438 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Mallutus. 



Seeds globose, smooth, polished. Very near M. muricatus, but the shoots and spiki-a 

 are pubescent and fur more glandular, and the male buds narrower. 



29. M . Ziawii, Muell. Arg. in Linn&a xxxiv. 192, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 975 ; branchlets petioles and inflorescence pubescent, leaves opposite 

 shortly petioled elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate obtusely acuminate penni- 

 nerved nerves 5-6 pair entire or repand-toothed minutely glandular beneath, 

 racemes very slender few-fld., fern. 1-3 fld., capsules tomentose glandular and 

 densely clothed with long villous filaments ; styles sessile. Beddome 

 Forester's Man. 209. M. aureo-punctatus, Muell. Arg. in DC. I. c. 973 ; 

 Beddome Forester's Mem. 209. Rottlera aureo-punctata, Dalz. in Hook. 

 Journ. Bot. iii. (1851) 122 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 230. 



The CONCAN and CANARA, Law, Stocks, &c. COCHIN, Johmtone. 



Branches terete, branchlets much compressed, finely pubescent. Leaves 4-8 by 

 1-5 3^- in., rather coriaceous, pale when dry, young thin shining above and 

 glabrous, midrib and rather slender nerves puberulous beneath, base acute obtuse or 

 rounded; petiole in.; stipules lanceolate, villous. Male racemes shorter than 

 the leaves; bracts small ; flowers few, solitary or in distant clusters, sessile or 

 pedicelled, -i in. diam. when expanded, buds globose; sepals 3-4, broad, villous; 

 stamens about 50, anther-cells short, separated throughout by the broad truncate 

 connective. Fern, subspathaceous, splitting into 4-6 lanceolate, unequal, villoua 

 segments. Capsule in. diam., 3-4-coccous ; styles 3-4, appressed to the fruit, 

 plumose. Seeds subglobose, smooth, polished. 



30. BI. Beddomei, Hook. f. ; glabrous except the branchlets and 

 inflorescence, leaves opposite short- or long-petioled penninerved ovate or 

 oblong obtusely caudate-acuminate entire or subentire minutely glandular 

 beneath, nerves 6-8-pair, racemes very slender, male pedicels as long as the 

 ellipsoid acute buds, fern, buds linear-oblong, ovary echinate, style distinct, 

 capsule tridymous glandular stellately pubescent and clothed with long soft 

 spines. M. muricatus, Beddome Forester's Man. 209 in part. 



TRAVASCORE, at Courtallam, Wight ; Anamallay Hills, alt. 4000 ft., Beddome. 



Branches smooth, terete, branchlets compressed. Leaves 5-7 in., thinly coria- 

 ceous, not at all rhombic, base rounded or obtuse ; nerves arched and cross -nervules 

 strong beneath ; petiole -1-2 in. ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, pubescent. Male 

 racemes 2-5 in., lax^flowered ; bracts very short, obtuse; buds T \y in.; sepals 3, 

 membranous, glabrous or puberulous ; stamens about 25, anthers large, cells separated 

 by a very narrow connective. Fern, racemes few- and distant-flowered ; sepals 6, 

 five or some connate, -| in. long, lanceolate, membranous. Capsule f in. diam. 

 Differs from Walkercs in the oblong or ovate leaves with no trace of being 

 rhombic, small bracts, and stellately tomentose larger fruit. Beddome no doubt 

 includes this under his muricatus. 



31. UK. khasianus. Hook. f. ; glabrous except the tomentose in- 

 florescence, leaves opposite shortly petioled penninerved elliptic-ovate -oblong 

 or -lanceolate entire or sinuate-toothed caudate-acuminate eglandular 

 beneath, base rounded or broadly cuneate, male racemes many-fld. buds 

 globose, fern, long slender, capsules long-pedicelled tridymous pubescent and 

 clothed with slender prickles. Claoxylon No. 10, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. 8f T. 



KHASIA MTS., Griffith ; near Churra, alt. 3-4000 ft., J. D. H. % T. T. 



A small tree ; branchlets woody, tips and young petioles stellately pubescent. 

 Leaves 4-10 by 2-3 in., thinly coriaceous, pale when dry and alike on both surfaces, 

 base with 2-3 glands above ; nerves 6-9 pair, slender, cross-nervules distant faint ; 

 petiole ^ f- in., rarely more ; stipules triangular-lanceolate. Male racemes 3-6 in., 

 sessile, scurfily sU-llately-tomentose ; bracts very short and broad ; flowers ctafttered, 

 sessile and shortly pedicelled,. -J- in diam. ; calyx tomentose, unequally 3-cleft ; stamens 



