17, Tsbwia. ] 22. EUPH0RBIACE2R. [ 19. Mallotus. 



1-3 in a bract, pedicels jointed on a small bracteolate pednncle. Sep. 

 3 orbicnlar, reflexed in fl. St. «.. Ovary closely invested by the urceolate 

 5-toothed calyx, often 5-celled with as many large fimbriate stigmas 

 as cells. 



N.B.— The first few seedling leaves are alternate. 



18. Acalypha, L. 



A large germs containing several shrubs with copper- 

 coloured, or otherwise ornamental, leaves common in gardens. 



1. A. indica, L. 



A stiff erect herb or undershrub 18"-2£' with spreading long-petioled 

 rhomboid- ovate serrate leaves and very numerous axillary spikes with 

 foliaceoug bracts bearing green F. fl., the top of the spike ebracteate 

 with minute M . fl. 



Hazaribagh, near Chorparan, etc. Fl. Dec.-Jany. 



19, MaHohis, Lour. 



Erect trees or sarmentose or scandent large shrubs gene- 

 rally covered esp. on the leaves beneath with small peltate 

 glands or stellate nairs. L. 3-7-nerved at the base and with 

 strong cross nervules, sometimes peltate. Fls. dioecious, 

 rarely monoecious in spikes or racemes, the males clustered 

 on the rachis.. St. oc free, with two small globose or very short 

 antber cells adnate ta the frequently broad connective. Ovary 

 and capsule 2-3- (rarely 4-) celled. Styles entire. 



Small tree. L. peltate 7-9-nerved ]. Roxbiirghianus . 



Smal' tree. L. not poltate, base 3-nerved . . . . 2. philippinensis. 

 Large sarmentose or scandent shrub . . . . .3. repandu$. 



1. HL, Roxburg'Manus, Muell. Barui, & ; Dopsinga, 

 Mai 



A small tree softly pubescent with simple and stellate 

 hairs all over, with long petioled orbicnlar or broad-ovate 

 peltate sinuate -toothed leaves 4-7" diam. and terminal racemes 

 as long as the leaves. 



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