950 BENGAL PLANTS. (Mallotus. 
In all the provinces. 
A large, scandent shrub, stem weak, sometimes 60-80 
feet long. Vernac. Akus, nan bhanttr. 
1894. MALLoTUS PHILIPPINENSIS Muell.-Arg.; F. B. I. v. 442; 
E. D. M. 71 ottlera tinctoria F. I. iii. 827. 
In all the provinces. 
A small evergreen ak 20-80 feet high. Vernac. 
Kamala; Santal. Ror 
842. Cleidion Bl. F 
Glabrous trees; leaves alternate, usually sinuate-toothed, penni- 
nerved. Flowers moncecious or diccious, small; males in long, 
axillary racemes; females 1-2, on a long, axillary peduncle; 
perianth simple. ¢ Sepals connate in a. globose calyx, splitting 
into 3-4 valvate segments. Petals 0. Stamens numerous, in @ 
globose mass on a common receptacle ; filaments free 
dorsifixed and 4-celled or 2-celled, the cells transversely didymous 
on a wide connective. Pistillode 0. ¢ Sepals 3-5, imbricate. 
Petals 0. Carpels connate in a 2-8-celled ovary ; ee solitary 
in each cell; styles 2-3-fid, connate below, arms long, filiform. 
Fruit a capsule of 1-3, 2-valved cocci. Beds cman testa 
coriaceous ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. 
1895. CLEIDIoN savanicum Bl.; F. B. I. v. 444; E. D. c. 1348. 
Chittagong 
An evergreen tree. 
ee 
843. Macaranga Thouars. 
A or shrubs; leaves alternate, = large and peltate, entire 
lobed, more or less glandular beneath, 3-5-nerved at base 
Weavers usually dicecious, in axillary racemes or panicles ; sia 
simple; males many, clustered, females one or few to each bract; 
bracts often large, entire toothed. ¢ Sepals 3-5, valvate, 
forming a minute glo seis or euseual calyx. Petals 0. Disk 0. 
Stamens central, sometimes 1-8, oftener 10-30; filaments short, 
free ; anthers terminal, short, 2- oie _ 4-valved, or 3-celled 
and 3-valved. Pistillode 0. ¢ Sep e in a 2-4-lobed calyx: 
Petals 0. Disk 0. Carpels connate in a 2-6-celled, rarely by 
abortion 1-celled ovary ; ovules in each cell solitary; styles entire, 
short or long. Fruit a small capsule of 1-5 naked or echinate, 
. 2-valved cocci, often glandular or with a waxy coat. Seeds glo- 
5 aig tia ip. 
