Claoxylon.'] 
EUPH0EBIA.CE2E. 
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ments, a thick disk, about 20 purple stamens and a tomentose de- 
presso-globose capsule under half an inch broad with three deep 
rounded lobes and short divaricated entire pilose styles. 
Of C. Mezierii, Bouton in Bojer, Hort. Maur. 283 (name only), I have not seen a 
specimen. Probably it is either C. grandifolium or Neraudianum. C. glandulosum , 
which is enumerated in Dupont’s Mauritian catalogue, I have seen from Bourbon 
•only. 
11. MALLOTUS, Lour. 
Flowers usually dioicous. Male perianth with 3-5 valvate lobes. 
Disk and petals 0. Stamens very numerous, central ; anthers 
2-celled ; filaments free or joined at the base. Female perianth 3-5- 
partite. Ovary usually 3-celled ; ovules solitary in the cells ; styles 3, 
simple, subulate. Fruit capsular. Seeds not caruuculate. — Shrubs or 
trees with alternate or opposite petioled stipulate leaves, the flowers 
of both sexes racemose. Distbib. Tropics of the Old World. 
Species 70. 
1. M. integrifolius, Mull. Ary. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 960. A tree 
20-25 feet high, with the young parts clothed with thin whitish lepi- 
dote tomentum, which disappears as they mature. Leaves alternate, 
long-petioled, entire, coriaceous, ovate, acute, 4-9 in. long, rounded at 
the base, the numerous strong ascending main veins connected by 
distinct transverse venules. Flowers in axillary racemes, the males 
copious and usually panicled ; pedicels very short. Buds round, i in. 
thick, glabrous or lepidote. Male perianth-lobes deltoid. Stamens 
200-300. Female racemes few-flowered and simple. Segments of 
female perianth subulate, \ inch long. Capsule \ inch broad, with 
round carpels each furnished with four firm spreading horns. Styles 
subulate, f in. long. Ricinus integrifolius, Willd. Sj). Plant, iv. 
567. Boutonia mascariensis, Bojer , Hort. Maur. 282. Cordemoya in- 
tegrifolia, Baill. Adans , i. 255. 
Mauritius, in the dense forests of the centre of the island. Also Bourbon. 
No. 577 of Mr. Home’s Seychelles collection, of which a single tree without 
flowers was seen at the south end of the island of Mahe, may be a second species of 
Mallotus. It is glabrous in all its parts, with slender terete branchlets, short- 
petioled obovate obtuse entire subcoriaceous leaves 2-3 inches long with a cuneate 
base, and a tricoccous smooth capsule the size of a pea broader than long, forming 
part of a lax terminal raceme from which all the flowers have fallen, which is con- 
tinued into the axils of the upper leaves. 
12. CROTON, Linn. 
Flowers in monoicous racemes, dichlamydeous or the petals in the 
females suppressed. Calyx campanulate, with 5 deltoid imbricated 
