Celodiscus.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 427 
peltate orbicular-ovate cuspidate entire or 3-lobed denticulate softly appressed-tomen- 
tose and ashy -white beneath, petiole as long as the limb, racemes elongate bisexual 
white-tomentose, bracts sublinear, pedicels very short, fem. calyx thrice as large as 
the male very unequally 3—5-fid, stamens about 60, filaments long, connectives thick 
papillose, central receptacle broad naked, ovary ellipsoid pubescent, styles papillose 
within.— East Indies (Herd. Lenormand).—Description from Mueller. From the 
peltate limb this may be sought amongst Malloti. Mueller says it is something like 
M. barbatus, but that it wants a fem. disk, that the male has an intrastaminal disk, 
and that the ovary is not softly echinate. 
C. THuNBERGIANUS, Muell. Arg. in DC. l. c. 758; Beddome Forester’s Man. 
206; branchlets glabrous, young compressed angled and rusty-pubescent, leaves 
Opposite not peltate in very unequally petioled pairs ovate cuspidate or acuminate 
base rounded contracted or subcordate entire crenulate or repand-toothed glabrous 
above beneath glandular-dotted and with the nerves roughly puberulous, stipules 
small subulate, petiole 6-10 times shorter than the limb, racemes slender long- 
peduncled rusty puberulous shorter than the leaves, bracts short few-fld., male fl. sub- 
ellipsoid } in. long, stamens about 100 polyadelphous, connective apiculate glandular, 
central naked area broad.—Ceylon, Herb. Thunberg.—Habit of Mallotus eriocarpus, 
ut more robust and polyandrous. Mueller l.c. It is unknown to Thwaites. 
53. MALLOTUS, Lour. 
Trees orshrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate, entire toothed or 3-lobed 
Penninerved or 3-7-plinerved, peltate or not, often glandular-dotted beneath, 
and sometimes with glandular areas at the base above. Flowers small or 
minute, dicecious or moncecious, in axillary or terminal simple or panicled 
Spikes or racemes, apetalous ; males clustered, fem. solitary in the bracts. 
Disk usually 0. MALE Fr. Calyx globose or ovoid, valvately 3—5-partite. 
tamens 90-30 or ‘more, crowded on a central flat or convex receptacle, 
ments free; anthers small, dorsifixed, cells globose or shortly oblong 
Darallel adnate to and often widely separated by the thickened connective. 
Pistillode 0 or very minute. Fem. Fr. Calyx spathaceous or valvately 3-6- 
lobed or partite. Ovary 2-4-celled; styles free or connate below, spreading 
or recurved, entire plumose or papillose ; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule of 
; rarely 4, 2-valved smooth tubercled echinate spinous or paleaceous cocci. 
eds ovoid oblong or globose, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 
Toad, flat. — Species about 70 in the tropics of the Old World. 
It is very difficult toarrange the species of this genus in a natural manner, and the 
Owing attempt will require modification when the species are better known. 
" Sect. I. Buumzopenproy. Disk glandular in both sexes. Seeds with a 
ick fleshy coat, 
natti M. Kurzii, Hook. f.; quite glabrous, leaves very coriaceous ter- 
eyma Whorled triple-nerved elliptic or subcordate obtusely cuspidate, male 
Toke „very short fasciclel not viscid, buds globose. Blumeodendron 
okbrai, Kurz For. Fl, ji. 391 (not of Mueller). 
CD AMAN ISLANDS, Helfer (Kew Distrib. 5010), Kurz. ?PERAK, King's 
ector, 
ie evergreen tree, 40-60 ft. Leaves 6-10 by 3-6 in., pale brown when dry and 
z ngh base rounded or subacute ; nerves 4-6 pair above the basal, very strong 
eig ^ diverging in the Perak specimens, nearly straight in the Andaman ones, 
ale oles very faint; petiole 14-2 in., very stout, swollen at the base and top. 
iin "ames 1-1 in., with a very short stout peduncle; pedicels as long. Perianth 
aam., 2-3-valved ; receptacle convex, covered with tumid glands between the 
ents. Stamens 20-30; anthers nearly orbicular, connective rather broad, slits 
foll 
