Mallotus.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACEX. 141 
small with a broad connective as in M. ricinoides. Female periensonsnge 
ments lanceolate, attaining 2 lines under the fruit. Styles rather 
short, densely fringed on the inner hor. Capsule 3-dymous, Rec jin. 
iameter, muricate with rather rigid setiform processes.—Zchinocroton 
claoæyloides, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 32; ZEchinus claoxyloides, Baill. Adans. 
i. 915; oases affinis, Baill. Etud. ci 424, 
Quee Brisbane teh Moreto weed Fraser, W. Hill and F. Mueller, C. 
rcge Tockhampton, Dallachy ; Wide Bay, B idl, ‘Lizard isan A Cunningham 
. S. s. Archers Dr Leichhardt ; b. F. Mueller. 
if T. ficifo eins Baill. Leaves broader, often es and 3- or Tauro entire or 
este toothed. Male flowers lar rge.—Rockhampton, Dallachy, Bowman. 
acrophylla. orsi itt ovate, acuminate, 4 to 8 in. long, usually 3-nerved 
at de base. Stipules longer.— m Bay, Dallachy. 
o DRP Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 196, and i 
DC. Prod. xv. ii. 80. A tree often acquiring a capa A size, the 
branches and inflorescence more or less ferruginous-tomen Leaves 
on long petioles pews vate taiibentets or almost ovate peter: or 
obtuse, entire, contracted or rounded and 3- hervel at the base, 9 to 
in. lon ng, more coriaceous than in the preceding species, the upperside 
glabrous, with obscure glands near the Das. the under surface pale or 
ferruginous Das a minute tomentum, i principal veins ferruginous 
tomentose. Flowers dicecious, the racemes terminal or in the upper 
axils, the males more branched than the females, all much shorter than 
e leaves Male perianth-segments membranous, about l 
Filaments short, anthers rather large, the cells attached in the centre 
a short connective often tipped with a red gland. Female perianth 
yles 
oblong, densely fringed on the inner face. Capsule tridymous, 3 to 
4 lines. diameter, covered with a red stellate tomentum without any 
processes. Seeds nearly globular.— Croton philippinensis, Lam.. ict. i1. 
206 ; Echinus Pon an Baill. Adans. vi. 314; Rottlera tinctoria, Rox 
Pl. Corom. ii. 36, t. 168, and other synonyms quoted by Muell. Arg. Le. 
Queen Bris river, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, F. Mueller ; zm 
Bay, Bide mille Pine river, gode Bbckhüniptus, Thozet; Rockingham and Edge 
ag Bays, Dallach 
S. Wales. Hastings and Clarence rivers, Fete C. Moore, and others; 
oihan woods, N. S. Wales, London Exhibitio n, 186 02, n. 
The species is = wr over tropical Asia, cade eae to South China. 
pe 
varying in the d" ohabter from under pib above lin. lon 
blong“elliptioal o or ipee lanceolate, acuminate, slightly and dde d 
dentate, 4 to Sin. long, and rare in. bro , rather ri nni- 
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