434 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE2E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Mallotus. 



than tlie petiole, hoary with deciduous stellate pubescence. Capsule 1 in. diam., 

 yellow, carpels hemispheric, spines in. long. Seeds J in. diam., globose, smooth, 

 mottled. 



17. UK. lancifolius, HooJc.f.\ glabrous except the stellately tomen - 

 tose buds and racemes, leaves thinly coriaceous alternate long-petioled tri- 

 plinerved lanceolate acuminate quite entire eglandular beneath, racemes 

 very slender shorter than the leaves, male clusters few-fld., bracts longer 

 than the globosely ovoid rusty-tomentose buds, style very short, capsule 

 tridymous hoary glandular and with a few short slender spikes. 



PENANG ; on Government Hill, Maingay (Kew Distril. 1451), Curtis. 



A tree, about 20 ft.; branches slender, woody; tips of branchlets and racemes 

 Btellately tomentose. Leaves 5-9 by l-2^ in., brown beneath when dry, base 

 eglandular acute or rounded j nerves 3-5 pair above the basal which do not reach 

 the middle, very slanting, strong beneath, cross-nervules few; petiole l-2 in., 

 slender, stiff; stipules ovate-lanceolate. Racemes 1-1 m -> axillary, fern, with male 

 fl. below, bracts lanceolate ; buds of male T X Q in. ; sepals 3, ovate ; -stamens 50-60, 

 anther-cells subglobose, connective rather narrow. Capsule f in. diam. j cocci 

 globose, thinly crustaceous, epicarp not separating. Seeds globose, smooth. 



18. XVI. decipiens, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 194, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 977; branchlets racemes and often leaves beneath softly 

 tomentose rarely glabrate, leaves opposite shortly petioled tripli- and penni- 

 nerved subrhombic-ovate oblong or obovate obtusely caudate repand-toothed 

 minutely glandular beneath, racemes elongate, stamens surrounding a 

 minute pistillode, capsule small 3-dymous pubescent glandular and sparsely 

 tubercled. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 381. Coalodiscus eriocarpoides, Kurz I. c. 392. 

 Wall. Cat. 7725 and 8009. 



BUEMA; at Attran, Wallich; Moulmein, Parish. 



A shrub ; branches woody, branchlets and petioles often velvety. Leaves in 

 unequal pairs, larger 5-10 by 2-5 in., smaller not half that size, rather coriaceous, 

 greenish when dry, base rounded broad or narrow, often 2-glandular, glabrous above, 

 velvety pubescent beneath or glabrate or quite glabrous ; nerves 6-8 pair above the 

 basal which are intramarginal ; petiole J-f in., stout ; stipules oblong, pubescent, 

 caducous. Male racemes 3-6 in.; bracts minute; flowers subsessile, ^ in. diam.; 

 sepals 3, broadly lanceolate, membranous ; stamens 20-40, connective small; pistil- 

 lode minute, columnar. Fern, racemes much stouter ; pedicels very short, hirsute ; 

 sepals 3-4, like the males ; ovary hirsute and tubercled ; style very short ; stigmas 

 plumose, short. Capsule % in. diam. A specimen in Griffith's Herbarium from the 

 Calcutta Bot. Garden, marked " Croton urophyllum" has leaves glabrous beneath. 

 Kurz had no specimens of M. decipiens, the description of which he takes from 

 Mueller. Of his Coelodiscus eriocarpoides he had seen no fern, flower or fruit, but 

 as he has attached this name to Parish's specimen of -M. decipiens in the Calcutta 

 Herbarium, I regard it as a synonym of the latter plant. 



19. M. Wallichianus, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 196, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 980 ; branchlets and racemes scurfily pubescent, leaves 

 long-petioled alternate and opposite elliptic-oblong obtuse or acuminate 

 crenate- serrate mature glabrous triple -nerved, racemes spiciform slender 

 longer than the leaves, male fl. globose apiculate. M. eriocarpoides, Muell. 

 Arg. in DC. Prodr. I. c. 959. Croton castaneifolium, Wall. Cat. 7760. 

 Croton, Wall. Cat. 7728. 



PEGU; at Rangoon, McClelland. Attran Eiver, Wallich. TENASSEEIM, Heifer 

 (Kew Distrib. 4963). MERGUI, Griffith. 



Branches woody, branchlets slender. Leaves 4-6 in., old coriaceous and brown 

 when dry, and quite glabrous, densely most minutely glandular beneath, tip some- 



