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4. Mallotus Lawii, Muell. Arg. in Linncm, v. 34 (1865) p. 192. 

 A small sbrub ; brauchlets, petioles, and inflorescence pubescent. 

 Leaves 4-8 by 1|^-2| in., opposite, penninei-ved, elliptic-lanceolate, 

 or oblong-lanceolate, or sometimes oblanceolate, obtuse, acuminate, 

 repand-dentate, glabrous or nearly so, clotbed beneatb witli minute 

 yellow resinous glands, base usually acute ; nerves 5-8 pairs witli 

 reticulate venation between ; petioles ^-| in. long. Flowers in slender 

 racemes sborter tbau tbe leaves. Male flowers numerous, in ratber 

 distant fascicles along the rhachis, sessile or shortly pedicellate ; buds 

 globose, shortly pointed. Sepals 3-4, broadly ovate, acute, villous, 

 g-^ in. long. Stamens very numerous, 50 or more; fdaments short. 

 Female elowees : Eacemes few-flowered ; flowers pedicellate, 1 to 

 each bract ; bracts ovate, acute, J^ ^^- long. Calyx spathaceous, \ in. 

 long, splitting into about G lanceolate unequal villous segments. Styles 

 shortly connate at the base, divided above into spreading plumose lobes. 

 Capsules I ill. in diam., 3-4-coccous, densely clothed with long slender 

 villous filaments which are sometimes ^ in. long. Seeds suhglobose, 

 smooth, polished. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 438 ; Bedd.' For. Man. in Flor. 

 Sylvat. p. ccix ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 316 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 372. Malhtus aureo-jmiictatns, Muell. Arg. 

 in DC. Prodr. v. 15 (1SG4) p. 973 ; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. 

 p. ccix. Kotthra aitreo-punctata, Ualz. in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 3 (1851) 

 p. 122 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 230.— Flowers : Oct.-Jan. 



Konkan: S^oc/csl, Law I; Matheran, Cooke I, IVoodrowl, H. M. Birdwnod; Miva- 

 dongei- near Pen, I)alzdl\; evergreen forests, Talhot. Deccan : KbancTala, Wood- 

 row ! S. M. Country : Loiula, Woodrow ! Kanaka : N. Kanara, Woodrow ; evergreen 

 forests near the Devimana and Nilkund Glu'its, Talhot . — Distrib. India (W. Penin- 

 sula), apparently endemic. 



5. Mallotus repandus, Muell. Arg. in Linncm, v. 34 (1865) p. 197. 

 A large straggling or climbing dioecious shrub ; stem fluted, white, 

 scaly, rough at the base, covered sparingly with large spines 1-3 in. 

 long, single or 3-4 from a tubercle {Talbot) ; brauchlets, petioles, 

 underside of the leaves, and inflorescence with tawny stellate tonientum. 

 Leaves alternate, 2-3i by l|--3 in., broadly deltoid-ovate or rhomboid-ovate, 

 acuminate, entire or sinuate-toothed, with pale scattered glands beneatb, 

 base truncate or ciuieate, 3-nerved ; petioles 1-1^ in. long. Male 

 ELOWERS pedicellate, in paniculate racemes 4-G in. long ; bracts ^ in. 

 long, linear-lanceolate, hairy ; buds globosely ovoid, fulvous-pubescent. 

 Calyx divided to the base ; sepals 5, ovate, acute, deflexed, J—i in. long. 

 Stamens numerous, 50-60; filaments J„ in. long, filiform; anther-cells 

 of the inner stamens often quite separate, attached at diiferent levels of 

 the connective. Female flowers with rather long pedicels, in simple 

 or branched racemes ; bracts as in the male. Calyx not divided quite 

 to the base ; tube short, globose, about ^L in. long ; segments 4, linear- 

 lanceolate, ^ in. long. Styles 2, plumose, spreading, very shortly 

 connate below. Capsules didynious, stellately fulvous-tomentose, \ in. 

 across. Seeds globose, ^-i in. in diam., black. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 442; 

 Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. p. ccx ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 67; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 316; Praiu, Beng. PI. p. 949. Eottlera 

 dicocca, Eoxb. Fl. Tnd. v. 3, p. 829 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 230.— Flowers : 

 Sept.-Oct. 



