Mallotus.] EUPHORBIACER. 385 
the axillary shoots, the bracts short, ovate, acute; calyx copiously 
glandular-dotted, the female one soon slitting into 5 linear-lanceo- 
late segments; ovary densely golden-glandular and muricate; 
capsules 3-coccous, densely golden-glandular and sparingly and 
shortly muricate, the cocci the size of a pea; seeds pale brown, 
smooth. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests of the Andaman Islands.—Fl. March- 
Apr. ; Fr. May-June.—s.—88.=SiS. Metam. : 
ALCHORNEA, Sw. 
Flowers dioecious, rarely monoecious. Calyx in males 4-(rarely 
3-2-) parted and valvate, in females 6-5- rarely 4-parted or -cleft 
usually in 2 alternate rows, the filaments only at the base ring-like 
connate ; anthers 2-rimose, extrorse or introrse, the cells free from 
the base to about their middle. Ovary-rudiment none or obsolete. 
Ovary 3-or rarely 2-celled, with a single ovule in each cell; styles 
many as ovary-cells, free or shortly united at the base, entire or 
2-cleft. Capsule 8-1l-coccous, dry. Seeds without spermaphore, 
more or less tubercled-rough. Cotyledons elliptical, usually hard, 
as long as the radicle.—Shrubs or small trees, with alternate, 
simple, 3-5-plinerved leaves, at the base 2-6-glandular and often 
produced into 2 narrow spurious stipules. Stipules usually subulate. 
Flowers small, the males often clustered and in interrupted, simple 
or branched spikes, the females forming simple racemes or spikes 
m the axils of the leaves or at the end of the branches. 
Leaves elongate-obovate-oblong, short-petioled ; capsules almost 
labrous . A. rugosa. 
Leaves more or less ovate, "Jong-petioled ; capsules lenticellate 
muricate, indistinctly and shortly tomentose . eos 
1. A. rugosa, Muell. Arg.—An evergreen shrub (?), the young 
branchlets and shoots puberulous; stipules long, subulate; leaves 
elongate-obovate-oblong, rounded or obtuse at the narrowed base 
d bearing here 3-4 orbicular glands in the lowest nerve-axils, on 
a puberulous petiole } to nearly an inch long, shortly and rather 
abruptly bluntish acuminate with a mucro, 2 to'5 in. long, thin- 
chartaceous, crenate-serrate, glabrous, or beneath on the midrib 
indistinctly puberulous ; flowers small, the females sessile or nearly 
so, forming a terminal almost glabrous or sparingly appressed- 
hispid spike at the end of the branches or axillary ; female calyx 4- 
parted, the lobes lanceolate, pale tawny-puberulous; ovary densely 
tawny-puberulous, the 3 styles thick and flat, simple, nearly twice 
as long as the ovary ; capsules almost sessile or spuriously peduncled, 
VOL, II, RA 
. A, tiliefolia. 
