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Spec. Chak. Perennial or herbaceous : stipules ovate, acute, 

 ciliated: leaves petioled, linear-elliptic or lanceolate, obtuse, 

 subacute at the base, minutely and sharply serrulate, pubescent or 

 more often subglabrous, with the branchlets brownish or rufous- 

 glaucescent : inflorescences shorter than the leaves, thin : bracts 

 ovate, very short, increased on both sides by a cylindric, stipiti- 

 fornl gland truncated at the apex : female flowers 1—5, situated 

 below the spike or at the base of the spike itself: female calyx 

 much larger than the male: segments densely laoero-ciliated, 

 biglandular within : segments of the male calyx ovate, ciliated : 

 ovary armed, glabrous : seeds ellipsoid : flowers small, greenish. 



Coromandel. South Concan. Flowering in the cold season. 



GENUS XLI. EXCJECAEIA. 

 monoecia Diadelpbia. Sen: 



Deriv. From Eicctscare, to blind, alluding to the dangerous 

 acrid juice of the plants. 



Gen. Chab. Calycine segments imbricated : petals and disc 

 none : stamens central : anthers 2-cleft : cells adnate lengthways : 

 rudimentary ovary none : cells of the ovary 1-ovuled : styles not 

 blade-shaped, compressed : ripe fruit opening as a capsule (dry or 

 fleshy), furnished with a developed central columella: seeds 

 ecarunculate : chalaza basilar : embryo vertical : cotyledons broad. 

 — Trees and shrubs : leaves most frequently alternate, bisti- 

 pulate, petioled, feather-nerved or rarely palmatinerved, flrm : 

 flowers monoecious, rarely dioBcious, arranged generally in bisexual 

 spikes, bearing 1 — 2 female flowers at the base, the rest males, 

 sometimes terminal, sometimes axillary : calyces 8 — 2-merous : 

 segments long or short connate : sepals sometimes free, developed 

 or very reduced in the male flowers : stamens 3 — 2 : filaments free 

 or shortly connate at the base, sometimes connate their whole 

 length: anthers extrorse: ovary 3 — 2-celled : styles 3— 2, simple, 

 connate below, stigmatose within : fruit dry or fleshy, always 

 furnished with a central columella : seeds coloured, white, red, or 

 scarlet : testa smooth or rough with tubercles. 



(1) E. BACCATA. (MuUer.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XV. s. 2. p. 1211. 



Syn. Sapium baccatum, 'Roxb.flor. Ind. III.^. 694.— Stillingia 

 baccata, Baill. Etud. gen. Mwph. p. 513. — S. paniculata, A/i^.^on 

 Ind. Bat. suppl. I. p. 461. 



lEngrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 1950. 



Spec. Chab. Tree: leaves long-petioled, ovate, entire, long 

 cuspidate-acuminate, paler and subglaucous beneath, and glandular 

 spotted next the margin near the base and below the apex : 

 petioles not glandular : racemes spiciform, slender, terminal, and 



