444. CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Mallotus. 
SINGAPORE, Botanical Garden, Cantley. . . . 
Branches stout, woody, terete, quite smooth, brown. Leaves 3-43 in., dull olive- 
green when dry above and brilliantly polished as if varnished, margin thin with a 
broad yellow border, base acute or rounded, nerves 6-8 pair including the intra- 
marginal basal pair, strong beneath, cross-nervules slender ; petiole 1-1} in., slender, 
terete, rigid. Male racemes stout, about as long as the leaves or longer, sometimes 
paniculately branched ; pedicels 4—4 in. long, stout; buds j in. diam.; sepals coria- 
ceous.—A remarkable plant, quite unlike any species of Mallotus known to me. 
The specimen bears a ticket inscribed Kaya Karangi, but it does not appear whether 
this is the name of a place or of the plant. 
M. MorvccaNvus, Linn.; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 958, is an Amboyna 
species ( Wall. Cat. 7827 B in part), cultivated in the Calcutta Bot. Garden. Bed- 
dome (Forester’s Man.) gives S. Arcot as a locality for it, but without authority. 
55. CLEIDION, Blume. 
Glabrous trees. Leaves alternate, usually sinuate-toothed, penninerved. 
Flowers small, moncecious or dicecious; males in long axillary racemes ; 
fem. 1-2 on a long axillary peduncle. Mate rr. Calyx globose, splitting 
` into 3-4 valvate segments. Stamens over 20, in a globose mass on a conical 
receptacle; filaments free; anthers dorsifixed, 4-celled, or the 2 cells trans- ` 
versely didymous on the margins of a broad connective. Pistillode 0. 
Fem. FL. Sepals 3-5, imbricate. Ovary 2-3-celled; styles 2-3-fid, united 
below, arms long filiform; cells l-ovuled. Capsule of 1-3 2-valved cocci 
Seeds subglobose, testa coriaceous, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat.— 
Species about 13, tropical. 
1. C. javanicum, Blume Bijd. 613; leaves long-petioled elliptic, to 
oblong or elliptic-lanceolate acute or acuminate sinuate-toothed or entire, 
male tl. racemose on slender pedicels, fruit tridymous cocci globose smooth. 
Muell. Arg.in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 987; Thwaites Enum. 272; Kurz For. FI. 
390; Beddome Sylv. Madr. t. 272; Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. t. 9, f. 3-0. 
Lasiostyles salicifolia, Presl Bot. Bemerk. 149. Rottlera urandra, Dalz. 1? 
Hook. Journ, Bot. ii. (1851) 229; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 230.— Wall. 
Cat. 7718, A, B, C, 7742, 7753, 7759 A. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 2-4000 ft., and KHasrA Mrs. to MUNNIPORE, BURMA, 
TENASSERIM, PENANG and the ANDAMAN ISLANDS ; and from the Conoan to TRA- 
VANCORE. CEYLON; Central Province.—DrsTRIB. Java. 
An evergreen tree. Leaves 4-8 by 14-43 in., coriaceous, green when dry, base 
acute, nerves 6-10 pair; petiole 1-3 in., slender. Racemes 3-8 in., pubescent OT 
almost glabrous; bracts minute; male fl. } in. diam., sessile and pedicelled ; fem. 
solitary on long thickened pedicels; sepals minute ; ovary 3-lobed, style and stigmas 
3 in. long. Capsule 1-1} in. diam., on a peduncle 2-4 in. long. Seeds j- in. diam., 
globose, smooth, mottled or not. 
2. C. nitidum, Tw. ex Kurz For. Fl. ii. 391; leaves very shortly 
petioled broadly to elliptically lanceolate acuminate at both ends sinuate- 
toothed above the middle, male fl. sessile in small clusters on a long slender 
spike. Mallotus nitidus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 979. 
SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLANDS, rare, Kurz. CEYLON, Gardner, Walker, &c. d 
A small evergreen tree, Leaves 2-3) in., thinly coriaceous, brownish when m 
glossy; petiole j-3 in. Spike equalling or exceeding the leaves. Caly» glabro 
globose in bud.—An imperfectly known plant, of which I have seen no Andama 
lsland specimens, and of which the description is taken from Kurz. I have, howo p 
a Ceylon Cleidion collected by Gardner, in female flower, that agrees with paler 
deseription; the leaves are elliptic or obovate-oblong, dark brown above, 
