inner surfaces papillose-stigmatose from base to 

 apex. Fruit, when young, ovoid, densely pubescent, when nearly mature 

 depressed-globose, glabrous or nearly so, :; cm in diameter, the exocarp 

 corky, the endocarp hard, almost hone-like in texture, 3-celled, loculicid- 

 allv 3-valved; seeds (immature) ellipsoid-ovoid, glabrous. 



Nbgbos, Himugaan River, For. Bur. 7282 Everett, \\:\y 22, 1907, with stami- 

 nate Bowers, in dense forests at 60 no altitude; same locality, For. Bur. 7.m; 

 Everett, March, 1907, sterile. Luzon, Province ot Pangasinan, Salasa, For. Bur. 

 !>(>3.i Ztchokke, December, 1907, in forested stream-depressions, sterile: Province 

 (ft Zambales, Bolet River, near Santa Cruz, For. Bur, 8290 Outran d Merritt, 

 December i, 1907, with Immature fruits, on forested slopes at an altitude of 

 270 in: Province of Qagayan, Calamaniugan, For. Bur. tlSll Klemme, November 

 14. 1907, with nearly mature fruits, in forests at 15 m altitude. Local names, 

 Pangasinan Ebnel; Cagayan Maraculilem. 



Mr. Zschokke notes that the tree Is n\( for lumber; Messrs. Curran & Merritt 



that the tree has a very thin brick-red bark which is red inside, and that the 

 tree is subject to heart -decay, while the native ranger accompanying Mr. Klenune 

 states that the fruit is used as a condiment in the preparation of food. 



The affinities of this new genus are not clear to me, although following 

 Bentham and Hooker, and Pax in Engler and Prantl, it apparently falls in the 

 PhuUantheoe of the former, and in the Platylobeae-Phyllanthoideae-Brideliae of 



the latter, except in the latter case the petals arc wanting, and moreover the 

 present genus does not resemble any of those placed here by Pax. The sepals 

 are not in the least Imbricate, so far as 1 can determine, but assuming that 

 they are slightly so, or that the above form is anomalous in this respect, it 



would then fall into the Platylo^eae-PhylUmthoideae-Pkyllanthmeae, and under 

 this into the Drupetinae, near Putranjiva Wall., and Petaloetifma F. Mull.; it 

 is however very different from both these genera, although its affinity may be 



here. There is a possibility that it does not really belong in the Euphorbioceae, 



but I have been unable to place it elsewhere. 



The above new genus is dedicated to Mr. II. 1). Everett, one of the collectors, 

 and formerly a forester in the Philippine Forestry Bureau, who lost his life at 



the hands of members of the wild tribe inhabiting the interior ,,f southern Negro*, 

 while prosecuting field work there in May, 1908. 



GALEARIA /oil. & Mor. 



Galearia filiformis (Blume) Boerl. Ilandl. Fl. Nederl. End. 3 1 (1899) 282. 



Antideama filiform* Blume Bijdr. (1826) 1124. 



Bennettia filiformis- Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 1 5' : (1882) 10.38. 



Bennettia javanioa R. Br. PI. Jav. Bar. (1852) 249, i>l. 50. 



Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Mres. Clemens s. n. May, June, 1906-7. 



