430 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) [MaUutus. 



A small tree ; branches stout. Leaven rather coriaceous, 3-6 in. diavn., eglandu lar, 

 young clothed on Loth surfaces thickly with rusty pubescence; nerves very strong 

 beneath; petiole 4-3 in., stout. Spikes axillary; male 8-16 in., rather "slender ; 

 flowers subsessile, ^ in. diam. ; stamens very numerous; fern, with occasionally a fe\v 

 male flowers, calyx ^ in. long, shortly tubular. Fruiting raceme sometimes 18 in. 

 long. Capsule -g | in. diam., obscurely trigonous. Seeds in Borneau specimens sub- 

 globose, i in. long, smooth ; in Malaccan (immature) smaller, black, opaque, as in M. 

 larlatus. 



7. TIL, ricinoides, Muell. Ary. in Linncea xxxiv. 189, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 963 ; young parts clothed with floccose fugacious toment/um, 

 leaves alternate long-petioled ovate to orbicular-ovate cordate or peltate 

 entire or remotely denticulate, glabrous above tomentose beneath, flowers 

 small tomentose in simple or compound axillary and terminal spikes, bracts 

 minute, fern, calyx 4-5-cleft, ovary villous echinate, capsule 3-4-coccous size 

 of a cherry densely clothed with stellately scurfy long soft subulate bristles, 

 seeds globose black slightly tubercle*!. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 382. Eottlera 

 ricinoides, A. Juss. Tent. Fuphorl). 33, t. 9, f. 29 A. E. Zippelii, Hassk. 

 Hort. Bogor. 238. Adisca Zippelii, Slums Bijd. 611. R. peltata, Miquel 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 395 {not Roxb.*). Mappa Zippelii, Zoll. Sf Morr. Verz. 

 17, Adelia barbata, Blanco Fl. Filip. Ed. 2, 561. A. Bernardia, Ed. 1, 

 814. Croton ricinoides, Pers. Encheir. ii. 586. C. mollissima, Geisel. 

 Monog. Crot. 73. Crozophora mollissima, Spreng. Ryst. iii. 851. 



UPPER TENASSEBIM, Kurz. DISTRIB. China, Philippines. 



An evergreen shrub. Leaves 56 in. long and broad, thickly membranous, base 

 5-nerved; petiole 2-4 in., scurfily tomentose. I have seen no Tenasserim specimens 

 of this species, which is readily "distinguished by the dense clothing of soft spines on 

 the capsule. 



8. M. cochinchinensis, Lour. FL Coch. 635 ; branches leaves 

 beneath and inflorescence appressedly white- or rusty-tomentose, leaves 

 altercate orbicular or deltoidly ovate caudate-acuminate entire or 3-lobed, 

 base usually cuneate 5-nerved, nerves peltate, flowers in effuse slender 

 panicles, males globose, fern, calyx 3-4-partite, capsule 3-coccous clothed 

 densely with long white squarrose tomentose processes. M. paniculatus, 

 Muell. Arg. in Limicea xxxiv. 189, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 965; Kurz 

 For. FL ii. 383. Eottlera paniculata, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. 33; Benth. 

 Fl. Hongk. 307; Wall. Cat. 7818. Croton paniculatus, LamJc. Encycl. ii. 

 207. Echinus trisulcup, Lour. I. c. 633 (exrl. syn.}. Mappa cochinchinensis, 

 Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 878. Trewia tricuspidata, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 834. 

 Wall. Cat. 7821. 



PEGU and TENASSEEIM, Wallich, Heifer, &c. PENANG, PEEAK, SINGAPORE 

 and MALACCA, Wallich, &c. DISTRIB. Malay Islands, China. 



A tree much resembling in habit M. albus, but branches more slender, leaves 

 smaller, nerves peltate, more membranous with longer points and usually a cuneate 

 base, panicles much more slender, flower and fruit smaller, fern, calyx 3-4-partite, 

 and capsule Fqnarrose with long processes. I maintain Loureiro's name of cochin- 

 chinensis for this species, which is the monotype of his genu?, and should never have 

 been superseded. From Loureiro's description I doubt his Echinus sulcafus being 

 the same plant ; but I assume that Mueller, whom I follow, had good reasons for so 

 disposing of it. 



** Leaves elliptic, oblong, or olovate-ollong, tripli- or penni-nerved. 

 Spikes or racemes usually simple and shorter than the leaves (longer in 

 M. leptostachyus and a few others']. 



