284 cxxviii. euphorbiaceal [. Melanolepis. 
solitary in a bract. Male calyx globose splitting into 3 or 5 lobes. 
No disc. Stamens 200 to 250 free on a convex stellate-hairy 
receptacle; anthers dorsifixed oblong emarginate at tip, connective 
appendages sub-globose purple. No pistillode. Female flowers; 
sepals 5. Disc annular crenate. Ovary 2-(rarely 3-)locular. 
Styles free divaricate papillose. Capsule 2-(rarely 3-)lobed, split¬ 
ting into 2 bivalved cocci. Seed sub-globose foveolate, pseudo-aril 
purple. Species 1, Cambodia, Formosa, Malay islands to Melanesia. 
(1) M. multiglandulosa Rchb. fit. and Zoll. Linncea, xxviii. 324. 
Mallotus moluccanus Miill. Arg. in Linncea, xxxiv. 185. Melano- 
lepis moluccana Pax and Hoffm. Pflanzenreich, iv. 147; vii. 142, 
Fig. 20. 
Tree, about 30 ft. tall. Leaves thin ovate-cordate coarsely 
toothed, tip acuminate, above glabrous when adult, beneath with 
scattered stellate hairs; young leaves, shoots, and inflorescence 
scurfy and stellate-hairy all over; nerves 5, radiating from the 
base, the midrib with 3 or 4 pairs of nerves, transverse nervules 
parallel; 6 to 9 in. long, 6-5 to 10 in. wide; petioles glabrous, 
6 in. long. Panicles in terminal axils several erect densely tomen- 
tose, 6 or 7 in. long. Male flowers -25 in. wide. Female flowers 
crowded on longer pedicels nodding. Capsule -25 in. long, tomen- 
tose -15 in. long. Hab. Forests, Pahang, Kwala Semantan. Selan¬ 
gor, Kwala Lumpur. Perak, Kampong Kota (Wray). Kelantan, 
Chaning (Ridley). Native name: Jarak Kayu. 
51. MALLOTUS, Lour. 
Small trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate entire, 
toothed, or 2-lobed, sometimes peltate, often gland dotted. 
Flowers small or minute in axillary or terminal simple or panicled 
spikes or racemes. Petals and disc usually none. Male flowers 
clustered, females solitary in the bracts. Male flowers; calyx 
globose or ovoid, 3- to 5-fid. Stamens 20 to 30 or more, crowded 
on a convex or flat receptacle; filaments free; anthers dorsifixed 
globose or oblong parallel separated by a wide connective. No 
pistillode. Female flowers; calyx spathaceous or 3- to 6-lobed. 
Ovary 2- to 4-celled. Styles free or connate below entire plumose 
or papillose. Capsule of 2 or 3, rarely 4, bivalved cocci, smooth, 
tubercled or echinate. Seeds ovoid, oblong or globose. Species 
100, all Asiatic but 2 African. 
§ i. Echinocroton. Leaves 3-nerved from base usually opposite not peltate. 
Fruit hairy often spiny. 
Leaves glandular-glandulose beneath, orbi¬ 
cular-ovate . . . . . (1) M. tilisefolius 
Leaves pubescent beneath, ovate or elliptic. {2) M, leucocalyx 
Leaves scabrid-pilose beneath, very unequal (3) M. dispar 
Leaves glabrous. 
Leaves elliptic cuspidate sub-serrate 
(4) M. bracteatus 
