146 CVIII. EUPHORBIACEZ. [ Macaranga, 
and capsule ena 2-celled Med 3-celled, echinate. Styles long and l 
slender, thickened at the bas attaining sometimes 5 lines.— Mallotus 
ina “a Herb. 
Queensland. Hockingham Bay, Dallachy. 
4. M. involucrata, Baill. Etud. Euph. 482. A tree attaining some- — 
times 50 to 60 ft., but often small and straggling, the branches in 
florescence and underside of the leaves softly p ahesient, Tentes broadly : 
ovate-rhomboidal, acuminate, entire or slightly sinuate and denticulate, — 
usually — peltate, 3- 5- or 7-nerved, with 2 to 4 flat glands on 
upper to ong an sometimes as broad, on a petiole of 2 to 
in. Stiga ules Pa o Male spikes in axillary panicles not much 
branched and shorter than the leaves, the flowers almost sessile, in 
dense clusters within an oblong or ovate toothed bract of about 2 lines. | 
Perianth-segments about 2 line lon ,villous outside. Stamens 10 to 15. - 
Female as NER e simple or nearly so, the eduncle ssilliay or lateral, | 
shorter e leaves, with a single pata qot several distant clusters. — 
Bracts en epi ovate or cordate, acute, toothed, often 4 in long. Perianth — 
sessile, short, broadly and obliquely cup-sha ped. Ovary 1- or 9-celled, — 
more or less ‘muticate — soft —— Styles. J! or 2, long, ms 
xv. li. 101124 Urtica involucrata, Roxb, Fl. Ind. ii. 592; r 
mallotoides, F. — Fragm. iv. 189; M. asterolasia, F. Muell. Y c. 140, ; 
Baill. Adans. vi. 317. a 
I sep Endeavour river, A. Cunningham ; Port Molle, M i : 
ingham Bay and Mount Elliott, Dallachy; Cape York, Daemel.—The species Hor 
the pone Archipelago, but not in emn except as pecie p^ the Calcutta - 
Muell. Arg. in ps. Prod. xv. ii. 997. A tall erect i 
long peti 
veinlets. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, acute, 4 in. 
membranous margins. Male panicles often much Nac ido but sho 
than the leaves, the flowers pedicellate in the clusters. Bracts ova 
segme Female peduncles simple, bearing few 
Miam ee gay cup-sha a Bracts ip peu 
: ed : Ms long, yir Ade vary muricate with glabrous entire 
rocesses. Styles irah long, papillose or shortly fri 
Ca m9 3-celled, éoniibas, shortly and sparingly muricate, 95 
ines diameter.— Zicinus  Tanarius , Linn.; Mappa tanaria, Spre 
Syst. iii, 878. 
