Mallotus. | CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 433 
14. M. subpeltatus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 189, and in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 968 ; nearly glabrous, leaves alternate long petioled with very 
long caudate tips puberulous beneath, base rounded or minutely cordate 
3-plinerved, male fl. in sessile fascicles on the branches, fem. sessile axillary, 
calyx 5-partite, styles very long and slender, capsule clothed with very long 
Squarrose tomentose processes. Adisca subpeltata, Blume Bid. 610. 
Rottlera subpeltata, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb.433; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. 
i n. 994. R. rhynchophylla, Miquel l. c. Suppl. 454. Mappa acumi- 
natissima, Zipp. ez Spanoghe in Linnea xv. 349.— Wall. Cat. 7755. 
PENANG, Porter. PERAK, Ki ing’s Collector, Scortechini. Mauacoa, Griffith 
(Kew Distrib. 4759), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1410).—DISTRIB. Sumatra, Java. . 
Branches terete, very smooth, tips puberulous. Leaves 6-12 by 2—4 in., thin, 
greenish when dry, nerves 3-5 pair above the basal and cross-nervules strong and 
puberulous beneath ; petiole 3-5 in., slender; stipules lanceolate. Male fl. shortly 
pedicelled, globose, 4 in. diam.; sepals 4, broad, densely pubescent; stamens very 
numerous, connective rather broad, not produced. Fem. fl. subsessile, 4 in. diam. ; 
sepals 6, lanceolate pubescent on both surfaces, ovary clothed with hispid spines, styles 
+ in. long, flexuous. Capsule depressed, 1 in. diam., 3-lobed; spinous processes 
rather rigid, j in. long. Seeds } in. diam., globose, smooth.— Mueller describes the 
leaves as subpeltate, but I should not so call them. 
_ 15. M. Griffithianus, Hook. f. ; glabrous except the hispidulous 
viscidly glandular inflorescence, leaves opposite and alternate long-petioled 
euptriplinerved oblong or elliptic-oblong cuspidately acuminate quite entire 
eglandular beneath, racemes leaf-opposed, males of panicled spikes, fem. 
simple, fem. sepals 6-9 very irregular lanceolate, ovary hispid and clothed 
with stipitate capitate glands, styles 3 sessile long slender, capsule hispid 
clothed | with long glandular viscid and hirtellous spines. Diplochlamys 
Ipa fäthianus, Muell. Arg. in Flora xlvii. (1864) 539, and in DC. Prodr. xv. n. 
PERAK; at Larut, King’s Collector. Maracoa, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4961) 
and Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1432 and 1450). |. 
A shrub (in Perak) 6-8 ft. ; branches woody, terete, smooth or viscidly glandular ; 
nodes swollen. Leaves 6-10 by 21-44 in., coriaceous, greenish when dry, quite 
glabrous, or with a few bristles on the midrib beneath, base broad and rounded or 
narrowed and obtuse 2-glandular and minutely peltate; nerves 10-12 pair, basal 
Opposite often obscure, short and intramarginal, cross-nervules rather distant ; 
petiole 13-3 in., rigid, terete, swollen at the top. Male panicles 4-5 in., flowers } in. 
diam. ; bracts acute, buds globose, pubescent; sepals 3, receptacle conoid; stamens 
Tul many, anthers didymous, connective swollen at the back, inconspicuous in front. 
em. fl. pedicelled ; pedicel hispid with very long bristles; perianth $i in. diam. ; 
Sepals lanceolate, very unequal and unequally inserted, hispidulous ; ovary with a 
ring of spreading hairs at its base on the receptacle ; styles subulate, hispid and 
rugulose ; Stipitate globose glands? of ovary quite smooth. Capsule 3-coccous, about 
in. diam., cocci woody. 
16. M. Wrayi, King mss.: Quite labrous, leaves opposite very long- 
Petioled triple-neivel coriaceous elliptic. or oblong-lanceolate cuspidately 
caudate quite entire obscurely glandular beneath base acute 2-glandular, 
yle short stout, capsule tridymous appressedly tomentose and echinate with 
Short tomentose spines. 
PERAK; at Larut, Wray, King’s Collector. oo . 
6-10 tree, 60-80 ft.; branches woody, terete, smooth. .Leares in distant pairs, 
abo by 2-24 in., thinly coriaceous, drying green, paler beneath; nerves 5-6 pair 
ve the submarginal basal, cross-nervules rather distant strong; petiole 2-5 in., 
nder, firm, swollen at the base and top. Fem. fruiting racemes axillary, shorter 
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