Macaranga. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEH (PRAIN). 941 
17. M. Dawei, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 232. A small tree; 
branches puberulous. Leaves short-petioled, lanceolate or oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, base wide-cuneate or rounded, margin shortly but 
distinctly and irregularly toothed or occasionally subentire, 24-4 in. 
long, $-1 in. wide, chartaceous, glabrous, glandular-lepidote beneath ; 
petiole 4-4 in. long, puberulous; stipules lanceolate, } in. long or less, 
rusty-puberulous, caducous. Male flowers in small lateral spikes +~} in. 
long; bracts small, ovate, acute, entire, subtending several flowers ; 
buds globose, minute, pubescent. Stamens 5-12; filaments united 
irregularly below, free above. Female flowers unknown. 
Nile Land. Uganda: by the Mubuka River, on the lower slopes of Ruwen- 
zori, Dawe, 595! 
A very distinct species; in all other respects a Macaranga, but with stamens 
resembling those of a Homonoia. 
18. M. pierreana, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 105. A shrub or 
tree; branches quite glabrous. Leaves long-petioled, ovate, shortly 
acuminate, base rounded, margin entire, 6 in. long, 4 in. wide, glabrous 
except on the nerves, gland-dotted beneath; petiole 5-6 in. long; 
stipules caducous. Male flowers in small ovate strobiliform heads termi- 
nating the branches of a long lax axillary panicle; bracts obovate, sub- 
acute, entire, subtending several flowers; buds globose. Female flowers 
in large axillary panicles. Capsule globose, 1-coccous ; pedicels long. 
Lower Guinea. (Gaboon: Sierra del Crystal, Klaine! near Libreville, 
Klaine, 1151! 
19. M. Poggei, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 94, A tree or shrub ; 
branches at first fulvous-pubescent. L-aves long-petioled, ovate, shortly 
acuminate, base rounded or subtruncate, margin entire, 4-6 in. long, 
2-3 in. wide, glabrous except on the nerves beneath, gland—dotted 
beneath; petiole 3-4 in. long; stipules caducous. Male flowers in 
short axillary panicles; bracts ovate-oblong, acuminate, incised-toothed, 
subtending several flowers; buds globose. Female flowers in axillary 
corymbose simple or sparingly branched racemes; bracts as in the 
males, Calyx minute, lobed. Capsule globose or subdidymous ; 
pedicels very long.—Durand & Schinz, Etudes FI. Congo, 246; Th. & 
Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 496. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Mukenge, Pogge, 1387! 
Var. Chevalieri, Prain. WLeaf-base subcordate.—M. Chevalieri, Beille in Bull. 
Soe. Bot. France, lvii. Mém. viii. 125. 
Lower Guinea. French Congo: Brazzaville, Chevalier, 11100! 
20. M. Gilletii, De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 276, 
#73. A tree or perhaps a shrub; branches armed with spines, at first 
pubescent, at length glabrous. . Leaves petioled, elliptic-ovate, rather 
ong-acuminate, base rounded or faintly subcordate, margin entire, 
3-43 in. long, nearly as wide, glabrous except on the nerves on both 
Surfaces; petiole 4-13 in. long ; stipules lanceolate, caducous. Male 
flowers in rather lax fascicled axillary panicles; bracts concave, wide- 
