454 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) [Macaranga. 
etioled elliptic-lanceolate acuminate or caudate penninerved with scattered 
Plack glands beneath, fem. bracts large leafy, capsules didymous glandular 
smooth or with a few soft prickles. 
TENASSERIM, on Moolyet, alt. 2-6000 ft., Beddome, Gallatly. thint 
A tree, 20 ft. ; branchlets slender, woody, terete, tips glandular. Leaves. ul 
coriaceous, 4-6 by 1-2 in. margins eglandular, base acute or rounded minute y 
cordate eglandular; nerves 8-10 pairs, very slender; petiole 3-1 in., slender, 9 der 
viscid; stipules minute, setaceous. Peduncles of fem. fl. 2—4 in., VY AT at les 
1-2-fld., erect, leafy ; bracts 4-1} in., broadly ovate to lanceolate ; sepals 4; s ther 
filiform, about as long as the cocci. Capsule j-2 in. diam.; cocci globose, ra 
compressed, crustaceous. Seeds globose, smooth, brown. 
IMPERFECTLY KNOWN, DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
M. DEPRESSA, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 989, is a Javan and Borneatt 
plant; Ceylon is given as a locality to a specimen in Thunberg’s Herbariu 
Upsala, but there is no confirmation of it. 
M. INVOLUCRATA, Muell. Arg.l.c. 1011, from Bengal (Leschenhault), tine 
doubt a garden plant, and is Wallich’s No. 4621 from the Calcutta Garden. 1 bel 
it to be a native of the Moluccas. 
M.sr.? Chittagong (Hook. f. 4 T., Clarke); a small tree, branches o 
glaucous quite glabrous, leaves narrowly peltate ovate acuminate glaucous bene 
base rounded eglandular, nerves 8-10 pair very slender, petiole as long as the 
blade. 
M. MEMBRANACEA, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 889 ; an erect subsimple shrub, leaves long- 
petioled membran ous hardly peltate entire and ovate lanceolute caudate acumina vel 
broadly ovate and entire or with 2-3 caudate lobes minutely gland-dotted, mars or 
minutely toothed above minutely scaberulous beneath pubescent, base cunea 1 3 
truncate, nerves very slender, petiole 2-3 in. very slender, male fl. unknown, fem. " l 
sepals at the top of a slender peduncle with a lacerate puberulous leafy br act fort 
urceolate. embracing the style base, ovary hirsute and glandular, styles żin. i * red 
glabrous, capsule 2-coccous 2-lobed, cocci size of a small pea powdered with ica 
glands and loosely covered with filiform flexuous smooth bristles, seeds Spb nan 
brown smooth glabrous.—Pegu, Ava and Martaban, alt. 4—6000 ft., Kurz. žute» 
J. Anderson.—1 am indebted to Dr. King for specimens. 
M. JAVANICA, var. montana, Wawra, Bot. It. Pr. Sax. Cob. 48.—I am unable to 
identify this. 
57. PTYCHOPYXIS, Miquel. 
A tree with densely tomentose very stout branchlets petioles and info- 
rescence; hairs simple. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branchie’, 
alternate, very coriaceous, oblanceolate, acuminate, entire, penninerve i 
petiole very short. Flowers axillary, dioecious ?, crowded and BUTTO ate 
with densely tomentose thick lanceolate bracts; males spicate, fem. cap! ery 
Mate ru. Sepals 4-5, subequal, thick, valvate. Disk 0. Stamens V his 
numerous, in a globose head on a convex hairy receptacle; flame 4 
flexuous, filiform, with subulate tips; anthers broadly oblong, flat, c uced 
1n superposed pairs on each side of the broad connective, which is P blong 
beyond them into a broad acute triangular point, two upper celis © lly ; 
two lower much smaller, testicular, slits of all introrse longitu “hic » 
polen very minute. Pistillode 0. Fem. FL. Sepals 6, lanceolate, le vil- 
unequal or subequal, persistent. Ovary 3-celled, and elongate ee idly 
lously tomentose; stigmas or style-arms 3; short, recurved, entire, hisp 
