Mallotus.| EUPHORBIACEE. _ 381 
capsules 2-coccous and didymous, shortly tawny-velvety, the cocci 
as large as a small pea; seeds grey, almost globular, indistinctly 
roughish, SAA. 
Has.—Frequent all over Burma from Ava and Chittagong down to Mar- 
taban and Pegu, especially in the drier gee aes and in the open aad dry 
forests. — Fl. Jan.-Feb.; Fr. March-Apr.—l.— 
. M, sou eppinenay, Muell. Arg. ; Bedd. gig Madr., t. 289 ; 
Brand For, Fl., 444.—Tou-thi-tin—An ev ergreen tree (2—30+ 
aeyay aint ‘the young shoots densely tawny or rusty puberu- 
lous ; leaves from ovate-oblong to obovate-lanceolate and broadly 
lanceolate, acute or obtuse at “the narrowed strongly 3-nerved base, 
on a puberulous more or less glabrescent petiole 1-2 in. long, ey 
acuminate, chartaceous, 3-5 in. long, slightly sinuate-toothe 
almost entire, glabrous above, be meas more or less minutely pala 
lous, crimson- eland- -dotted or glabrescent and somewhat glauces- 
cent ; flowers densely tawny-puberulous, small, sessile or nearly so, 
the males clustered, the females solitary, both forming simple, 
tawny-puberulous, rather stiff spikes at the end of axillary shoots 
and often crowded into a sort of panicle at the end of the branches ; 
ovary densely crimson-glandular, the passe sessile ; capsules 
3-coccous, the size of a large pea, covered with a dense crimson 
indurated-glandular powder ; seeds black, on 
Has. ig Jey sr in the dry and low forests, but also in the drier 
mixed forests, all over Burma, from Ava and Chittagong down to Tenasserim 
and the e Andamans, acd mals into the hill Eng forests up to 2,000 ft. ele- 
vation.— FI. R.S.; Fr. Feb.-March.—l.—SS. = Dil. SiS. Metam. 
Rem ey k used for tanning ; root a red dye ; the crimson ripe of 
the — kapli or kamila-powder) teint a scarlet dye chiefly for s 
3. M. tienes. Muell. Arg.—A shrub ; leaves opposite, ey 
petioled, shortly 3-nerved, lanceolate- obovate, maculate-2-4-galanded 
above the base, bluntish-toothed upwards, beneath sprinkled with 
minute yellowish glands, and while young first tawny-villous, then 
densely and softly pubescent ; male eee shortly pedicelled_ and 
almost clustered ; stamens about 2 0, free, surrounding a min 
Ovary-rudiment, or the latter often wanting; female calyx mem- 
branous, the lobes narrowly 3-angular-ovate, acuminate ; ovary silk- 
lairy, the stigmas strongly penicellate-papillose. Nearly allied to 
M. muricatus, —(After Muell. Arg.) 
: Has.—Tenasserim. 
