110 EUPHORBIACE2. [ TREWIA. 
Ovary woolly ; styles 3-2 in. long, yellow. Fruit almost woody, 
globose, 1-14 in. in diam. Seeds smooth and polished, dark-brown. 
Ravines and damp places in the forests of Dehra Dun and Saharanpur, 
extending eastwards along the Sub-Himalayan forest tracts of 
Rohilkhand, N. Oudh and Gorakhpur. The tree is leafless from 
Jan. to March, the new leaves appear during March and April, and 
the flowers between Feb. and April, and the fruit ripens during the 
cold season. DistrRrB.: Kumaon, Assam and the Khasia Hills, and 
southwards throughout the hotter parts of India and in Ceylon, 
extending to Burma and to the Malay Pen, and Islands. Brandis 
states that this tree, reproduces abundantly from root-suckers. The 
soft white wood is used for making drums. 
17. MALLOTUS, Lour.; FI]. Brit. Ind. v, 427. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate, entire toothed 
or 3-lobed, penniveined or 3-7-nerved, sometimes peltate, often 
gland-dotted beneath and sometimes with glandular areas at the 
base on the lower surface. Flowers small, dicecious or moncecious, 
apetalous, arranged in axillary or terminal simple or branched 
spikes or racemes ; males fascicled, females solitary in the bracts. 
Mate flowers: Calyx globose or ovoid, 3-5-partite, lobes valvate. 
Disk none. Stamens many, crowded on the flat or convex recep- 
tacle, filaments free, anthers small, dorsifixed ; the cells globose 
or shortly oblong, parallel, adnate to the wide connective, often 
distinct. Pistillode none or very minute. Ferm. flowers: 
Calyx spathaceous or 3-6-lobed or-partite. Disk none or small ; 
styles free or connate below, spreading or recurved above, entire 
plumose or papillose, ovules solitary in each cell. Fruit a capsule 
of 2-3 (rarely 4) 2-valved tubercled echinate paleaceous or smooth 
cocci. Seeds ovoid oblong or globose, testa crustaceous, albumen 
fleshy, cotyledons broad and flat.—Species 70-80, in tropical regions 
of the Old World. 
M. phiippinensis, Vell. Arg. in Linnea xxiv, 196; Brand. 
For. Fl. 444 ; Ind. Trees 590 ; F. B. I. v, 442 ; Watt E..D.; Comm. 
Prod. Ind. 755 ; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2) 353 ; Gamble Man, 619 ; 
Collett Fl. Siml. 453 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 950; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 
615. Rottlera tinctoria, Roxb. ; Fl. Ind. iii, 827 ; Royle Ill. 329.— 
Vern Kamela, raini (Dehra Dun), reoni (Bundelkhand), rohni (Oudh), 
senduria (Merwara). 
