Puate 2741, 
EXCCCARIA BENTHAMIANA, Hemsi. 
EUPHORBIACER. 
E. benthamiana, Hemsl. (sp. nov.) ; species ex affinitate Z. Agallocha, 
L., a qua foliis multo majoribus crassioribus et floribus femineis in 
— distinctis recedit. 
simplices vel pauciramose, 1-3 poll. longe, densx, multiflore ; bractez 
semicyathiformes, triflor, flore centrali | pedicellato, lateralibus sessili- 
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us. Perianthium triphyllum, phyllis 4 lin. longis acutis. Stamina 
3, perianthium superantia. lores jfeminei solitarii fn bini (an 
semper?) distincte pedicellati. Perianthium triphyllv dorsiven- 
trale, phyllo postico interiore, phyllis lateralibus antice non obtegenti- 
us, sinu uniglanduloso. Ovariwm glabrum, 3-loculare, stylis validis 
recurvis Pessoa bas. Capsula tricocea, crust acea, tarde dehiscens. 
emina ovoidea, 24~3 lin. longa ; embryo diametro seminis fere zquans. 
Stillingta lineata, * var, densifiora, Baker, Fl. Maurit. & Seych. p. 314 ; 
‘wceccarie species nova, Benth. in Benth. et Hook. Gen . Pl. ii. p. 334. 
SEYCHELLEs : without locality, Wright; Mahé, 800 to 2,000 feet, 
Horne ; Mount Sebert, Mahé, Thomasset. 
Mr. J.G. Baker, with imperfect material before him, referred this plant 
to Stillingia lineata, but, as pointed out by ntham, it is a species of 
Excecaria, allied to HE. A gallocha, It is however very distinct in 
foliage, in the bracts of the male iciticeessenisls and in the periant 
of the female flowers, which has both edges of the Srome segment 
pind by the lateral segments, which, in it turn — meet at 
e base, with a gland in the sinus.— W. Bormye Hemsnr 
Fig. 1, part . paprtonpessdi 2, cluster of male flowers from which the bract has 
heen removed ; male flower; 4, an advanced ie e flower, incorrect as to the 
perianth ; 5, fi ee 6. a seed; 7, the same enlarged; 8, section of the same showing 
the embryo, Fn: 5 and 6 natural size; all the rest enlarged. 
