430 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEX, (J. D. Hooker) [Mallotus. 
A smalltree; branchesstout. Leaves rather coriaceous, 3-6 in. diam., eglandu lar, 
young clothed on both surfaces thickly with rusty pubescence ; nerves very strong 
beneath ; petiole 4-8 in., stout. Spikes axillary; male 8-16 in., rather slender ; 
flowers subsessile, 1 in. diam.; stamens very numerous; fem. with occasionally a few 
male flowers, calyx 3 in. long, shortly tubular. Fruiting raceme sometimes 18 in. 
long. Capsule }-2 in. diam., obscurely trigonous. Seeds in Bornean specimens sub- 
globose, 4 in. long, smooth ; in Malaccan (immature) smaller, black, opaque, as in M. 
barbatus, 
7. M. ricinoides, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 189, and in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 963 ; young parts clothed with floccose fugacious tomentum, 
leaves alternate long-petioled ovate to orbiéular-ovate cordate or peltate 
entire or remotely denticulate, glabrous above tomentose beneath, flowers 
small tomentose in simple or compound axillary and terminal spikes, bracts 
minute, fem. calyx 4—5-cleft, ovary villons echinate, capsule 3—4-coccous size 
of a cherry densely clothed with stellately scurfy long soft subulate bristles, 
seeds globose black slightly tubercled. “Kurz For. Fl. ii. 382. Rottlera 
ricinoides, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. 33, t. 9, f. 29 A. R. Zippelii, Hassk. 
Hort. Bogor. 238. Adisca Zippelii, Blume Bijd. 611. R. peltata, Miguel 
Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 395 (not Roxb.). Mappa Zippelii, Zoll. & Morr. Verz. 
17. Adelia barbata, Blanco Fl. Filip. Ed. 2, 561. A. Bernardia, Ed. 1, 
814. Croton ricinoides, Pers. Encheir. à. 586. C. mollissima, G eisel. 
Monog. Crot. 73. Crozophora mollissima, Spreng. Syst. iii. 851. 
UPPER TENASSERIM, Kurz.—DrISTRIB. China, Philippines. 
An evergreen shrub. Leaves 5-6 in. long and broad, thickly membranous, base 
5-nerved ; petiole 2-4 in., scurfily tomentose.—I have seen no Tenasserim specimens 
of this species, which is readily distinguished by the dense clothing of soft spines on 
the capsule. 
8. M. cochinchinensis, Lour. Fl. Coch. 635; branches leaves 
beneath and inflorescence appressedly white- or rusty-tomentose, leaves 
alternate orbicular or deltoidly ovate caudate-acuminate entire or 3-lobed, 
base usually cuneate 5-nerved, nerves peltate, flowers in effuse slender 
panicles, males globose, fem. calyx 3-4-partite, capsule 3-coccous clothed 
densely with long white squarrose tomentose processes. M. paniculatus, 
Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 189, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 965; Kurz 
For. Fl. ii. 383. Rottlera paniculata, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. 93; Benth. 
Fl. Hongk. 307; Wall. Cat. 7818. Croton paniculatus, Lamk. Encycl. n 
207. Echinus trisuleus, Lour. L c. 633 (excl. syn.). Mappa cochinchinensis, 
Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 878. "Trewia tricuspid Lo ini! Sp. PL iv. irit 
Wall. Cat. 78917 ricuspidata, Wi lp 
Prov and TrwassenIM, Wallich, Helfer, &c. PENANG, PERAK, SINGAPORE 
and Maracca, Wallich, &c.—DrisTRIB. Malay Islands, China. 
A tree much resembling in habit M. aléus, but branches more slender, leaves 
smaller, nerves peltate, more membranous with longer points and usually a cuneate 
base, panicles much more slender, flower and fruit smaller, fem. calyx 3—4-partite, 
and capsule squarrose with long processes.—I maintain Loureiro's name of cochin- 
chinensis for this species, which is the monotype of his genus, and should never have 
been superseded. From Loureiro’s description I doubt his Echinus sulcatus being 
the same plant ; but I assume that Mueller, whom I follow, had good reasons for 80 
disposing of it. 
bi Leaves elliptic, oblong, or obovate-oblong, tripli- or penni-nerved. 
Spikes or racemes usually simple and shorter than the leaves (longer ™ 
M. leptostachyus and a few others). 
