Maesobotrya. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEA (HUTCHINSON). 663 
27. MASSOBOTRYA, Benth.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 284. 
Flowers diccious. Petals absent. Male flowers: Calyx 5-fid or 
5- (rarely 4-) partite, imbricate. Disk-glands 5, alternating with the 
filaments, large and fleshy, often contiguous. Stamens 5 (rarely re- 
duced to 4), opposite the calyx-lobes; filaments free; anthers erect ; 
cells parallel, contiguous or distinct, dehiscing longitudinally. Rudi- 
mentary ovary columnar or .obconic, fleshy, usually hairy. Female 
flowers: Calyx as in the male. Disk hypogynous, cupular, clasping the 
base of the ovary, entire and often ciliolate. Ovary 2—4-celled; styles 
short, small, bitid, slightly recurved, glabrous; ovules 2 in each cell. 
Fruits subylobose or ellipsoid, loculicidal, mostly 1-seeded by abortion ; 
pericarp thin and membranous. Seeds (where known) ellipsoid ; testa 
thin; cotyledons green, broad and flat; albumen scanty.—Trees or 
shrubs, rarely climbers. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire or repand- 
dentate or denticulate, penninerved. Stipules usually deciduous, subu- 
late or faleate. Flowers racemose or subspicate, axillary or produced in 
clusters on the old wood, each flower subtended by a solitary bract, 
Species about 12, endemic. 
Stipules foliaceous, falcate, persistent or subpersistent. 
Leaves obscurely setulose-denticulate, midrib and late- 
ral nerves setulose below; stipules about 7 lin. long 
and 4lin. broad. : : : : : - 1. UM. Dusenii. 
Leaves distinctly repand-denticulate, teeth without 
sete, midrib and lateral nerves glabrous below ; 
stipules about 3 lin. long and 1} lin. broad. . 2. M. bertramiana. 
Stipules small, neither foliaceous nor falcate, soon falling 
off. 
Inflorescences axillary, produced on or towards the base 
of the young leafy branchlets. 
Leaves distinctly repand-denticulate or dentate. 
Ovary glabrous. 
Petioles rather stout, 3-1} in. long, not pulvi- 
nate at the apex; infructescence slender, : 
3-4 in. long, bearing numerous fruits . 8. ML. floribunda. 
Petioles slender, 1-2 in. long, slightly pulvinate 
at the apex ; infructescence 24-3} in. long, 
bearing not more than about 15 fruits . 4. UM. sparsiflora. 
Ovary setulose or densely pilose below. 
Leaves setulose or pilose on the midrib and 
lateral nerves below; ovary densely pilose . 10. MU. Barteri. 
Leaves almost glabrous on the midrib and lateral 
nerves below; ovary sparingly setulose . 5. MU. hirtella. 
Leaves entire. 
Ovary glabrous . ; ; . . . 6. UW. paucifiora. 
Ovary tomentose or sparingly setulose. 
Leaves elliptic or obovate-elliptic ; ovary densely . 
white-tomentose z : : ‘ . 7. M. bipindensis. 
Leaves oblong; ovary sparingly setulose . . 8. M. oblonga. 
Inflorescences produced in fascicles on the old wood of 
the stem or on the old leafless branches of several 
years’ growth. 
