294 A FLORA OP MANILA 



16. MALLOTUS Loureiro 



Shrubs or trees with opposite or alternate, entire, toothed, or lobed, 

 8- to 7-pIinerved or penninerved leaves, sometimes peltate, often gland- 

 dotted on the lower surface and with, glandular areas near the base on 

 the uppet surface. Flowers small, apetalous, monoecious oi dioecious, 

 in simple or panicled spikes or racemes, the males clustered, the females 

 solitary. Male flowers : Calyx globose or ovoid, valvately 3- to 5-cleft. 

 Stamens 20 to many, on a central receptacle; filaments free; anthers small, 

 2-celled. Female flowers: Calyx sp^the-like or valvately 3- to 6-lobed. 

 Ovary 2- to 4-celled; styles various; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule of 

 two or three, 2-valved, smooth, tubercled, or spinous cocci. (Greek 

 "woolly," from the soft pubescence of some species.) 



Species about 80 in the tropics of the Old World, about 20 in the 

 Philippines. 



1. Capsules unarmed; leaves alternate. 

 2. Leaves orbicular-ovate, angularly repand or toothed, the younger 

 ones deeply 3- to 6-lobed; capsules brown-pubescent. 



1. M. rji.oluceanu8 

 2. Leaves oblong-ovate, entire or subentire; capsules covered with a 



red powder _ 2. M. philippensis 



1. Capsules pubescent and armed with scattered, short, spine-like processes; 

 leaves opposite 3. M. papillaris 



1. M. moluccanus (L.) Muell.-Arg. Alim (Tag.). 



A shrub or small tree 4 to 10 m high, more or less finely stellate- 

 pubescent and furfuraceous. Leaves large, orbicular-ovate, 10 to 25 cm 

 long, acuminate, base cordate, some often deeply 3- to 6-lobed, others 

 coarsely angular-toothed or repand. Panicles in the upper axils, up to 

 to 20 cm long. Flowers greenish-yellow, the males fascicled along the 

 branches of the inflorescence, the sepals reflexed at flowering time, elliptic- 

 lanceolate, about 7 mm long. Capsule about 7 mm long and wide, smooth, 

 stellate-pubescent at least when young, of 2 or 3 dehiscent cocci. (Fl. 

 Filip. pi. 218.) 



In thickets and waste -places, occasionally also in gardens,. fl. all the 

 year; throughout the Philippines. Malaya. 



2. M. philippensis (Lam.) Muell.-Arg. Banato (Tag.). 



A tree 4 to, 10 m high, the branchlets, young leaves, and inflorescence 

 brown-pubescent. Leaves alternate, oblong-ovate, entire or sinuate- 

 toothed, acuminate, 7 to 16 cm long, base rounded, 3-nerved, with 2 glands 

 on the upper surface which is glabrous, the lower surface somewhat 

 glaucous, puberulent, with numerous small, scattered, crimson glands. In- 

 florescence axillary. Male spikes solitary or fascicled, 6 to 8 cm long, 

 densely many-flowered, thi flawers about 3 mm in diameter, the anthers 

 with crimson glands. Female racemes solitary, 3 to 7 cm long. Ovary 

 and styles with crimson glands. Fruit subglobose, 6 to 8 mm in diameter, 

 unarmed, densely covered a red or crimson powder. 



In thickets San Juan del Monte, fl. March-April; widely distributed in 

 the Philippines. India to southern China, through Malaya to Australia. 



3. IVI. papillaris (Blanco) Merr. 



An erect shrub 2 to 3 m high, all parts more or less densely and 

 softly pubescent with short stellate hairsv Leaves opposite, orbicular- 



