Mallotus.] 77. euphorbiacej:. 'W 



MALLOTUS, Lour. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite,, simple or lobed,. 

 sometimes peltate. Flowers usually diojcious, small, in terminal 

 racemes or spikes. Calyx 3-5-partite; lobes valvate in. the males, 

 in the females spathaceous or valvately 3-6-lobed. Petals and 

 disc 0. Stamens numerous, free or cohering at the base, on a cen- 

 tral torus. Ovary 2-5-called ; cells 1-ovuled ; styles as many as the 

 ovary cells, simple or connate at the base. Fruit a dry capsule of 

 2-5-cocci. Seeds albuminous ; cotyledons broad. 



Erect trees. Leaves opposite or alternate. 



Leaves alternate, rusty white tomentose beneath, narrowly 

 peltate. Capsule 3-4-coccous, muricate with soft white 

 tomentose processes ... M. albvs. 



Leaves opposite, nearly glabrous, minutely glandular beneath. 



Capsule 3-clymous with soft, scattered tubercles M. stenanthus. 



Leaves opposite, golden glandular beneath. Capsule with loHg 



soft, villous filaments M. Lawii, 



Scandent shrub. Leaves alternate with soft tawny tomentum, 



3-nerved. Capsule didymous, stellately tomentose M.repaiulus. 



Erect tree. Leaves 3-nerved, glabrous above, puberulous 



beneath. Capsule tridymous, covered with crimson glandular ^ 



powder, unarmed M. fhilipplnensiS'. 



M. albus, Muell. Arg. in Linnsea XXXIV. 188 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 429 ; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 444; Beddome Fl. Sylv. 208; Eottlera maiipoides, 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 230. (Var. occidentdlis.) Throughout the moist 

 forests of the Konkan aad North Kanara. Fl. Sept., Oct. Fr. ripe Nov., 

 Dec. Leaves subpeltate, rusty tomentose or ■white beneath. 



M. stenanthus, Muell. Arg. in Linnaea XXXIV. 191 ; Fl. Br. I. 5; 

 •437. In the evergreen forests of North Kanara, on the ghats from 

 Yellapur southwards. Fl. Sept., Nov. Fr. ripe C.S. Leaves sinuate, 

 toothed, glandular at the base. 



M. Lawii, Muell. Arg. in LinnsDa XXXIV. 192 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 438- 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 209; Eottlera anreopimctata, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 230. 

 Throughout the evergreen forests of the Konkan and North Kanara, com- 

 mon in the forests near the Devimone and Nilkund ghats. Fl. Oct., 

 Dec Fr. ripe Feb., Mch. Leaves penninerved, repand dentate. 



M. repandus, Muell. Arg. in Linnsea XXXIV. 197 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 442; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 444 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 210 ; Eottlera tricocca, Roxb.; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bom. Fl. 230. Throughout the Konkan and North Kanara in 

 moist forests, common in the South Konkan, also in the evergreen forest? 

 near Yellapur. Fl. Sept. Oct. Fr. ripe C.S. 



M. philippinensiS, Muell. Arg. in Linnsea XXXIV. 19G ; Brandis 

 For. Fl. 444; Fl, Br. I. 5. 442; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t; 289; Eottlera tine- 

 ioria, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 230. Kunkicma, K.; roe^i, kapila, shendri, 

 Vern. Throughout the dry forests of ' the pi-esidency and in Sindi 

 Fl. Nov., Jan. Fr. ripe Feb., May. The powder from the fruit yields 

 the kamela dye used for colouring silk* 



