286 CXXVIII. EUPHORBIACE^. [MallotUS. 
tomentose, axillary and terminal. Sepals 3 to 5 lanceolate or 
elliptic acute pubescent all over. Stamens 80 to 100, connectives 
broad emarginate at top. Female sepals lanceolate-ovate connate 
at base. Ovary trilocular, densely tubercled and stellate-hairy. 
Styles connate at base plumose. Capsule 3-lobed hairy and spiny. 
Seeds globose. Hab. Open country, Johor, Pulau Tiuman (Kloss). 
Pahang, Pekan (Ridley). 
(2) M. leucocalyx Mull. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. (2), 270. 
Shrub or treelet about 8 to 15 ft. tall; branchlets densely tomen¬ 
tose. Leaves rather thin opposite elliptic acuminate, margins 
undulate serrate, narrowed towards the base, blunt, not peltate 
or cordate, glabrous above, tomentose beneath; nerves 8 or 9 
pairs, elevate beneath; 6 to 7 in. long, 3 to 3-25 in. wide; petioles 
tomentose, 2-5 in. long. Racemes sub-terminal velvety-tomentose. 
Bracts elongate lanceolate acuminate tomentose, -i in. long, 2 to 
3 in. long. Male flowers; sepals 3 or 4, oblong-lanceolate acute 
hairy outside and glandular. Stamens 30 to 35, connectives broad. 
Female flower; sepals 3 ovate acuminate pubescent. Ovary 
softly spiny; spines hairy. Styles 3, connate half-way papillose. 
Capsule trilobed densely covered with soft hairy spines. Hab. 
Open country in the north. Kedah, Alor Sta (Ridley). Disirib. 
Philippines. 
(3) M. dispar Mull. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. (2), 971; Pax, 
Pflamenreich, l.c. 152. 
Shrub or treelet about 8 to 15 ft. tall, tomentose. Leaves 
thin chartaceous lanceolate-elliptic to ovate-elliptic acuminate, 
narrowed and blunt at base, edge crenate-serrate, above glabrous, 
beneath hairy on the midrib and 8 pairs of nerves and the nervules; 
5 or 6 in. long, 2 to 3 in. wide; petioles tomentose, *75 in. long. 
Stipules lanceolate acuminate tomentose, -25 in. long. Male 
racemes slender tomentose, 4 in. long. Flowers small tomentose 
in remote clusters of 4 or 5. Bracts lanceolate acuminate, little 
longer. Sepals 3, oblong. Stamens $5 to 50 on a discoid receptacle. 
Female racemes stouter, 2 to 3 in. long, tomentose. Flowers 
solitary; bracts lanceolate tomentose, -15 in. long. Sepals 3 or 4, 
lanceolate acute tomentose. Ovary densely tomentose with dark 
processes. Styles 3, very shortly connate plumed. Capsule tri¬ 
lobed, *4 in. through, shortly tomentose with a few scattered black 
subulate processes. Hab. Foot of limestone cliffs, Johor, Pulau 
Tiuman (Burkill). Selangor, Batu Caves, abundant. Perak, 
Lenggong (Ridley). Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 
This is very near M. leucocalyx, but less tomentose, and the fruits are 
less armed with spines. It is an abundant bush or small tree at the foot of 
limestone rocks and conspicuous for its young red leaves. 
(4) M. bracteatus Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 436. 
Nearly glabrous except the inflorescence, a slight pubescence 
on the young parts. Leaves thin glabrous elliptic cuspidate- 
