1446 CXVII. EUPHORBIACEJl. [Mallotus. 



obscure or obsolete. Male flowers very shortly pedicellate, clustered along the 

 rhachis of the spikes, with a small bract under each cluster ; females usually 

 solitary within each bract and more pedicellate.. 



The genus is generally spread over tropical Asia and Africa. 

 Anther-cells (small) separated by a broad connective. Capsules echinate 

 with long soft processes. 

 Leaves mostly alternate. Inflorescence terminal. Capsule processes 

 long and soft. 

 Tomentum of the plant soft and loose. Capsule very densely echinate _^ 



with long crowded processes .... 1. U.ncmoiaes. 



Tomentum close and white. Capsules echinate with few scattered 



processes 2. M. pamculatus. 



Leaves opposite. Racemes axillary. Capsule processes setiform . . 3. M. claoxyloides. 

 Anther cells centrally attached to a small connective. Capsules tomentose 

 without processes. 

 Panicles terminal. 

 Leaves oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 3 to 6in. long. Capsules mostly 

 3-oelled. 

 Leaves mostly alternate, minutely tomentoseunderneath. Capsule 



with a red tomentum 4. 71/. jyUUppinemis. 



Leaves alternate, green and glabrous on both sides-, without small 



glands. Capsule tomentose o- -^.f. angnstifoUus. 



Leaves often opposite, coriaceous, shining, glabrous except the small 



glands underneath. Capsules glandular, not red 6. M. polyadenus. 



Leaves broadly ovate-rhomboidal. Capsules mostly 2-celled, the 



tomentum not red 7. j1/. repandus. 



Eacemes or interrupted spikes simple, axillary at the base of the young 

 shoots. 

 Leaves nearly orbicular, the transverse veinlets prominent underneath . 8. M. nesopMlus. 

 Leaves ovate and acute or ovate-lanceolate, white underneath, the 

 'veins fine 9.-1/. discolor. 



1. IVI. ricinoides (Ricinus-like), Muell. Ar(i. in Linnaa xxxiv. 187, and in DC. 

 Prod. XV. ii. 968 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 139. A tall shrub or spreading tree, more or 

 less clothed with a stellate often floccose tomentum, soon wearing off from the upper 

 surface of the leaves, often very dense on the underside, as well as on the branches 

 and inflorescence. Leaves broadly ovate or orbicular, acuminate, entire or slightly 

 sinuate, either peltately attached near the base, or the petiole quite basal, 8, 

 5 or 7-nerved, with 2 glands near the base, varying from 4 to lOin. 

 diameter. Spikes terminal, more or less paniculate, the central one 

 sometimes Gin. long or more, the lateral ones shorter. Flowers nearly sessile, 

 the males clustered with occasionally a female in the same cluster, the females 

 solitary within their bract, and alone or with 1 or 2 males. Male perianth- 

 segments about 1 line long. Stamens about as long and very numerous, the 

 anthers small, very much shorter than the filaments, the cells separated by a 

 broad connective. Female perianth usually 5-cleft, but very soon concealed 

 under the woolly processes of the ovary. Styles 3, tomentose outside, densely 

 fringed and glabrous on the inner or upper surface. Capsules very densely 

 covered with long soft tomentose-villous processes, forming a dense moss-like mass 

 of ^in. or more in diameter. — ( 'ruton ricinoides, Pers. Syn. ii. 586 ; C. moUissinnts, 

 Geisel. Crot. Monogr. 73 ; KMnus mollisnimue, Baill. Adans. vi. 316 ; Mallottts 

 pyaiostach/s, F. v. M. Fragm. iv. 138, and ill. ZippelUi, F. v. M. I.e. 139, 

 and numerous other synonyms quoted by Muell Arg. I.e. 



Hab.: Eockingham Bay, Dallachy : Mount Elliott, Fitznlan ; and in several localities in the 

 more southern parts. Extends also over the Eastern Archipelago to the Philippines and South 

 China. 



Wood of a light color, soft and light.~/3ai7e!/'s Cat. Ql. Woods Xo. 377. 



2. M. paniculatus (paniculate), Muell. Arfj. in Linnaa xxxiv. 189, and in 

 DC. Prol. XV. ii. 965 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 140. A tall spreading shrub or 

 small tree, the branches inflorescence and underside of the leaves white or 



