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MERRILL. 
diameter, 2-celled, apparently longitudinally dehiscent. Rudimentary 
ovary none. Pistillate flowers unknown, but from the fruiting specimens 
axillary, solitary or (?) shortly racemose, the sepals from immature 
fruits lanceolate, acuminate, densely pubescent, 7 mm long, deciduous. 
Ovary ovoid, densely pubescent, 3-celled, each cell with two pendulous 
ovules in the upper inner angle; styles 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, 3 cm in diameter, the exocarp 
corky, the endocarp hard, almost bone-like in texture, 3-celled, loculicid- 
ally 3-valved; seeds (immature) ellipsoid-ovoid, glabrous. 
Negros, Hiraugaan River, For. Bur. 7282 Everett, May 22, 1907, with stanii- 
nate flowers, in dense forests at 60 m altitude; same locality, For. Bur. 7316 
Everett, March, 1907, sterile. Luzon, Province of Pangasinan, Salasa, For. Bur. 
9633 Zschoklce, December, 1907, in forested stream-depressions, sterile: Province 
of Zambales, Bolet River, near Santa Cruz, For. Bur. 8230 Curran c£ Merritt, 
December 4, 1907, with immature fruits, on forested slopes at an altitude of 
270 m: Province of Cagayan, Calamaniugan, For. Bur. 11311 Klemme, November 
14, 1907, with nearly mature fruits, in forests at 15 m altitude. Local names, 
Pangasinan Ebnel; Cagayan Maraculilem. 
Mr. Zscliokke notes that the tree is cut 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. Klemme 
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 
Bentliam and Hooker, and Pax in Engler and Prantl, it apparently falls in the 
Phyllantheae of the former, and in the Platylobeae-Phyllanthoideae-BrideUae of 
the latter, except in the latter case the petals are 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 I 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 Platylobeae-Phyllanthoideae-Phyllantliineae, and under 
this into the Drypetinae, near Putranjiva Wall., and Petalostigmd 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 Euphorbiaceae, 
but I have been unable to place it elsewhere. 
The above new genus is dedicated to Mr. H. D. 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 of southern Negros, 
while prosecuting field work there in May, 1908. 
GALEARI A Zoll. & Mor. 
Galearia filiformis (Blume) Boerl. Handl. FI. Nederl. Ind. 3 1 (1899) 282. 
Antidesma filiforme Blume Bijdr. (1826) 1124. 
Bennettia filiformis Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 1 5 2 (1862) 1038. 
Bennettia javanica R. Br. PI. Jav. Rar. (1852) 249, pi. 50. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Mres, Clemens's, n. May, June, 1906-7. 
