428 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [MaUotns- 



nearly lateral. I have seen no fern. fl. or fruit of this apparently very distin; ( 

 species, which differs from M. Tokbrai in the much larger thickly coriaceous leave*, 

 short not viscid male cymes, very much larger male flowers and glohose perianth. 

 Kurz describes the capsule as almost globose, 2-3-coceous, about 1-H '". diain., brown, 

 glossy, fibrous-woody; and seeds as purple, covered with a thick spurious aril. 

 The Perak plant has shorter petioles, larger leaves with 6 pairs of nerves above the 

 basal, raid larger flowers than the Tenasserira ones, and may be a different species. 

 <s. '. 



Sect. II. EUMALLOTUS. Disk 0, or if present annular or cupular. / Seeds 

 without a fleshy coat. 



A. Capsules echinate, tubercled, or clothed with soft spines or bristles. 

 (Capsule unknown in 20. leptostacliyus, 21. Clellandii, VZ.filiformis, 23. pit- 

 berulus, 24. bracteatus, and 34. Kingii.) 



* Leaves 4-14 in. broad, broadly triangular-ovate orbicular or -rhombic, 

 2>--plinerved, tomentose beneath. Racemes or panicles much longer than the 

 leaves. 



2. HZ. barfcatus, Muell. Arc/, in Linncea xxxiv. 184, and in DC: 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 957 ; branches petioles and racemes softly floccnlently woolly, 

 leaves alternate very large peltate suborbicnlar palmatinevved shortly 

 3-lobed densely white stellate-tomentoee, racemes terminal elongate, male 

 calyx unequally 4-5-toothed, fern. 4-clei't, capsule globose densely clothed 

 with layers of stellate hairs. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 3S1 ; Beddome Forester's 

 Man. 208. Rottlerabarbata, Wall. Cat. 7822; Baill. Gen.Euphorb. 423. 

 Wall. Cat. 7820. 



UPPER TENASSEEIM, Kurz ; Amherst, Wallicli. PEEAK, King's Collector, Wray 

 SIKGAPOEE, Lobb. PENANG, Wallicli. NILGHIRI MTS. ?, Noton. The CONCAN, 

 Stocks. DISTEIB. Java. 



A low shrub (Kurz) ; hranchlets very robust. Leaves 8-14 in. diam., dark brown 

 or green above when dry and tomentose or flocculeut when yourg, beneath nearly i 

 white, with 9-11 basal, and several pairs of lateral much raised nerves and many 

 nervules ; lobes acute. Hacen<es 6-10 in. ; peduncle and rachis stout ; bracts thick, 

 obtuse; male fl. in. broad ; iem. nslong; calyx short 4-cleft. Capsules | in. diam. 

 Seeds i in. long, broadly oblong, black, opaque. 



3. IMC. Roxburg'hianus, Muell. Arg. in TAnncea xxxiv. 186, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 9fc2 ; stellately pubescent or tomentose, leaves large 

 alternate long-petioled 7-9-nerved peltate orbicular or triangular-ovate 

 acuminate or caudate subentire or toothed, racemes stout longer than the 

 leaves, capsules 3-lobed haiiy and prickly. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 383; Gamble 

 Man. 2nd. Timh. 36 L. Eottlera peltata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 828 ; Wight Ic. 

 t. 1873 ; Wall. Cat. 7823. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; alt. 2000 ft., Clarke. ASSAM, the KHASIA Mrs., SILTIET, 

 SILLIIOK, MUNNIPOEE, CuiTTAGoNG and MAETABAN, Roxburgh, &c. 



An evergreen tree or shrub ; branchlets rath'er stout. Leaves rather thin, 4-7 in. 

 diam., simply pubescent above, glandular and softly stellate-pubescent beneath; 

 nerves 4-5 pairs above the basal ; basal glands minute; petiole as long as the blade ; 

 stipules linear lanceolate. Rat-fines as long or longer than the leaves, terminal, 

 erect ; bracts L.nceolate ; male fl. $ in. diam., buds globose, pubescent. Fern, calyx 

 irregularly split, segments lanceolate. Capsule \ in. diam. ; cocci thickly crustaceous, 

 shortly aculeate. JSeeds subglobose, smooth. 



4. M. nepalensis, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv v 188; branches 

 robust, leaves beneath and inflorescence shortly white- or rusty-tomentose, 



