Macaranga.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 451 
stamens 1-2, styles very short, capsules small didymous covered with waxy 
glands. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 389. Mappa populifolia, Muell. Arg. in Linnea 
xxxiv. 198.  Pachystemon populifolius, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 462.— 
Wall. Cat. 7813. 
PrwawG, Wallich. Mauacoa, Griffith, Maingay. ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz.— 
DısTRIB. Sumatra, Borneo. 
A small evergreen tree; branches rather slender, terete, tips quite glabrous or 
puberulous. Leaves 3-5 by 14-2} in. membranous, brown above when dry, base 
eglandular rounded, beneath of a dark yellow-brown colour, triple-nerved and with 
6-8 pair of slender nerves above the basal, cross-nervules very faint ; petiole 1-3 in., 
Very slender; stipules lanceolate. Male panicles shorter than the petioles ; branches 
short; bracts at the axils obtuse, hoary, floral concave giabrous; flowers 45; in. diam. ; 
sepals broad; anthers 4-locellate. Capsule 4 in. diam., yellow from the glands. 
Seeds globose, rough.—Kurz describes the cocci as sparingly and minutely 
tubercled. 
17. M. javanica, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1004; shoots 
and panicles rusty-tomentuse, leaves long-petioled ovate-lanceolate from a 
broadly cuneate base acuminate entire strongly tripli- and penni-nerved, 
panicles elongate subsessile, bracts of male broadly ovate pectinately serrate 
and glandular, sepals 2-3 very broad glabrous, stamens 2-3, stigmas large 
teflexed lobed, capsule minute 2-lobed densely glandular. Wawra It. Pr. 
Sax. Cob. Bot. 48. Mappa javanica, Blume pn 625; Zolling. in Linnea 
xxviii. 308. M. bancana, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 458. Rottlera 
javanica, Hassk. in Cat. Hort. Bogor. 238; Miquel l. e.i. ii. 403. R. mon- 
tana, Heyne mss.— Wall. Cat. 7835. 
PENANG? and SINGAPORE, Wallich. Maracca, Grifith (Kew Distrib. 4725), 
ervey. —DISTRIB. Java. , . 
Branches stout, woody, terete, black, sparsely pubescent towards the tips which 
and the youngest leaves are red with scurfy stellate pubescence. Leaves 5-7 by 14- 
3 in., coriaceous, above smooth biglandular and minutely cordate with incurved 
Margins at the very base, beneath red-brown with 6-7 pair of very strong nerves 
above the bases, and close strong cross-nerves, glands pitted; petiole 1-2j iu.; 
stipules variable, linear or lanceolate from a broad base. Male panicles 6-8 in., 
rachis and branches slender; floral bracts very broad, } in. long ; flowers gg in. diam. ; 
Sepals orbicular, concave. Fem. panicles as long but less branched than the male ; 
bracts shorter ; calyx 4-lobed ; styles fleshy. Capsule }-§ in. diam., black when dry. 
eeds 3. in, diam., globose, nearly smooth, black.—Mueller describes the capsule of 
the Javan plant as covered with soft green prickles. The bracts of the Peninsular 
Specimen are larger than in the Javan. 
Series IT. Male ft. in branched anicles, fem. subcapitate on a stout short 
Peduncle. Ovary field styles united below into a short often thickened 
all n to the ovary. Leaves peltate and often lobed.— The species are 
all very imperfectly known. (See also M. trichocarpa.) 
18. M. Kingii, Hook. f.. uite glabrous, leaves very large rather 
bam branons broadly peltate palnatinerved 5-lobed eglandular beneath, 
t © rounded and sinuatel y angled, lobes ovate-lanceolate acuminate sinuate- 
Sothed midlobe much the longest, fruiting racemes very short shortly 
and very stoutly peduncled, capsules large depressed slightly 4—5-lcbed 
m stigmas 4—5 slender erect combined at the base. 
^LAY PENINSULA; Jaffaria at Johore, King's Collector. _ 
the] small tree ; branches glaucous, smooth, fistular. Leaf 20 in. long by 24 across 
la ateral lobes, above smooth, eglandular on both surfaces, greenish when dry, longer 
teral lobes 10 by 3 in., midlobe 12 by 5 in., 9-nerved from the base, with 12-15 pair 
