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N. Ord. EUPHORBIACE.E. 

 Tribe Acalyphece. 



Genus Mallotus,* Loureiro. Miill. Arg. in DC., 1. c., pp. 

 956983 ; Baill., Hist. PI., v, p. 196. Species 72, natives of 

 the hot parts of the Old World. 



236. MallotllS philippinensis, Miill, Arg. in Lmncca, xxxiv, 



p. 196 (1865). 



Kamela, Kamal, fyc. (N. India), Punndga Kesara (Sanskrit). 



Syn Oroton philippense, Lam. (1786). C. punctatus, Retz. C. coc- 

 cineus, Willd. Rottleraf tinctoria, Roxb. (1798). R. aurantiaca, 



H. & A. Echinus philippinensis, Baill. 



Figures. Rheede, Hort. Malab., pt. 5, t. 21 (and t. 24, which represents 

 a state with fasciated branches) ; Roxb. Coroin, PL, iii, t. 168 ; Bed- 

 dome, Fl. Sylv., t. 289. 



Description. A tree of 20 30 feet, with a trunk 3 4 feet 

 round ; branches slender, with a pale bark, the younger ones 

 covered with a more or less dense ferrugineous tomentum. 

 Leaves articulated, alternate, petioles 1 2 inches long, rusty- 

 tomentose, swollen at the end, blade 3 6 or more inches long, 

 ovate or rhombic-ovate, with two obscure glands at the base, 

 entire, coriaceous, upper surface glabrous, 3-nerved at base, veins 

 very prominent on under surface, which is densely covered with a 

 tomentum of minute, rusty, stellate hairs. Flowers dioecious; 

 female flowers in lax spike-like terminal and axillary racemes ; male 

 flowers 3 together in the axils of small bracts, arranged in longer 

 often much branched axillary panicles ; both more or less set with 

 ferrugineous tomentum. Male flowers : perianth of 3 or 4 thin 

 lanceolate reflexed leaves j stamens about 20 or more on long 

 filaments, the connective tipped by a small red gland. Female 

 flowers : perianth of 2 (3, or more) broadly ovate leaves slightly 



* From /uaXXwrog, woolly. 



f Named after the Rev. Dr. Rottler, a Danish missionary at Tranqucbar, 

 in India, who died in 1836. 



