Mallotus.} EUPHORBIACE. 949 
flat or convex receptacle ; filaments free; anthers small, dorsi- 
connective, often discrete. Pistillode 0 or minute. 3? pe 
connate in a spathaceous or valvately 3—6-lobed or -partite calyx 
Petals 0. Disk 0 or small. Carpels connate in a 2-4-celled ovary 
ovules solitary in each cell; styles free or connate below, oben 
or recurved above, entire, plumose or papillose. Fruit a capsule 
of 2-3, arely 4, 2- valved, tubercled, echinate, paleaceous or smooth 
cocci. Seeds ovoid, oblong, or pena testa crustaceous ; albumen 
fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat 
Capsules hairy and pr ickly or muricate ; 
Leaves distinctly peltate, orbicular or ‘eat Pia Da oper rte or 
caudate, membranous, base 7-9-nerved, simply p ve, softl 
stellately hairy and glandular beneath; racemes terminal, erect 
capsules 3-coccous, hairy iekly Aine oxburghianus. 
Capsules unarmed ; leaves 3-nerved at base :— 
Capsules 9- -coccous, velvety- ee leaves beneath softly stellate- 
tomentose, above glabrous or scaberulously stellate, canta on both 
sides ; nerves 3 pairs above the basal; a large, scandent shrub 
repan 
Capsules 3- -coccous, densely covered with red, resinous aR leaves 
beneath subglaucous and covered with red, resinous glands, above 
glabrous; nerves 4-7 pairs above the basal; a small eve 
philippinensis. 
1891. Mattorus Roxsurentanus Muell.-Arg.; F. B. I. v. 428; 
iii. 828. 
r 
ergreen shrub. Beng. Nim puteli. 
1892, rrseai AuBus Muell.-Arg.; F. B. I. v. 429; E. D. M. 66. 
Rottlera alba F. I. iii. 829. BR. tetracocca F. I. iii. 826. 
Chittagong; E. Bengal; Tippera. 
A small evergreen tree, 30-40 feet high. Vernac. 
Marleya, 
1893. Matxorus REPANDUS uate sae ; F. B, I. vy. 442. Rott- 
lera dicocca Eyl iii 
