8382 : EUPHORBIACES. -[ Mallotus. 
about a foot or more long and broad, acute or shortly acuminate, 
produced into 2 lateral, acute or acuminate lobes, remotely repand- 
toothed, thick-membranous, glabrescent or quite glabrous above, 
simple or panicled at the base; bracts thick, subulate, tomen- 
tose ; female calyx 4-cleft, tawny+tomentose ; ovary densely villous ; 
capsules globular, the size of a small cherry, 3-4-coccous, cover 
with a dense thick stratum of tawny scurfy-tomentose soft prickles; 
seeds small, black, indistinctly wrinkled. 
Has.— Upper Tenasserim. 
5. M. ricinoides, Muell. Arg.—An evergreen shrub, all younger 
parts covered with a floccose tawny or rusty-coloured, rarely greyish, 
fugaceous tomentum ; leaves ovate to orbicular-ovate, cordate or 
more or less peltate at the 5-nerved base, on a scurfy-floccose- 
tomentose petiole 2-4 in. long, acute to acuminate, 5-6 in. long and 
longer and nearly as broad, thick-membranous, remotely and 
minutely toothed or almost entire, above glabrescent or quite glab- 
rous, beneath whitish or tawny floccose-tomentose and often some- 
leaves and at the end of the branches; bracts subulate, minute ; 
female calyx 4- or 5-cleft; ovary greyish villous-echinate ; cap- 
sules almost globular, the size of a cherry, densely covered with 
stellately-scurfy, long, subulate, soft bristles, 3- or 4-coccous ; seeds 
globular, slightly tubereled, black. 
Haxs.—Upper Tenasserim.—Fr. Feb. 
6. M. acoccus, Kz.—An evergreen tree (30—40+15—20 
+ 3—4), the young shoots white or tawny from a minute sc 
tomentum ; leaves broadly ovate to ovate, almost sagittately pro- 
duced at the truncate 5-nerved base and narrowly peltate or almost 
not peltate, 4-12 in. long and nearly as broad, on a tawny oF 
whitish powdery petiole 1-4 in. long, acuminate, almost entire oF 
obsoletely sinuate-toothed, sometimes produced into 2 lateral lobes, 
chartaceous, glabrous above, white-velvety and indistinctly gland- — 
dotted beneath, the transverse net-veination prominent ; flowers 
shortly pedicelled, the males clustered, the females solitary, with — 
minute lanceolate bracts, forming shortly white- or tawny-tomen- 
tose racemes collected in a more or less ample terminal panicle 5 ue 
