380 EUPHORBIACER. [ Mallotus. 
* Capsules unarmed, but covered with a various tomentum 
‘om tomentose to peeays 
Ss 
Capo 
Scandent Raits — er —— tellat “es = panel 3 ‘ . WM. repandus. 
OO Capsules 3-coccous. 
Leaves beak abttcey and crimson-resinous ; bag tctat 
densely covered with crimson resinous powder raat fi erat: 
Ovary silky-pubescent - MW. decip 
* *& Cap — armed sith longer or ‘sherders bars or crowded 
s, the indument various. 
(@) ete or spikes collected in terminal, ample, rarely 
— panicles 
-+ Leaves peltate, more or less orbicular-ovate. 
Leaves broadly peltate, a 3-lobed ; capsules short-pedun 
cled, globular, red with a thick dense stratum of 
piietbuhabent: “soft, short bristles . UM, barbatus. 
Leaves usually narrow Secale not lobed capsules sessile 
densely covered with loose soft- Nibawcaist bristles nearly 
long as the pened of ee capsule itse ‘ ae ricinoides, 
spb ves Sats: or a peltate shortly white 
or rarely tawny-tom beneath, often 
Yhimibolt fate Capek itnirthy a laxly 
muricate. 
Capsules sessile or nearly so, 4- or 5-coccous, almost aetel, 
scurfy whitish tomentose : . MM. tetracoccus. 
Capsules 3-coccous and 3-lobed, tawny-tomentos - M. paniculatus, 
OO Racemes or spikes terminal or coe ey simple or 
at least - eo — sule lobed, 3-coccous, 
5 regi 
sules peduncled, tom e and glan ndular . M. Roxburghianus. 
++ Ca apsties densely yellowish glandular, otherwise é 
gia or ie more or less narrowed to- 
the bas 
+ Lea hue. 
Young parts and bers etiaath ar alae : ‘ : - M. acuminatus. 
ves no 
ar 8 porte and leaves beneath pets: petioles long and 
All parts ite glabrous ; petioles proportionally short ; | M. wuricaiae 
(1. ML. re Fiore Muell. Arg. ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., 210.—WNa- 
and oe at the end of the branchlets ; calyx-lobes ovate; 
velvety-tomentose outside ; ovary tomentose, 2-celled ; styles sls 
