140 CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. [ Mallotus. 
jin. or more in diameter.—Croton ricinoides, Pers. y . ii. 586; 
C. mollissimus, eise : Crot. Monogr. 73; Echinus mollissimus, Baill. 
Adans. vi. 316; Mallotus pycnostachys, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 138, and 
M. Waa Aie of " Muell. Le. 189, and numerous other synonyms quoted 
by cieli 
Queen kingham Bay, Dallachy; Mount Elliott, s aus —Extends 
also over the E asters Per. ce to the Philippines and South Chin 
Persoon's and Geiseler's specific names both bear the same date, 1807. Mueller Arg. 
of Pera as former under ihe vimpain, that it was a year older , but 1806 is the date 
2. M. paniculatus, Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 189, and in DC. 
Prod. xv. ii. 965. A tall dard au. r small tree, the Wires 
inflorescence and underside of the leaves white iie ferruginous with a 
short close stellate sometimes almost scal Leaves on long 
pe boi 
or obscurely si sinuate or rarely lobed, not peltate, 
dicecious, in terminal broadly pyramidal oue s of Gin. to 1ft., the 
males clustered along the branches, the HR soley, within each 
bract, all on very short e Male Mire nth-segments about 1 line 
long. nthers small, wit road connective as i ricinoides. 
emale perianth rather ‘oho than the male, usually 5-lobed with 
acute or acuminate lobes. Styles much shorter than in M. ricinoides. 
Capsule 3-celled, 3 to 4 lines diameter - sgg and muricate with 
soft closely-tomentose processes, which are few and distant from eac 
other, not densely covering the whole Mipaite as in M. ricinoides.— 
roton paniculatus, Lam. Dict. ii. 207; Mallotus chinensis, Lour., and 
other synonyms quoted by Muell. Arg. le. 
ki aghem Bay, CSPMES —Extends over the Eastern Archipelago 
to the Philippines and S. Chi 
. M. clao: qucm e Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 192, and in DC. 
Prod. xv. ii. 972. tall strageling etes or small tree, or sometimes 
a handsome tree (Dattachy), ^ e branches and foliage deabtbet with 
satisorbd stellate hairs. aves opposite, but those of each pair often 
bi s petiolate, -€— ovate or elliptical and acuminate, but 
a m ong to almost orbicular, 2 to 6in. long, 
kms or acute, penniveined and often more or less distinctly 3-nerved 
at the base, green on both sides, with 2 or more glands near the 
base sometimes almost obsolete. Stipules rigidly setiform, short. 
Flowers dicecious, the males sessile or ern pedunculate in 2 or 3 
dense clusters collected in a head or in @ short dense or — in- 
terrupted axillary b mes 2 females 3 bee 6 together in an umbel-like 
cluster on a common peduncle of 4 to 1 in., the pedicels at first short and 
eis but attaining under he fruit the length of the peduncle. E 
rianth-segments about 1 line long. Stamens numerous, the anthers 
