Mallotus.) CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE, (J. D. Hooker.) 443 
cineus, Vahl Symb. ii. 97. C. montanns, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 545; Wall. 
Cat. 7723 A. Č. distans, Wall. Cat. 7792 A in part, and B. C. cascaril- 
loides, Rauesch. ex Steud. Nomencl. i. 446.—Wall. Cat. 7844.— Rheede Hort. 
Mal. v. t. 21, 94. 
Throughout Troprcan INDIA, along the foot of the Himalaya from Kashmir 
eastwards, all over Bengal and Burma, Singapore and the Andaman Islands, and 
from Scind southwards to CEYLON. —DISTRIB. China, Malay Islands, Australia. 
A small evergreen tree, 25-30 ft.; branches rather slender. Leaves 3-5 in., 
variable in form, glabrous or nearly so above, base narrowed, acute or obtuse ; nerves 
4-7 pairs above the basal; petiole 1-2 in. Flowers in stiff spikes, small, sessile or 
subsessile, males clustered, fem. solitary. Capsules about 1-3 in. diam., covered with 
crimson powder. Seeds globose, smooth, black. 
DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
43. M. ? Caput-Meduse, Hook. f. ; a large tree (in Perak), branches 
petioles leaves beneath and racemes densely rusty-tomentose or villous, 
eaves 6-18 in. coriaceous oblong or elongate obovate-oblong obtuse base 
obtuse or subacute 2-glandular above penninerved, nerves 10-12 pairs strong 
beneath with strong cross-nervules and reticulate interspaces, petiole 2-1 in. 
stout, fem. racemes 1-1} in. very stout, flowers very shortly stoutly pedi- 
celled, sepals 5 ovate subacute, disk annular villous, ovary ovoid con- 
tracted into a short stout style with 3 recurved entire stigmas 3-4-celled 
densely clothed with close-set long rigid hairs, fruit 15-2 in. diam. globose 
Indehiscent densely clothed with long soft villous spines, pericarp thin 
crustaceous, seeds broad $ in. long dorsally compressed suborbicular, testa 
smooth crustaceous. . 
PERAK, King’s Collector. Matacca, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1426, 
1443, 1445). 
I am doubtful as to the genus of this fine plant. Maingay describes the tree as 
small, and hairs of the fruit as stinging, and the seeds as arillate. 
44, M. ? Kunstleri, King in Herb. Calcutt.; quite glabrous except 
the Inflorescence, leaves 8-12 in. alternate long petioled coriaceous penni- 
nerved elliptic-lanceolate acute or acuminate subserrate or serrate eglandular 
ase decurrent, male fl. in sessile bracteate clusters on the divaricating rigid 
ranches of a large spreading sessile panicle, buds lanceolate, sepals glu- 
maceous and broadly ovate coriaceous, bracts more or less subsilkily pubes- 
Cent, margins ciliate. 
Prrax, Scortechini, Kunstler (King’s Collector). 
A tree, 40-60 ft.; branchlets woody, pale. Leaves smooth, very pale green or 
Yellowish above when dry, with a very strong midrib, yellowish green beneath ; 
nerves 15-20 pairs, spreading, strong but slender, nervules faint reticulate ; petiole 
-3 in., strong but not thick. Panicles axillary, 6-10 in. long and as broad; rachis 
and branches slender but very stiff, finely but not stellately pubescent, at length 
glabrate ; clusters of flowers rather distant, 4 in. diam., 4-6 fld. ; buds yọ in. long, 
me as long as the bracts, rigid, acute, pale brown; stamens 20-30, filaments 
gender, anthers didymous, cells usually separated by the thick connective.—A very 
istinct and handsome plant, of a totally different habit from any Mallotus, and which 
fan hardly doubt is generically distinct ; and if so, Dr. King proposes the name 
"nstlera glumacea, after his collector who has procured so many new and interesting 
Plants in Perak, 
lon M. 2 Vernicosus, Hook. f; quite glabrous, leaves alternate 
ong petioled rigidly coriaceous elliptic-ovate obtusely acuminate highly 
Polished above eglandular beneath, penni- and obscurely tripli-nerved, male 
Tacemes or panicles axillary solitary and in pairs ebracteate, flowers long 
Pedicelled, buds globose, sepals 4, stamens 30-40, connective narrow. 
