Mallotus. | CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 429 
leaves opposite or alternate long-petioled broadly or orbicular ovate finely 
acuminate, base 3-nerved, male racemes elongate very stout, flowers large, 
fem. racemes shorter, capsules thin tomentose and shaggy with long soft 
flexuous stellately tomentose spines. M. oreophilus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea 
xxxiv. 188, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 964; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 362.— 
Wall. Cat. 7824. 
CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 5-7000 ft., 
J. D. H.,&c. KnasIA Mrs., alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. H. 4. T. T. 
A small tree. Leaves 3-8 in. diam., thinly coriaceous, glabrous above except 
when young, quite entire; base truncate, rarely subcordate, or acute in young leaves ; 
colour of pubescence very variable, nerves and nervules strong. Male racemes 
6-12 in.; bracts lanceolate; flowers i in. diam., globose in bud; stamens very 
numerous. Fem. racemes very stout, especially in fruit; pedicels short, stout ; 
sepals narrow; ovary shaggy with short tomentose processes. Capsules „densely 
crowded, 3 in. diam., crinite; cocci very thin. Seeds % in. long, subhemispheric, 
black, opaque. 
5. M. albus, Muell. Arg. in Linnæa xxxiv. 188, and in DC. Prodr. 
Xv. n. 965; branches leaves beneath and inflorescence appressedly stellately 
or scurfily white or rusty-tomentose, leaves alternate broadly ovate or orbicular 
or triangular-ovate acuminate entire or with shallow lobes rarely sinuate- 
toothed, base 3-5-nerved rounded and narrowly peltate or truncate rarely 
acute, flowers in axillary and terminal pyramidal panicles, males globose, 
fem. calyx 4-5-lobed, capsule 3-4-coccous muricate and with short soft white 
tomentose processes. Brandis For. Fl. 444; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 361; 
Beddome Forester’s Man. 208. M. tetracocens, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 383. 
Rottlera alba & tetracocea, Rowh. Fl. Ind. iii. 829, 826. R. mappoides, 
Dalz. in Hook. Journ, Bot, iii. (1851) 122; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 230. 
R. peltata, Wight Ic. t. 1873. R. paniculata, Wall. Cat. 7812.—Wall. Cat. 
7818 B, C, E. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA; ascending to 3000 ft., J. D. H., &c. BENGAL, Assam and 
Southward to CHITTAGONG. 
A small evergreen tree, 30-40 ft.; branchlets rather stout. Leaves 4-6, rarely 
in; diam., young densely rusty-tomentose, sometimes coriaceous, base with 2 
glands ; petiole 3-8 in. ; stipules minute. Male panicles with long rather slender 
branches, fem. shorter stouter. Flowers diccious; male buds globose 1—j in. diam., 
calyx 4-5 partite, fem. calyx hemispheric. Capsule 3-2 in. diam., globose, white, 
unn 4- rarely 5-coccous. Seed black, shining.-—1I have not given the Penang 
ocality to this plant, and I suspect that Roxburgh is in error in doing so. 
a AR. occidentalis; fem. panicles larger and more effuse, capsules with longer and 
enser processes. —Deccan Peninsula, on the Ghats froin the Concan southwards. 
eylon, common, 
b 6. M. macrostachyus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. i. 963; 
ranches petioles leaves beneath and inflorescence shortly whitish or rusty- 
mentose, leaves large usually alternate long-petioled orbicular- or trian- 
T-cordate acuminate entire or remotely sinuate-toothed, base rounded 
?* transverse 5-nerved sometimes slightly peltate, racemes spiciform very 
ong, male branched at the base, male fl. small globose, fem. larger sub- 
cylindric cleft and 5-fid, capsules subglobose densely spinous, Sines con- 
galed by a thick soft stellate wool. Rottlera macrostachya, Miquel FI. 
^d. Bat, Suppl. 454. 
D Prrax ; King’s Collector. MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1381).— 
STRIB, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, 
