Mallotus.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 437 



Male spikes 1-2 in., slender; flowers few 'in the very short rounded bracts; buds 

 ovoid, T ^ in. long ; sepals 4 ; stamens 30-40, anther-cells oblong not separated at 

 the top by a truncate connective (as in Laivii). Fern, racemes 4-6 in., slender; 

 bracts as in the male ; flowers remote ; sepals 6, lanceolate, glabrous ; ovary glandular ; 

 style very short or 0. I have not seen the capsule, which Wight describes and 

 figures. The quite glabrous branchlets and 2-seriate tubercles of the cocci dis- 

 tinguish this species. Heyne's authentically named specimens in Rottler's and 

 Wallich's Herbaria prove that this, and not M. stenanthus, is the Croton muricatus 

 of Heyne. M. muricatus of Mueller (in DC. 1. c. 972) is a mixture of the 

 Ceylon M. Walkerce. the Clao.rylon muricatum of Wight, the Philippine Cuming 

 ]1705., the Javan Zolling. 3804, and a plant citeft from the Hookerian Herbarium as 

 Falconer n. 1352 (of which latter I find no specimen in Herb. Hook.). Of all these 

 Wight's figure alone represents Heyne's Croton muricatum. Beddome err-oneou-ly 

 gives Wight as the author for Croton muricatum being put into Mallotits, for Wight 

 refers it to Claoxylon. Beddome, following Muerler, refers to his M. muricatus 

 (which, as stated above, includes this and others) Bullion's Axenfeldia intermedia, 

 which may be M. WalJcercs or stenanthus. 



27. BX. Walkerae, Hook. f. ; branchlets and spikes tomentose or 

 pubescent and glandular, leaves opposite long- or short- petioled penni- 

 nerved rhombic-ovate -obovate or -lanceolate obtusely acuminate or caudate 

 sinuate- toothed minutely glandular beneath, base acute, nerves 6-10 pair, 

 male racemes short, bracts large, flowers glandular, fern, racemes elongate, 

 capsule tridymous glandular and clothed with long soft spines. M. murica- 

 tus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 972 (the Ceylonplant only}. Rottlera 

 muricata, Thwaites JZnum. 273 (excl. syn.). 



CEYLON, Walker, &c. ; Central Province, ascending to 4000 ft., Thwaites (C.P. 

 2108). 



A small tree, branches terete, branchlets compressed. Leaves 3-8 by 2-3^ in., 

 hardly coriaceous, pale greenish when dry, tip often broadly and obtusely cau- 

 date, base very acute or cuneate, quite glabrous; petiole -1 in. ; stipules ovate- 

 oblong or -lanceolate, pubescent. Male racemes stout or slender, 1-2 in. ; bracts 

 broad, concave, often as long as the flowers; buds -$-% in., ovoidly globose ; septil* 

 3-4, tomentose ; stamens about 30, anther-cells obloug not separated by a truncate 

 connective. Fern, racemes slender, pubescent or pilose ; flowers few, distant ; s.epals 

 3, lanceolate, and pedicels tomentose; ovary densely echinate ; style very short. 

 Capsule in. diam., yellowish from the copious glands; cocci puberulous, as are the 

 spines. 



Var. laxiflora; male racemes with capillary pedicels -^j in. long. Ceylon, 

 Walker. 



28. HE. stenanthus, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 191, and in DC. 



Prodr. xv. ii. 972 ; nearly glabrous except the resinous and puberulous 

 branchlets and inflorescence, leaves opposite very shortly petioled elliptic- 

 or ovate-lanceolate obtusely acuminate or caudate entire or sinuate-toothed 

 minutely glandular beneath penninerved, nerves 5-6 pair, racemes short, 

 male buds ovoid, fern, narrowly oblong, capsule tridymous glandular and 

 with scattered short conical tubercles. 



CANARA; at Tulliwallv, Ritchie ; Jellapore, Talbot. 



A small tree, branches red-brown, branchlets compressed. Leaves 3-5 in., 

 rather coriaceous, tapering from the middle to both ends, pale greenish-yellow when 

 dry, and shining, with 3-4 black spots above the acute base; nerves raised beneath, 

 as are the cross-nervules and reticulations ; petiole -J-to % in., of young leaves 

 resinous. Macemes ^ | in., axillary and terminal, very slender ; bracts acute ; 

 flowers clustered, subsessile ; buds -^ in. long; sepals 3; stamens 18-20; anther- 

 cells oblong, tips separated by a broad connective. Fern, solitary in the bracts ; 

 sepals 3, lanceolate.' Capsule i in. diam. , yellow from the glands, cocci rounded. 



