Maliotus.'] Euphorbiace^. 65 



cocca, Roxb. ; Thw. Enum. 272. Muell. Arg. in DC. 1. c. 965. C. P. 

 2118). 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 429. Wight, Ic. t. 1873 {Rottlera peltata). 



A tree, 30-40 ft. ; branchlets rather stout ; bark yellowish 

 grey, smooth; young parts rough with brownish stellate hairs; 

 1. numerous, variable, 4-6 in., oblong-oval, often somewhat 

 rhomboidal, sometimes broader than long, narrowed to a cor- 

 date or rounded base, or slightly amplexicaul, acute, usually 

 entire, but sometimes with larger teeth, rather thin, glabrous 

 (when mature), dark green above, silvery white with a fine 

 pellicle of minute scales beneath ; petiole 3-4 in,, slender, 

 thickened at both ends, finely scaly, set with a few irregular 

 glands and a pair of larger circular ones at the summit ; 

 stip. \ in., subulate, stellate hairy ; spikes panicled, stellate- 

 pubescent, terminal fl. male in distant clusters, fem. very 

 shortly stalked, crowded; sep. densely stellate - pubescent ; 

 styles short, plumose ; capsule under \ in., thickly set with 

 soft woolly spines, capped with black persistent styles ; seeds 

 black. 



Moist low country to 2000 ft.; very common. 



Fl. April, May. 



E. Bengal, S. India, Burma. 



The Fl. B. Ind. distinguishes the S. Indian and Ceylon plant as var. 

 occidentalism and as having larger and more effuse fem. panicles and 

 ■ capsules, with longer denser spines. 



2. m. eriocarpus, Muell. Arg. in Linn, xxxiv. 185 (1865). 

 Rottlera erioaifpa^ Thw. Enum. 273. Muell. Arg. in DC. 1. c. 959. 

 ■C. P. 21 12. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 432. 



A shrub ; branches slender, covered with fulvous-stellate 

 pubescence, young parts densely so ; 1. 2-6 in., variable in 

 form, rhomboid-ovate, ovate, or ovate-oblong, rounded at 

 base, more or less acuminate acute or obtuse, irregularly 

 and faintly dentate, softly and finely stellate-pubescent on 

 both surfaces, veins prominent beneath ; fl. on short ped , in 

 clusters on axillary spicate racemes shorter than 1., stellate- 

 tomentose, buds pointed ; sep. 3, recurved, densely stellate- 

 pubescent ; ov. densely tomentose, with a ring of abortive 

 stam. round base, styles very hairy ; capsule over h in., cocci 

 nearly distinct (often only 2), thickly covered with long very 

 hairy processes. 



Dry region ; rather common. Anuradhapura, abundant ; Dambulla; 

 Uma-oya. Fl. July ; reddish. 



Endemic. 



AT. moliiccanus^ Muell. Arg. {Croton iiioliiccanits, L. in part), does not 

 ■occur in Ceylon (see under Givotid). 



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