NMALLOTUS. EUPH. ACALYPHEJE (Avcr. MULLER). 957 
viuscule cuspidato-acuminatus, integer, basi acutus, lavigatus, subtus palli- 
dior. Racemi axillares, pedunculati, basi sepe minute foliosi, foliis duplo 
breviores, fusci, viscoso-nitiduli. Pedicelli distantes, fere horizontales, 2 1 mm. 
longi, calyce masculo sesqui v. duplo longiores. Glandule nana, orbiculari- 
ovata, crassiuscula. Receptaculum hemisphericum. Filamenta libera. Con- 
nectivum supra loculos haud productum. Capsule (ex Hassk. et Bl. 1. e) 
subglobose, trisulcatee, apice obsolete 6-sulcate, diametro sesquipollicares, 
extus fibroso-carnose, intus lignose, virides, subglaucescentes, tricoccc, 
3-I-sperma; cocca bivalvia. Semina compressiuscula, truncato-triangularia, 
spurie crasse arillata. Testa exterior coriacea, purpurea; rhaphe excurrens, 
crassa. Albumen sebaceum. Cotyledones foliacec, planae, suborbiculares, basi 
subcordate ; radicula brevis. (v. s.) 
Sect. II. RorvLERoPsis. — Rottlere sp. Wall. Cat. — 
Crotonis sp. Wall. Cat. 
Discus utriusque sexus 0. Antherze introrse, utrinque emarginate ; connec- 
tivum latiusculum. Semina spurie arillata. 
2. M. LAPPACEUS, indumento stellari detergibili fulvo, foliis oppositis basi 
haud peltatis membranaceis, bracteis linearibus elongatis, staminibus circ. 120, 
ovario 3-5-loculari, capsulis arcte sessilibus densiuscule longe echinatis, 
aculeis mollibus dense fasciculato-piligeris villosis, seminibus subglobosis 
levigatis. 5 In India orient. ad Seguin (Wallich n. 7845!), prope Yenang- 
huen (Wall. n. 1738!). Croton lztus Wall. Cat. n. 7738 (nomen). Rottlera 
lappacea Wall. Cat. n. 7845 (nomen). Ramuli superne compresso-angulosi, 
pulveraceo-tomentelli. Stipulae 6-8 mm. long, lineari-subulata. Petioli limbo 
2-b-plo breviores. Limbus foliorum 8-12 cm. longus, 4-8 cm. latus, ovatus, 
acuius, basi obtusus, crenato-denticulatus, supra hirto-tomentellus. Inflores- 
cenli: axillares. Racemi masc. 3-4 cm. longi, basi in pedunculum 1-2 cm. 
longum abeuntes. Spicae foem. breves, compactiflore. Bracteze masc. 3-5-flora. 
Calyces masc. aperientes 3 mm. lati, acuminati. Capsule fere ut in M. rici- 
noide, dense approximate, quasi glomerulum formantes, absque aculeis 
4-10 mm. longis 12 mm. late. Semina 5 mm. longa. (v. s.) 
Sect. III. MELANoLEPIS Müll. Arg. ín Linnza, v. 35. p. 185. — Genus 
Melanolepis feichenb. f. et Zolling. in. Linnza 1856, vol. 28. p. 324; 
Hassk. Hort. bogor. ed. nov. p. 28; Baill. Etud. gén. Euphorb. p. 398; 
Miq. Flor. Ind. bat. vol. 1. part. 2. p. 399. — Rottlerz sect. 2. Bl. 
Büdr. p. 609 (absque nomine) — Crotonis sp. L. —  Rottlere sp. 
Auct. — Adeliz sp. Blanco. — Ricini sp. Hoxb. 
Discus florum foem. v. etiam .masculorum evolutus, urceolaris, ligulis sta- 
minodialibus glanduliformibus breviusculis instructus, v. ligula plus minusve 
deficientes. Connectivum vulgo obconicum, truncatum, loculos szpius haud 
superans, normaliter rubellum demumque nigricans. Ovarium vulgo 2-loculare. 
Semina haud spurie arillata. — Differt-a sectionibus precedentibus seminibus 
epidermide arcta nec carnosulo-relaxata tectis et a sequentibus presentia disci 
hypogyni. 
A. Limbus foliorum ambitu suborbicularis, longe palmatinervius, longe 
. petiolatus. Petioli limbum subacquantes v. haud raro eum superantes. 
1* Limbus basi late peltatus, lobatus. 
3. M. BARBATUS (Müll. Arg. in|Linnzea, vol. 34. p. 184), tomento floccoso 
subferrugineo, limbo foliorum amplo trilobo margine repando-denticulato, 
capsulis densissime et molliter ferrugineo-echinatis exacte globosis, seminibus 
ellipsoideis subtuberculatis nitidulis. ln India orient. prope Amherst 
(Wall. n. 7820 pr. p.! 7822! Griffith n. 4761!), in Singapore (Lobb n. 297! 
in hb. Boiss. et in hb. Mus. paris.), in prov. Concan (Stocks!). Rottlera bar- 
bata Wall.-Cat. n. 7822 (nomen) ; Baill. Etud. gén. Euphorb. p. 423 (nomen). 
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