JMacaranga.] CXXXV. EvPHORBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 453 
ovate-lanceolate from a rounded peltate base entire caudate-acuminate 
sinuate-dentate minutely glandular beneath, fem. fl. few capitate on an axil- 
lary short very stout peduncle, ovary 4—5-celled, styles 5 short acute connate 
into a subglobose base, capsule depressed, cocci produced into conical horns. 
Perak, King’s Collector. : 
A small tree; branchlets as thick as a goose-quill, terete, hollow, glabrous or with 
a few scattered hairs. Leaves 5-7 by 2-3 in., broadest opposite the insertion of the 
petiole, thinly coriaceous, above rather shining and reticulate, eglandular at the 
7-nerved base, beneath opaque, paler, with 8-10 pairs of slender nerves above the 
basal and slender cross-nervules ; petiole 3-4 in., very slender; stipules not seen. 
Peduncle of fem. fl. 1 in., very stout; calyx 4-lobed. Capsules bluish, 4-3 in. diam., 
hemispheric below, horns glandular. 
Series III. Male and fem. fl. racemose, or fem. subsolitary. Styles very 
long and slender. Leaves narrow, not peltate. 
22. M. digyna, Muell. Arg. in DO. Prodr. xv. ii. 1007; nearly 
glabrous, leaves long-petioled elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate from a rounded 
base caudate-acuminate obscurely crenulate copiously glandular beneath, 
racemes very slender, bracts of male very minute, stamens 10-12, capsules 
racemose compressed didymous. Beddome Forester’s Man. 211. Rottlera 
digyna, Thwaites Enum. 973. Mappa digyna, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 
198. Claoxylon digynum, Wight £c. t. 1884. 
CEYLON ; at Caltura, &c., Moon, Walker, &c. z . 
A small tree; branchlets slender, terete, smooth, tips glandular. Leaves 5-8 by 
1}-2 in., thinly coriaceous, shortly triple-nerved and 2-glandular at the very base above; 
nerves 8-15 pair above the basal, very slender; petiole 1-3 in., very slender ; stipules 
on the terminal buds only 4 in., needle-shaped. Male racemes 3-4 in., quite simple; 
bracts subulate or 0; male fl, 3; in. diam., buds globose ; sepals 3, orbicular, glan- 
dular. Fem. racemes longer ; sepals 4, very unequal ; stigmas filiform, $ in. long. 
Capsules 3 in. diam.; cocci quite smooth, thinly crustaceous. Seeds globose, brown, 
shining. i 
23. M. Lowii, King in Herb. Calcutt.; glabrous except the inflo- 
rescence, leaves long-petioled elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate acuminate (some- 
times obtusely) coriaceous penninerved minutely glandular beneath, male 
racemes sessile slender pubescent, bracts small concave, stamens 15-20, cap- 
sules 1-3 terminating a long peduncle with a foliaceous bract didymous 
*pinous.— Wall. Cat. 7996 (flowers monstrous) and 9100. 
PEnana, Wallich; on Goot Hill, Curtis. PERAK, King’s Collector. SINGA- 
PORE, Cantley, . Leaves 
A small tree; branches woody, terete, glabrous or nearly so to the aps ee 
-7 by 1-2 in., pale when dry, and rather shining above, margins with o oseur ves 
tant glands, tips long or short, cordate at the very narrow 2.glandular base; x lea 
2-14 pair, very slender, cross-nervules faint ; petiole 1-3 in., very slender ; § pe ‘ts 
rigid, subulate, 3 in. long. Male racemes sometimes as long as the leaves ; rats 
tomentose, shorter than the flowers, concave, acute; flowers 45-1 in. diam., g E. et 
and hispidulous ; sepals orbicular. Peduncle of fem. fl. 2-3 in., stout, st! eec 
Pubescent ; flowers 1-9 near the end of the peduncle; bract j in. long and, brow . 
orbicular, toothed, acute ; sepals 6, lanceolate ; ovary spinous ; styles Jong, re 
Capsules 1-$ in diam., puberulous; cocci globose, thickly crustaceous. Seeds globose, 
; ; mel 
rown, polished.— The Singapore plant is not in a good state, the stipules are extreme!y 
slender, 
24. M. Brandisii, King in Herb. Calcutt.; glabrous, leaves shortly 
