Mallotus. | CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. 139 
The genus is generally feed over tropine Asia and Africa. Of the nine Australian 
Species four are als so more rless genera 
i the spec 
aE AAN nd for ie sea-urchin, Baillon pime the other name, but rias pot e for 
wha 
eoe (m (mal) fai arr gett ih A ar MRTE Capsules 
Leaves Soi Node Erpen terminal. Capsule 
processes long and soft. 
Tomentum of the plant soft and loose. Capsules very 
densely echinate with long crowded rt esses . 1. M.ricinoides. — - 
Tomentum close and white. Capsules echinate with fewer 
day p rol yr 8808. 
Racemes axillary. Capsule processes setiform 3. M. zar inso 
Author dalla’ centrally attached to a small connective. Caps 
omentose, without processes 
inal. 
Fio dome 
AA a or ovate-lanceolate, 3 to 6 in. long. Capsules 
RM) -celled. 
Leaves mostly alternate, fincas tomentose underneath. 
Capsules with a red to “i M. philippinensis. 
jones slieranie green ^s glabrouson on both sides, v without 
mall glands. nai tomentose . 5. M. angustifolius. 
6. M. polyadenus, 
Loaves s broadly ovate. rhomboidal. "Capsules. mostly 2-celled, 
he to: 7. M. repandus. 
Racemes or interrupted spikes simple, axillary at the base of 
e youn 
ge umi; rioa the transverse veinlets rene 
underneath 
Lead ovate and acute or ‘ovatelanceolate, ` white ander : 
eath, the veins fine . . . 9. M. discolor. 
ea 
M. nesophilus. 
i, = ricinoides, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 187, and in’ DC. 
Prod. xv. ii. 963. A tall ane or spreading tree, more or less clothed 
with a Salute often floccose tomentum, s wearing off from the 
leave 
as on the branches and inflorescence. Leaves xà! ovate or orbicular, 
acuminate, entire or slightly sinuate, either peltately attached near the 
base, or the petiole quite basal, 3 - 5- or 7- nerved, with 2 glands near - 
| : m 
ovary. Styles 3, tomentose outside, densely fringed ai labrous on 
the inner or upper surface. Capsules very densely covered with long 
