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CXXVIII. EUPHORBIACE^E. 
[Mallotus. 
except for some scattered pale hairs appressed to the midrib, 
sessile or nearly so in very unequal pairs, large leaf elliptic-lan¬ 
ceolate or oblanceolate acuminate, edge undulate, narrowed to the 
base; nerves about 14 pairs slender, transverse nervules parallel 
conspicuous beneath; 6 to 9 in. long, 2 to 3 in. wide; small leaves 
ovate, base round, 1 to 1-25 in. long, 1 in. wide. Male racemes 
very slender, *5 to 1 in. long. Flowers on slender pedicels *5 in. 
wide. Bracts minute ovate. Sepals lanceolate acuminate glabrous. 
Stamens 15 to 20, connective broad carunculate. Female flowers 
few on very short racemes. Sepals pubescent. Ovary covered 
with hairy spines. No style. Stigma very long, feathery. Cap¬ 
sule trilobed, -25 in. wide, puberulous with very short black processes 
scattered all over it. Hab. Forests, rare. Malacca (Maingay). 
Pahang, Kwala Tembeling (Ridley). 
52. COCCOCERAS, Miq. 
Trees. Leaves alternate entire or toothed. Flowers in axillary 
and terminal racemes, apetalous. Males clustered sub-sessile. 
Females pedicelled. Male flower; calyx globose splitting into 
3 to 6 sepals. Stamens 15 to 20, free on a convex receptacle. 
No pistillode nor disc. Female flowers; sepals 5, lanceolate 
imbricate. Ovary 3-celled; ovule 1 in a cell. Styles spreading 
hispid. Capsule with the angles produced horizontally or homed, 
at length 3-valved. Seeds sub-globose. Species 8, Malayan, 1 
Tenasserim. 
(1) C. muticum Miill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, p. 470; in DC. 
Prod. xv. (2), 950; Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 424. 
Glabrous tree. Leaves thinly coriaceous drying grey elliptic 
or cuneate-oblong shortly blunt acuminate, base narrowed blunt ; 
nerves 5 pairs, one pair from the base; 6 to 7 in. long, 3 in. wide; 
petioles 275 in. long. Flowers unknown. Fruiting raceme 1-5 in. 
long, pedicels *25 in. long. Fruit (unripe) 1 in. long, lobes com¬ 
pressed acutely keeled broader than long, top round or truncate 
with a very short style. Sepals 6. 
var. 'pedicellatum. Fruiting racemes 12 in. long; pedicels 
1 in. long. Hab. Malacca, Alor Gajah (Griffith). 
Only known from Griffith's incomplete specimens. 
53. PTYCHOPYXIS Miq. 
Trees, small to medium-size, tomentose or glabrous. Leaves 
coriaceous entire. Flowers on axillary racemes or panicles. Males; 
sepals 4- or 5-valvate. No disc. Stamens very numerous in a 
globose head on a receptacle, filaments filiform; anthers oblong, 
flat, cells 4, two upper oblong, two lower much smaller, connective 
prolonged into an acute point. Pistillode o. Female flowers; 
sepals 6, lanceolate. Ovary 3-celled, cells i-ovuled. Style villous 
