434. CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) | Mallotus. 
than the petiole, hoary with deciduous stellate pubescence. — Capsule 1 in. diam., 
yellow, carpels hemispheric, spines in. long. Seeds 3 in. diam., globose, smooth, 
mottled. 
17. M. lancifolius, Hook. f.; glabrous except the stellately tomen- 
tose buds and racemes, leaves thinly coriaceous alternate long-petioled tri- 
plinerved lanceolate acuminate quite entire eglandular beneath, racemes 
very slender shorter than the leaves, male clusters few-fld., bracts longer 
than the globosely ovoid rusty-tomentose buds, style very short, capsule 
tridymous hoary glandular and with a few short slender spikes. 
PENANG; on Government Hill, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1451), Curtis. 
A tree, about 20 ft.; branches slender, woody ; tips of branchlets and racemes 
stellately tomentose. Leaves 5-9 by 14-23 in., brown beneath when dry, baro 
eglandular acute or rounded ; nerves 3-5 pair above the basal which do not reac 
the middle, very slanting, strong beneath, i cross-nervules few; petiole 1-23 nal 
slender, stif; stipules ovate-lanceolate. Racemes 1-1} in., axillary, fem. with ^ e 
fl. below, bracts lanceolate; buds of male 4; in.; sepals 3, ovate; stamens 50-60, — 
anther-cells subglobose, connective rather narrow. Capsule $ in. diam.; cocci 
globose, thinly crustaceous, epicarp not separating. Seeds globose, smooth. 
18. M. decipiens, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 194, and 1n De. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 977; branchlets racemes and often leaves beneath softly 
tomentose rarely glabrate, leaves opposite shortly petioled tripli- and perked 
nerved subrhombic-ovate oblong or obovate obtusely caudate repand-toot 
minutely glandular beneath, racemes elongate, stamens surrounding ^. 
minute pistillode, capsule small 3-dymous pubescent glandular and sparse Y 
tubercled. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 381. “Coelodiscus eriocarpoides, Kurz l. c. 992. 
— Wall. Cat. 7725 and 8009. 
Burma; at Attran, Wallich; Moulmein, Parish. n 
A shrub; branches woody, branchlets and petioles often velvety. Leaves 1 
unequal pairs, larger 5-10 by 2-5 in., smaller not half that size, rather coriaceous, 
greenish when dry, base rounded broad or narrow, often 2-glandular, glabrous above 
velvety pubescent beneath or glabrate or quite glabrous; nerves 6-8 pair above t 
basal which are intramarginal ; petiole 1—2 in., stout; stipules oblong, pubescent, 
caducous. Male racemes 3-6 in.; bracts minute; flowers subsessile, $ in. diary , 
sepals 3, broadly lanceolate, membranous; stamens 20-40, connective small; pisti ) 
lode minute, columnar. Fem. racemes much stouter; pedicels very short, hirsute ; 
sepals 3—4, like the males; ovary hirsute and tubercled ; style very short; stigini 
plumose, short. Capsule 3 in. diam.—A specimen in Griffith's Herbarium from ti 
Calcutta Bot. Garden, marked “ Croton urophyllum," has leaves glabrous beneath. 
Kurz had no specimens of M. decipiens, the description of which he takes froni 
Mueller. Of his Cælodiscus eriocarpoides he had seen no fem. flower or fruit, 9U 
as he has attached this name to Parish's specimen of M, decipiens in the Calcutta 
Herbarium, I regard it as a synonym of the latter plant. 
19. M. Wallichianus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 196, and m 
DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 980; branchlets and racemes scurfily pubescent, leave 
long-petioled alternate and opposite elliptic-oblong obtuse or acumina ° 
crenate-serrate mature glabrous triple-nerved, racemes spiciform slen ? 
longer than the leaves, male fl. globose apiculate. M. eriocarpoides, Muett. 
Arg. in DC. Prodr. l. c. 959. Croton castaneifolium, Wall. Cat. 7760— 
Croton, Wall. Cat. 7728. 
Pecu; at Rangoon, M*Clelland. Attran River, Wallich, TExAssERIM, Helfer 
(Kew Distrib. 4963). MERGUI, Griffith. 
Branches woody, branchlets slender. Leaves 4-6 in., old coriaceous and P 
when dry, and quite glabrous, densely most minutely glandular beneath, tip 80 
