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Mallotus albus MuelL; F.B.I. v 429. LlII 5. An 

 evergreen tree with young parts densely covered with a 

 rusty or white tomentum. Leaves ovate, acute, very 

 obtuse almost horizontal at the base, with stalk inserted 

 J^ in. inside the margin, and basal nerves 5. Panicles 

 terminal. Female flowers % in. covered with short 

 soft spines which are thickly clothed in dense, white 

 tomentum. 



Pulneys at 6,500 feet just below Kodaikanal. Fyson 443. 

 Gen. Dist. Himalayas to Ceylon and Burma. 



Mallotus philippincnsis MuelU ; F.B.I. v 442, LIII 42. 

 Leaves 3 nerved at base, ovate acute. All young parts 

 covered with reddish hairs, ovary covered with crimson 

 glands, but not with spines, t. 501. 



Nilgiris : below Coonoor on the Ghat road at 5,000 feet. 

 Gen. Dist. From Kashmir to Singapore, Ceylon, China and Australia. 



MACARANGA. F.B.I. 135 lvi. 



Trees and shrubs. Leaves large with stalk inserted 

 inside the margin, and glands on the underside. 

 Flowers without petals, in axillary racemes* Stamens 

 in male one or two only. Capsule small, seeds globose. 



Species about 80, in the Old World tropics. 



Macaranga indica Wt.) F.B.I. v 446, LVI 15. A 

 large tree. Male flowers in the axils of short branches 

 (of the panicle) which end each in a large (% in.) flat 

 open gland, t. 502. Wight Ic. 1883. 



Nilgiris : in sholas at 6,ooo feet. Lamb's Rk. Rd., Coonoor, 

 etc. 



Gen. Dist. From Sikkim southwards. 



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See Vol. I p. 367. 



