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partite. Petals 0. Disk oi* small. Ovary 2-4-celled ; ovule 1 in 

 each cell ; styles free or connate below, spreading or recurved above, 

 entire, plumose or papillose. Fruit a capsule of 2-3 (rarely 4) 2-valved 

 tuberculate, ecbinate paleaceous or smooth cocci. Seeds ovoid, oblong 

 or globose; testa erustaceous ; albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat. — 

 DiSTRiB. Tropics of the Old AVorld ; species about 70. 



Trees ; leaves mostly alternate. 



Capsules 3-4-eoccous, clothed with long soft villous 



spines , 1. M. albiis. 



Capsules 3-coccons, covered with a red resinous powder... 2. M. phUippinensis. 

 Erect shrubs ; leaves opposite. 



Capsules 3-coccous, echinate with short stout conical 



spines 3. M. stcnanthus. 



Capsules 3-4-coccous, densely clothed with long slender 



villous filaments often | in. long 4. M. Lawii. 



A straggling or climbing slirub ; leaves alternate ; capsules 



2-coccous, stellately fulvous-tomentose 5. M. repandus. 



1. Mallotus albus, Mmll. Arg. in Liimcea, v. 34 (1805) p. 188. 

 A moderatt^-sizt'd tree, sometimes reaching 50 ft. high ; branchlets, 

 petioles, underside of leaves and inflorescence densely clothed \Aith grey 

 or tawny stellate tomentum. Leaves 4-8 in. long and often as broad as 

 long, very variable, mostly alternate, broadly ovate or orbicular or 

 triangular-ovate, acuminate, entire or with shallow lobes, dark-green 

 above, white-tonientose beneath, base narrowly peltate, rounded, trun- 

 cate or shallowly cordate, 2-glandular, usually 5-nerved; petioles 3-8 in. 

 long. Flowers dioecious, in axillary and terminal panicles, the males 

 in distant clusters, the females shortly pedicellate, crowded. Male 

 FLOWERS : Buds globose, g in. in diam. Sepals usually 4, elliptic- 

 lanceolate, acute, ^ in. long, scurfily tomentose. Stamens very 

 numerous: filaments slender ; anther-cells parallel. Female flowers: 

 Calyx hemispheric, ^ in. long, 4-5-lobecl, the sepals rather thicker than 

 in the male. Ovary densely clothed with stellate hairs ; styles papillose, 

 almost plumose. Capsules loculicidally 4-valved, g in. in diam., globose, 

 echinate with soft woolly spines, white-tomentose. Seeds 4 by ^ in., 

 rounded on the back, angular on the face, nearly black. Fl. B. I. v. 5, 

 p. 429 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 65 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 315 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 372 ; Prain, Beng. PI. 

 p. 949 ; "Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 5, p. 114. Rottlera peltata, Wight, 

 Icon. v. 5 (1852) p. 21, t. 1873 (by error fuUata). R. mappoidcs, Dalz. 

 in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 3 (1851) p. 122; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 230.— 

 Flowers : Sept. -Dec. This is the var. occidentaJis of Hook. f. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 5, p. 429. 



KoNKAN : moist forests, Talbot. S. M. Country : Parva Ghat, Stocks !, Castlerock, 

 Kanitkarl, Woodrow \ Daski, 3 miles from Castlerock, Bhival Kanaka: moist 

 forests, Talbot; Gatpraba River, Dalzelll, near Yellapur, Talbot, 42!; Talaveri, 

 Stocks ! — DiSTRiB. India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



2. Mallotus philippinensis, Maell, Anj. in Limicea, v. 34 (1865) 

 p. 196. A small much-branched tree ; branchlets, young leaves, and 

 inflorescence tawny- or rusty-pubescent. Leaves alternate, variable, 

 3-6 by lj-3 in., ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire or sliglitly 

 toothed, glabrous above, pubi^scent and with numerous orbicular red 

 glands beneath, reticulately veined, base rounded or acute, strongly 



