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Mallotus.] 
Malacca, Bukit Sadanen and Alor Gajah (Derry). Pahang, 
Temerloh; Kwala Tembeling; Telom. Selangor, Klang Gates; 
Sungei Buloh. Perak, Ulu Temengoh; Thaiping Hills; Tanjong 
Malim; Goping (Kunstler). Penang Hill (Fox). Lankawi, Kwah 
(Curtis). Tringganu, Bundi (Rostados). Kelantan, river banks, 
Kelantan River. Native names : Poko Yapoh (Tringganu); Balik 
Kuning. Distrib. Siam, Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 
The whole plant except the upper side of the leaves is thinly but densely 
stellate hairy; in young leaves the stellate hairs are red, as they are on the 
nerves of adult leaves. The other stellate hairs are whitish. The black 
spines on the capsule are often concealed by the thick mass of stellate 
tomentum. 
(11) M. barbatus Mull. Arg. in Linncea , xxxiv. 184; in DC. 
Prod. xv. (2), 957; Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 428. 
A large spreading bush about 8 to 20 ft. tall. Branches, 
petioles, racemes, whole of young leaves and under side of adults 
covered with flocculent, woolly, stellate tomentum. Leaves soft 
alternate, peltate, trilobed, base round, lobes acute, 8 or 9 in. long, 
7 in. wide; nerves radiating from the top of the petiole 1 in. from 
the leaf edge, about n elevate beneath with transverse nervules 
conspicuous; petioles thick woolly, about 4 i* 1 - Racemes 
6 to 10 in. long, very woolly. Male flowers at base on short side 
branches, -5 in. long. Calyx -2 in. wide, lobes oblong acute, 
glabrous inside. Stamens shorter, very many. Female flowers 
entirely tomentose. Calyx 4-lobed; stigmas 3, short, broad plumose. 
Capsule globose, not trilobed, densely yellow-brown-tomentose, 
*5 in. through. Seeds oblong, black. Hab. Woods, Perak, Batu 
Gajah; Thaiping (Kunstler, Scortechini); Kwala Kenering. 
Province Wellesley, Permatang Bertam; Kuban Ulu (Curtis). 
Penang (Wallich). Kedah, Alor Sta. Distrib. Tenasserim, Java. 
(12) M. cochinchinensis Lour. FI. Cochinchine, 635; Hook, 
fil. F.B.I. v. 430. 
Small tree about 30 ft. tall with slender branches reddish scurfy. 
Leaves thin ovate slightly peltate, or rhomboid or trifid acuminate; 
nerves about 5 pairs, lowest pair from the base; above glabrous 
dull green, beneath nearly white with a fine close tomentum, 
3 to 4-5 in. long, 2 to 3 in. wide; petioles 1 to 4 in. long, tomentose. 
Panicles tomentose, 7 to 8 in. long, with many long slender branches. 
Male flowers -I in. wide, white. Sepals ovate tomentose outside. 
Stamens numerous shorter. Female calyx 3- or 4-lobed. Capsule 
tricoccous, tomentose with a number of horn-like processes. Seed 
black. Hab. Secondary jungle and woods, very common. Singa¬ 
pore, Tanglin. Johor. ~ Malacca (Cuming, Maingay, etc.). Pahang, 
Leban Chondong, Rumpin River (Evans). Selangor, Rantau 
Panjang and Rawang (Kloss). Perak, Gunong Bintang (Kunstler). 
Penang Hill (Curtis, Wallich). Distrib. Burma, Malay isles, Cam¬ 
bodia, China. Native name : Balik Angin. 
FI.M.P., 3. 
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