Trewia,] 



80. EUPIIOHBlACEiE. 



315 



for making native drums. (Gamble,) Leaves 6 io, long 1 ft. by 4 in. 

 broad, ovate, acuminate, often cordate, membranous, 3-nerved and some- 

 times with 2 basal glands, petiole 1-3 in. 



2. T. polycarpa, Benth, in Gen. Plant. III. 319; Fl. Br, 5. 424. T- 

 nudiflora, Bedd, Fl. Syly. t. 281. The Koakan. Fl, 0, S. 



25. MALLOTUS, Lour. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite, penni or 3-7-nerved, 

 often glandular dotted beneath, simple or lobed, sometimes peltate. 

 Flowers usually dioecious, small, in terminal racemes or spikes. Males 

 clustered, females solitary in the bracts. Male fl. Calyx globose or 

 ovoid, valvately 3-5-partite. Petals and disk 0. Stamens numerous, 

 free or cohering at the base, on a central torus ; anthers small, dorsi- 

 fixed, cells oftea widely separated by the thickened connective. 

 Pistillode or very minute. Fern, fl. Calyx spathaceous or valvately 

 3-6-lobed or partite. Ovary 2-5-celled, cells 1-ovuled ; styles as 

 many as the ovary cells, simple or connate at the base. Fruit a dry 

 capsule of 2-5, cocci. Seeds albuminous ; cotyledons broad, flat. 



Erect trees. Leaves opposite or alternate. 



Leaves alternate, rusty white tomentose 

 beneath, narrowly peltate. Capsule 3- 

 4-coccous, muricate with soft white 

 tomentose processes 1. M, alius. 



Leaves opposite, nearly glabrous, minutely 

 glandular beneath. 



Capsule 3-dymous with soft, scattered 



tubercles ... 2, M, stenanthus. 



Leaves opposite, golden glandular be- 

 neath. Capsule with long soft, villous 



jOllaments ... ^. M* LawiL 



Scandent shrub. Leaves alternate with soft, 

 tawny tomentum, 3-rierved. Capsale didy- 

 mous, stellately tomentose 4i, M, repandus. 



Erect tree. Leaves 3-nerved, glabrous above, 

 puberulous beneath. Capsule tridymous, 

 covered with crimson glandular powder, 



unarmed ... 5. M. pMlippinensis. 



1, M. albus, Muell. Arg. in Linnaea, XXXIV. 188 ; Fl. Br, I. 5, 429 ; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 444 ; Beddome Fl. Sylv, 208. Bottlera mappoides, 

 Palz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 230. (Var. oooidentaUs,) 



Sikkim, Eastern Bengal, Assam, Western Peninsula on the ghats from 

 the Konkari southwards to Mysore and Ceylon. Throughout the moist 

 forests of the Konkan and North Kanara. Fl. Sept. -Oct. Fr. ripe 

 Nov.- Feb. A moderate-sized or small tree up to 60 feet high, 1*5 feet 

 in diameter. Bark pale white, smooth, inside a thin layer of green 

 parenchyma ; no rhytidome. Wood soft, white. Pores large and moderate 

 sized, often subdivided. Medullary rays fine and very fine, closely packed. 



