Macaranga. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEE (PRATIN). 939) 
ll. M. Staudtii, Paz in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 526~ A tree or shrub; 
branches stout, glabrous. Leaves long-petioled, wide-oblong, acute, 
narrowed gradually to the small rounded base, margin shallowly repand, 
6-7 in. long, 4-5 in. wide, subcoriaceous, glabrous above, slightly pubes- 
cent and gland-dotted beneath, with a pair of marginal glandular pro- 
cesses at the junction with the petiole; petiole 2-3 in. long; stipules 
caducous. Male flowers in axillary panicles; bracts large, suborbicular, 
entire; buds small, globose, tomentose. Female flowers unknown. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Yaunde, Zenker & Staudt, 324! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Libreville, A/aine, 692! 
Though very different in shape of leaf, the natural position of this species is in the 
vicinity of WM. rosea and M. Schweinfurthii. 
12, M. Beillei, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 239. A shrub or 
small tree ; branches glabrous. Leaves long-petioled, ovate, acuminate, 
base rounded or faintly subcordate, margin slightly toothed, 4-6 in. long, 
3-4 in. wide, membranous, glabrous or nearly so; petiole 3-4 in. long ; 
stipules lanceolate, 1 in. long, persisting. Male flowers in rather lax 
lateral panicles; bracts ovate, deeply laciniate, subtending several 
flowers; buds globose, minute, puberulous. Stamens 2. Female 
flowers unknown. 
Upper Guinea. Ivory Coast: Bingerville district; between Abidjean and 
Dabou, Chevalier, 15551 ! 
Lower Guinea. French Congo: Kitobi, Lecomte, A89! 
13. M. Paxii, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 127. A shrub or 
small tree; branches sparingly armed with spines, glabrous. Leaves 
long-petioled, ovate, long-acuminate, base rounded, margin deeply and 
distantly toothed, 4—8 in. long, 3-4 in. wide, membranous, pubescent 
on the nerves when young especially beneath, ultimately glabrous 
except for a few long white hairs on the nerves beneath ; petiole 3—4 in. 
long ; stipules ovate, acute, with ciliate margins, over 1 in. long. Male 
flowers in rather lax lateral panicles ; bracts suborbicular, obtuse, deep 
crenate, subtending several flowers ; buds globose, minute, puberulous. 
Stamens 2, occasionally 1. Female flowers unknown. 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Oban, Talbot, 610! Cameroons: Yaunde, 
Zenker ¥ Staudt, 106! Zenker, 648! 
14. M. togoensis, Paz in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 221. A tree or shrub, 
Sometimes subscandent; branches armed with spines, at first white- 
pubescent, at length glabrous. Leaves long-petioled, ovate-oblong, 
Shortly acuminate ; base truncate, margin irregularly and undulately 
or erosely toothed, 5-7 in. long, nearly as wide, firmly membranous, 
dull, nearly glabrous above, with more persistent rather long white 
airs on the nerves and gland-dotted beneath ; petiole 3-7 in. long; 
Stipules lanceolate, under i in. long, eaducous. Male flowers in short 
axillary fascicled racemes or panicles; bracts subconcave, orbicular, 
laciniate, subtending numerous flowers. Stamens 2, exserted. Female 
flowers in rather lax lateral panicles. Capsule pisiform, clothed with 
