Mallotus.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE;E. (J. D. Hooker.) 443 



cineus, Vald Syml. ii. 97. C. montanus, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 546; Wall. 

 Cat. 7723 A. C. distans, Wall Cat. 7792 A in part, and B. C. cascaril- 

 loides, Kauesrh.exSteud.Nomencl.i. UQ. Wall. Cat. 7S4A.~Rheede Hort. 

 MaL v. t. 21, 24. 



Throughout TROPICAL INDIA, along the foot of the Himalaya from Kashmir 

 eastwards, all over Bengal and Burma, Singapore and the Andaman Islands, and 

 from Scind southwards to CEYLON. DISTBIB. China, Malay Islands, Australia. 



A small evergreen tree, 25-30 ft. ; branches rather slender. Leaves 3-5 in., 

 variable in form, glabrous or nearly so above, base narrowed, acute or obtuse ; nerves 

 4-7 pairs above the basal ; petiole 1-2 in. Flowers in stiff spikes, small, sessile or 

 subsessile, males clustered, fern, solitary. Capsules about |-| in. diarn., covered with 

 crimson powder. Seeds globose, smooth, black. 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



43. UK. ? Caput-BXedusee, Hook.f. ; a large tree (in Perak), branches 

 petioles leaves beneath and racemes densely ru sty-torn en tose or villous, 

 leaves 6-18 in. coriaceous oblong or elongate obovate-oblong obtuse base 

 obtuse or subacute 2-glandular above penninerved, nerves 10-12 pairs strong 

 beneath with stroDg cross-nervules and reticulate interspaces, petiole ^-1 in. 

 stout, fern, racemes 1-1^ in. very stout, flowers very shortly stoutly pedi- 

 celled, sepals 5 ovate subacute, disk annular villous, ovary ovoid con- 

 tracted into a short stout style with 3 recurved entire stigmas 3-4-celled 

 densely clothed with close-set long rigid hairs, fruit 1^-2 in. diam. globose 

 indehiscent densely clothed with long soft villous spines, pericarp thin 

 crustaceous, seeds broad in. long dorsally compressed suborbicular, testa 

 smooth crustaceous. 



PERAK, King's Collector. MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1426, 

 1443, 1445). 



1 am doubtful as to the genus of this fine plant. Maingay describes the tree as 

 email, and hairs of the fruit as stinging, and the seeds as arillate. 



44. BK. ? KLunstleri, King In Herb. Calcutta, quite glabrous except 

 the inflorescence, leaves 8-12 in. alternate long petioled coriaceous penni- 

 nerved elliptic-lanceolate acute or acuminate subserrate or serrate eglandular 

 base decurrent, male fl. in sessile bracteate clusters on the divaricating rigid 

 branches of a large^spreading sessile panicle, buds lanceolate, sepals glu- 

 maceous and broadly ovate coriaceous, bracts more or less subsilkily pubes- 

 cent, margins ciliate. 



PERAK, Scortechini, Kunstler (King's Collector'). 



A tree, 40-60 ft. ; brancblets woody, pale. Leaves smooth, very pale green or 

 yellowish above when dry, with a very strong midrib, yellowish green beneath ; 

 nerves 15-20 pairs, spreading, strong but slender, nervules faint reticulate ; petiole 

 1-3 in., strong but not thick. Panicles axillary, 6-10 in. long and as broad ; rachis 

 and branches slender but very stiff, finely but not stellately pubescent, at length 

 glabrate; clusters of flowers rather distant, in. diam., 4-6 fld. ; buds -^ in. long, 

 *wice as long as the bracts, rigid, acute, pale brown ; stamens 20-30, filaments 

 slender, anthers didymaus, cells usually separated by the thick connective. A very 

 distinct and handsome plant, of a totally different habit from any Mallotus, and which 

 1 can hardly doubt is generically distinct ; and if so, Dr. King proposes the name 

 Kuns.tlera glumacea, after his collector who has procured so many new and interesting 

 plants in Perak. 



45. UK. ? vernicosus, Hoolc. f. ; quite glabrous, leaves alternate 

 long petioled rigidly coriaceous elliptic-ovate obtusely acuminate highly 

 polished above eglandular beneath, penni- and obscurely tripli-nerved, male 

 racemes or panicles axillary solitary and in pairs ebracteate, flowers long 

 pedicelled, buds globose, sepals 4, stamens 30-40, connective narrow. 



