Order 106. Euphorbiacece. 297 



14. ACALTPHA. 



1. A. Indica. Erect, smooth, leaves round ovate serrate, 

 long petioled, flowers very small, whitish, in axillary spikes ; 

 involucre cup-shaped, toothed, concealing the capsule. Kokati, 

 Kupi. 



Poona. An annual common weed (#.). Hotter parts of India (H.). 



2. A. ciliata. Differs from the last in being smaller, the 

 ovate serrate leaves acuminate, the spikes more crowded, the 

 involucre with narrow teeth ; stem, petioles and invol ucre softly 

 hairy. 



Poona. Deccan peninsula (H.). 



H. has named after Dalzell "a very remarkable shrubby species," 

 smooth with 2 flowers in a very large round-reniform bract, but it is 

 only known from female specimens and a drawing, and the locality 

 is not given. 



15. MALLOTUS. 



1. M. repandus (Rottlera dicocca, D.). A large woody 

 shrub, leaves large, round cordate pointed, waved or slightly- 

 toothed, softly downy, racemes terminal and axillary ; fruit 

 almond-shaped, 2-lobed, about an inch long. Petdri. 



Konkan. Throughout India (H.). If this is G.'s No. 1333 the 

 leaves fall in the cold weather. H. has it as sometimes a tree with 

 trunk 60 to 80 feet. I noted the leaves as opposite, which 0. has, but 

 not D. or H. 



2. M. Philippensis (Rottlera tinctoria, D.). Tree with oval 

 oblong leaves, shining above, pale and covered with red glands 

 below ; flowers very inconspicuous in panicles, capsule 3-lobed, 

 3-seeded, covered with red meal, size of a pea. Shendri, kamela, 

 rohin, asli. 



Konkan, Ghauts and S. M. country (D.). Throughout tropical India 

 (#.). I had what I thought to be this, a tree with smooth white bark, 

 in the Panch Mahals. " Monkey -face tree, in allusion to their paint- 

 ing their faces red by rubbing them with the fruit." G-., from 

 Buchanan's " Mysore." 



* M. albus (Rottlera mnppoides, D.). Arboreous, leaves cordate pel- 

 tate, long-petioled, white or reddish, hairy beneath, flowers clustered 

 in panicles, capsule round, white, of 3 or 4 cocci, tubercled. Konkan, 

 Canara and Ghauts. * M. Lawii {Rottlera aureopunctata, D.). A 

 dioecious shrub, leaves opposite, oblong, with minute glands below, 

 flowers in racemes, female calyx spathaceous, split on one side, cap- 

 sule small, glandular. Konkan and Canara. * M. stenanthus, a small 

 tree, leaves opposite, ovate lanceolate, racemes short and slender ; 

 anther tips with a broad connective, capsule 3-lobed, with yellow 

 glands and tubercles. 



