Mallotus.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE, (J. D. Hooker.) 437 
Male spikes 1-2 in., slender; flowers few in the very short rounded bracts; buds 
ovoid, +3; in. long; sepals 4; stamens 30-40, anther-cells oblong not separated at 
the top by a truncate connective (as in Lawi). Fem. racemes 4-6 in., slender; 
bracts as in the male ; flowers remote; sepals 6, lanceolate, glabrous ; ovary glandular ; 
style very short or 0.—I have not seen the capsule, which Wight describes and 
figures. The quite glabrous branchlets and 2-seriate tubercles of the cocci dis- 
tinguish this species. Heyne's authentically named specimens in Rottler's and 
Wallich's Herbaria prove that this, and not JM. stenanthus, is the Croton muricatus 
of Heyne. M. muricatus of Mueller (in DC. l.c. 972) is a mixture of the 
Ceylon M. Walkere, the Claoaylon muricatum of Wight, the Philippine Cuming 
1170 5., the Javan Zolling. 3804, and a plant cited from the Hookerian Herbarium as 
Falconer n. 1352 (of which latter I find no specimen in Herb. Hook.). Of all these 
Wight’s figure alone represents Heyne’s Croton muricatum. Beddome erroneously 
gives Wight as the author for Croton muricatum being put into Mallotus, for Wight 
refers it to Claowylon. Beddome, following Mueller, refers to his M. muricatus 
(which, as stated above, includes this and others) Baillon's Awenfeldia intermedia, 
which may be M. Walkere or stenanthus. 
27. M. Walkeree, Hook. f.; branchlets and spikes tomentose or 
pubescent and glandular, leaves opposite long- or short-petioled penni- 
nerved rhombic-ovate -obovate or -lanceolate obtusely acuminate or caudate 
sinuate-toothed minutely glandular beneath, base acute, nerves 6-10 pair, 
male racemes short, bracts large, flowers glandular, fem. racemes elongate, 
capsule tridymous glandular and clothed with long soft spines. M. murica- 
tus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 972 (the Ceylon plant only). Rottlera 
muricata, Thwaites Enum. 273 (excl. syn.). 
108) 9^ Walker, &c, ; Central Province, ascending to 4000 ft., Thwaites (C.P. 
A small tree, branches terete, branchlets compressed. Leaves 3-8 by 2-34 in., 
hardly coriaceous, pale greenish when dry, tip often broadly and obtusely cau- 
date, base very acute or cuneate, quite glabrous; petiole }-1 in.; stipules ovate- 
oblong or -lanceolate, pubescent. Male racemes stout or slender, 1-2 in. ; bracts 
broad, concave, often as long as the flowers; buds 45-3 in., ovoidly globose ; sepals 
3-4, tomentose; stamens about 30, anther-cells obloug not separated by a truncate 
qnnective. Fem, racemes slender, pubescent or pilose ; flowers few, distant; sepals 
3, lanceolate, and pedicels tomentose; ovary densely echinate ; style very short. 
miele d in. diam., yellowish from the copious glands; cocci puberulous, as are the 
es, 
Var. laxiflora; male racemes with capillary pedicels x; in. long.—Ceylon, 
Walker. 
28. M. stenanthus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 191, and in DC. 
Prodr, xy. ji, 972; nearly glabrous except the resinous and puberulous 
branchlets and inflorescence, leaves opposite very shortly petioled elliptic- 
or ovate-lanceolate obtusely acuminate or caudate entire or sinuate-toothed 
minutely glandular beneath penninerved, nerves 5-6 pair, racemes short, 
male buds ovoid, fem. narrowly oblong, capsule tridymous glandular an 
with scattered short conical tubercles. 
CANARA; at Tulliwally, Ritchie; Jellapore, Talbot. . 
Js "M 9 , _ 
A small tree, branches red-brown, branchlets compressed. Leaves 3-6 in, 
rather Coriaceous, tapering from the middle to both ends, pale greenish-ye low when 
dry, and shining, with 3-4 black spots above the acute base; nerves raised beneath, 
as are the cross.nervules and reticulations; petiole j-to } in, of young leaves 
lower oy Racemes 1-3 in., axillary and terminal, very slender Spahr newts 
TS clus ile: : . ; stamens 20; : - 
cells oblon tered, subsessile; buds 4, in. long; sepals 35 solitary in’ the bracts ; 
E tips separated by a broad connective. l 
Sepals 3, lanceolate, Capsule i in, diam. yellow from the glands, cocci rounded, 
