DecemBer 23, 1908] A Fascictr or SourH Nearos Fias 539 
lowish, the scales dark brown and not protruding; involucral 
bracts 3, smooth, chestnut brown, persistent, imbricate at the 
base, ovately triangular, about 5 mm. long, each fruit provid- 
ed on the outer lower side with an additional bract; stam- 
inate flowers among the umbilical scales, 3.5 mm. long, the 
lower two thirds pedunculate, the upper portion obovoid, mo- 
nandrous; perianth snugly overarching the anther, dark brown, 
rather rigid, ultimately separating into 4 obovate segments; 
filament very slender; anther 1.33 mm. long, broadly elliptic; 
inner side of syconium provided with sparse chaffy scales 
1 mm. long; gall flowers mostly sessile, irregularly ovate, 
nearly 3 mm. long, dark brown, closely enveloped by 3 
similarly colored 2 mm. long involucral acute bracts; style 
Straight, nearly terminal, 1 mm. long, oblique and deeper 
brown at the apex. : 
Type specimen 10254, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, June, 1908. 
This tree was found in a deep canyon filled with dense 
humid woods at 2750 feet. Related to but not identical with 
the following species: 
F. balete Merr. F. vidalliana Warb. 
F. altissima Blm. F. forstenii Miq. 
F. clementis Merr. F. clusioides Miq. 
F. palawanensis Merr. F. indica Linn. 
This same species was collected in May, 1906, prov- 
ince of Negros Occidental, by H. D. Everett, (Forestry Bu- 
reau record 4264). Named in honor and in commemo- 
ration of Mr. Everett of the Forestry Bureau who collect- 
ed many interesting plants on the island of Negros and who 
lost his life at the hands of the natives while crossing the moun- 
tains of southern Negros in June of 1908. 
3. SYNOECIA. 
Ficus gpiocarpa Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. 3; 269 
and 289, 1863-9. Urostigma apiocarpa Miq. l. c. 410. eee 
Specimen 10232, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, June, 1908. 
Leaves quite variable at least in size upon the same 
plant, but more uniformly elongated acuminate than in my 
