Macaranga.| CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. 145 
rare y in 2 lobes. poe. 2-celled, ed i A without processes. 
Styles linear, thickened at the base, not (roges, rather Sel a hon 
1 line long.—Mallotus Bellach, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 184; 
14, 
: . Queensland. Roc lii bay, Dallachy.—The pala examined by Baillon 
had fione flowers o itn but with them were loose male flowers and remains at ues 
which belong probably i Mallotus polyadenus, thence Baillon’ s mistake in 
M. Dallachyi to Mallo 
_ 9. M. subdentata, Benth. A shrub or small tree, ee rie i 
. a minute scaly tomentum on the inflorescence and y oung shoo 
sinuate-toothed or y almost entire, penniveined, green on bot 
but paler underneath from the minute scales they are more or 
less covered with, 3 to 9 in. long, o tioles varying from 1 
shorter than the leaves, bearing 2 to 5 flowers, of which 1 or 2 sessile 
BOO 
. lanceolate segments scarcely 1 line long and quite distinct from the 
_ base. Ovary and capsule usually 2-celled, scaly-tomentose and shortly 
Pos Styles filiform, scarcely thickened at the base, often above 
$ mm ng. 
ensland. Rockingham bay, Dallachy.—Ve ar M. inamena, with which 
EI Di probly c eti es it in the specimens of F. ellas vollecton first examined. 
d aving returned them I received the specimens now described, which appear to 
s dw. be too ip rh in the female perianth as well as in the ing to bo? he ft as a mere 
The two forms, however, require further comparison in both se 
3. M. inamoena, F. Muell, A tall shrub or small tree, the branches 
: foliage and inflorescence scabrous-pubescent, the short hairs nomoi} or 
irregularly stellate. Leaves oblong or narrow-elliptical, acumina: 
entire, penniveined, green on both sides, the small glands underneath 
few an scattered, 3 to 5 in. po on a petiole of 4 to 1 in m e spikes 
in the upper axils. or r at the ends of the } ches, 2 to 
4 in. long, the flowers clustered whi small broad densely. tomentose 
bracts, the clusters at 1 engh distant along the rhachis th- 
Segmen ut ł line lon tamens 2 peduncles 
axillary or lateral, elongated, be ie aring Poem mes 3 pedicellate flowers 
at the end with another occasionally lower down, sometimes dichoto- 
mous with 1 to 3 fl the of in. br Pedicels at first 
very short, b lengthening to from 3 to 1 in Perianth of 4 or 5 narrow 
Tin ear segments 1 to 2 lines long, united in La spath aceous calyx splitting 
: “pt on e ps (or rarely in the uppermost flower separate ^ Ovary. 
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