294 A FLORA OF MANILA 
16. MALLOTUS Loureiro 
Shrubs or trees with opposite or alternate, entire, toothed, or lobed, 
8- to 7-plinerved or penninerved leaves, sometimes peltate, often gland- 
dotted on the lower surface and with glandular areas near the base on 
the upper surface. Flowers small, apetalous, monoecious or dioecious, 
in simple or panicled spikes or racemes, the males clustered, the females 
solitary. Male flowers: Calyx globose or ovoid, valvately 3- to 5-cleft. 
Stamens 20 to many, on a central receptacle; filaments free; anthers small, 
2-celled. Female flowers: Calyx spathe-like or valvately 3- to 6-lobed. 
Ovary 2- to 4-celled; styles various; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule of 
two or three, 2-valved, smooth, tubercled, or spinous cocci. (Greek 
“woolly,” from the soft pubescence of some species.) 
Species about 80 in the tropics of the Old World, about 20 in the 
Philippines. 
1. Capsules unarmed; leaves alternate. 
2. Leaves orbicular-ovate, angularly repand or toothed, the younger 
ones deeply 8- to 5-lobed; capsules brown-pubescent. 
1. M. moluccanus . 
2. Leaves oblong-ovate, entire or subentire; capsules covered with a 
POU PO WOOT sss hehe ei ead cena eee 2. M. philippensis 
1. Capsules pubescent and armed with scattered, short, spine-like processes; 
leswyes.opposibed Astro Ma see Be ees ee Ales 3. M. papillaris 
1. M. moluccanus (L.) Muell.-Arg. Alim (Tag.). 
A shrub or small tree 4 to 10 m high, more or less finely stellate- 
pubescent and furfuraceous. Leaves large, orbicular-ovate, 10 to 25 cm 
long, acuminate, base cordate, some often deeply 3- to 5-lobed, others 
coarsely angular-toothed or repand. Panicles in the upper axils, up to 
to 20 cm long. Flowers greenish-yellow, the males fascicled along the 
branches of the inflorescence, the sepals refiexed at flowering time, elliptic- 
lanceolate, about 7 mm long. Capsule about 7 mm long and wide, smooth, 
stellate-pubescent at least when young, of 2 or 3 dehiscent cocci. (Fl. 
Filip. pl. 218.) 
In thickets and waste places, occasionally also in gardens, fl. all the 
year; throughout the Philippines. Malaya. 
2. M. philippensis (Lam.) Muell.-Arg. Banato (Tag.). 
A tree 4 to 10 m high, the branchlets, young leaves, and inflorescence 
brown-pubescent. Leaves alternate, oblong-ovate, entire or sinuate- 
toothed, acuminate, 7 to 16 cm long, base rounded, 3-nerved, with 2 glands 
on the upper surface which is glabrous, the lower surface somewhat 
glaucous, puberulent, with numerous small, scattered, crimson glands. In- 
florescence axillary. Male spikes solitary or fascicled, 5 to 8 cm long, 
densely many-flowered, the flowers about 3 mm in diameter, the anthers 
with crimson glands. Female racemes solitary, 3 to 7 cm long. Ovary 
and styles with crimson glands. Fruit subglobose, 6 to 8 mm in diameter, 
unarmed, densely covered a red or crimson powder. 
In thickets San Juan del Monte, fl. March-April; widely distributed in 
the Philippines. India to southern China, through Malaya to Australia. 
3. M. papillaris (Blanco) Merr. 
An erect shrub 2 to 3 m high, all parts more or less densely and 
softly pubescent with short stellate hairs. Leaves opposite, orbicular- 
