Dr. B. Seemann on a new Species of Upas-Tree. 405 
and the apical third sooty brown, the interval between these 
darker patches being of a paler tawny colour. Legs black, a 
ring at the apex of the femora and the tarsi bright fulvous. 
This species, which is no doubt a local modification of P. Jan- 
soni, is found at Para. 
[To be continued. ] 
XLIV.—On Antiaris Bennettil, a new Species of Upas-Tree from 
Polynesia. By Burtuoip Srrmann, Pu.D., F.LS. 
Antiaris Bennettii ; arbor mediocris ; ramulis petiolisque pubescenti- 
bus, demum glabris; foliis brevipetiolatis ovato-oblongis acumi- 
natis integerrimis, basi ineequali-cordatis, utrinque subglabris, supra 
lucidis ; floribus masculis fasciculatis (2-4), pedunculis velutino 
pubescentibus, involucro laciniis ovato-acuminatis perigoniorum 
longitudinem reflexis, foemineis solitariis ; drupa ovato-acuta, dense 
velutina (v. v. sp.). 
Antiaris Bennettii, Seem. in Bonplandia, vol. ix. (1861), p. 259, 
et ibid. vol. x. p. 3, t. 7 (1862).—Bennett’s Gatherings of a Na- 
turalist in Australasia (London, 1860), p. 403. 
Nomen yernaculum Tucopiense ‘Mami,’ teste G. Bennett; Vi- 
tiense ‘ Mavu ni Toga,’ teste Seemann. 
Geogr. Distribution; Viti Levu, about Namara, and Moturiki 
(Seemann! n. 449, Harvey !).—Tucopia, lat. 12° S., long. 169° E. 
(G. Bennett! im Herb. Hook.), and Wallis Island, lat. 16° 30! S., 
long. 176° W. (Sir E. Home! in Mus. Brit.) 
Hitherto only three species of Antiaris were known, viz., 
A. toxicaria, Lesch. (the genuine Upas-tree of Java), A. innoxia, 
BL, and A. macrophylla, RK. Br. A fourth species (ramis foliisque 
utrinque velutinis) is cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gardens 
at Kew. A fifth species was found by Thwaites in Ceylon, and 
has been described by me as A. Zeylanica (Bonpl. x. p. 4, in 
adnot.) ; it is called by the Cingalese “ Ritti-gass,” and supplies, 
like Q. saccidora, Dalz. materials for sacks. In his ‘ Enumera- 
tion Pl. Zeyl” p. 268, Thwaites classes it with A. innozia, BL, 
and A. saccidora, Dalz.; but I am by no means certain that 
even A. innoxia and A. saccidora are identical, and feel con- 
vinced that A. Zeylanica, Seem., is a very distinct species, at 
once distinguished from A. saccidora, Dalz., of which Wight 
gives a figure, by its scabrous leaves and pear-shaped fruits*. A 
* Antiaris Zeylanica; arbor excelsa; ramulis, petiolis, pedunculis dru- 
pisque velutinis ; foliis obovato-oblongis, acuminatis, integerrimis, supra 
seabris, subtus hirtellis; involucri masculi laciniis perigoniorum longi- 
tudinem reflexis ; drupa obovato-obtusa (v. s. sp.).—A. Zeylanica, Seem. 
in Bonpl. vol. x. p. 4, in adnot. A. innovia, Thwait. Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 
p- 263, non BI., excl. syn. omn.—In Zeylania, ubi, teste cl. Thwaites, 
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