1448 CXVII. EUPHORBIACE.E. [Mallotm. 



upperside glabrous, with obscure glands near the base, the under surface 

 pale or ferruginous with a minute tomentum, the principal veins ferruginuous 

 tomentose. Flowers dioecious, the racemes terminal or in the upper axils, 

 the males more branched than the females, all much shorter than the leaves. 

 Male perianth-segments membranous, about 1 line long. Filaments short, 

 anthers rather large, the cells attached in the centre to a short connective often 

 tipped with a red gland. Female perianth ovoid-tubular, i or 5-toothed, 

 enclosing the ovary. Styles short, oblong, densely fringed on the inner face. 

 Capsule tridymous, 8 to 4 lines diameter, covered witha red stellate tomentum 

 without any processes. Seeds nearly globular. — Croton philip/iinensis, Lam. 

 Diet. ii. 206; Echinus philliinnemtis , Baill. Adans. vi. 314; Uottlera tinctoria, 

 Roxb. PI. Corom. ii. 36, t. 168, and other synonyms quoted by Muell. Arg. I.e. 



Hah.: Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. Ciinnhi(iham, F. v. Uliieller; Wide Bay, Biduill ; 

 Pine River, Fitzalan; Rockhampton, Thozet ; Rockingham and Edgecombe Bays, Dallachij. 



In India the bark i-s used for tanning, and the red powder surrounding the ripe capsules is 

 used for dying silk. As a purgative and anthelmintic, this red substance is known as " kamela," 

 and is soluble in alcohol but not in water — amount, 3^ per cent. ; the bark of the roots contain 

 a similar dye. 



Wood close-grained, hard and very tough, of a light straw-eolour. — Bailey^s Cat. Ql. Woods. 

 No. 379. 



Leaves sometimes infested with the blight-fungus Asterina epi.rira, Berk. 



The species is widely spread over tropical Asia, extettding northwards to South China. 



5. M. angustifolius (narrow-leaved), Benth. Fl. AuMr. vi. 141. A small 

 tree, glabrous, except the inflorescence and sometimes the young shoots pubescent 

 with short spreading hairs. Leaves alternate, but often crowded at the ends of 

 the brancEes so as to appear opposite or verticillate, on petioles varying in the 

 same cluster from under -^in. to above lin. long, oblong elliptical or almost 

 lanceolate, acuminate, slightly and irregularly dentate, 4 to Sin. long, and rarely 

 2in. broad, rather rigid, penniveined, green on both sides without the small 

 glands of the under surface of most Malloti. Flowers dioecious, in short sessile 

 panicles at the ends of the branches. Bracts small, lanceolate or ovate, entire. 

 Male perianth dividing into 4 lobes. Stamens numerous ; anther-cells attached 

 dorsally by a connective shorter than themselves. Female perianth of 5 imbricate 

 acute segments. Ovary villous, 3-celled. Styles united at the base, spreading 

 and bifid, but not long. Capsule tridymous, tomentose, not muricate, above 

 4 lines diameter. 



Hab.: Rockingham Bay, DaHacftj/. 



6. VtL. polyadenus (many glands), F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 184 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Aiistr. vi. 142. A tall straggling shrub or small tree, glabrous except a minute 

 scaly tomentum on the inflorescence. Leaves either opposite and unequal in the 

 pair or alternate, shortly petiolate, oblong elliptical or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or 

 acuminate, coriaceous and sometimes shining above, covered underneath with the 

 minute glands of M. nesophitns and of if. discolor, 3 to 6in. long, penniveined, 

 and sometimes 3 or 5-nerved at the base, the 2 to 4 glands of the upper surface 

 very uncertain or obsolete. Flowers sometimes monoecious, but the two sexes 

 in different spikes or racemes, and usually on different specimens, the racemes 

 1 to 4in. long in the forks or upper axils, or forming a terminal panicle. Male 

 flowers clustered, the pedicels rarely 1 line long. Filaments short. Anther- 

 cells attached to a small connective. Female flowers solitary within the bracts, 

 on pedicels at first short, but lengthening to 2 or 3 lines. Perianth divided 

 nearly to the base into very small segments not enlarged under the fruit. Styles 

 recurved and closely appressed to the ovary, the inner or upper surface very 

 .shortly fringeJ-papillose. Capsule tridymous, about 4 lines diameter, glabrous 

 except a few of the scale-like glands of the rest of the plant. 



Hab.: Cape York, ir. Hill ; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 



Wood light-yellow outside, changing towards the centre to a brown, close in grain and hard ; 

 suitable for mallets, ohisel-handles, &c. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 379a. 



