Macaranga. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACE& (PRAIN). 943 
apical glands ; stipules small, rigid, recurved. Male flowers in axillary 
peduncled spikes; bracts closely imbricating, strongly keeled, entire, 
rather thick, subtending several flowers. Female flowers unknown. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Ituri district; between Mawambi and 
Awakubi, Mildbraed, 3118! 
25. M. mellifera, Prain in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 201. A tree of 
medium size with wide branching crown; twigs rather stout, sparingly 
puberulous, soon becoming glabrous. Leaves long-petioled, ovate or 
oblong, sharply acuminate, base widely and abruptly cuneate or rounded, 
margin entire, 4-44 in. long, 24-3 in. wide, subcoriaceous, glabrous 
above, copiously gland-dotted beneath and glabrous except on the lower 
third to one-half of the 3 basal nerves, which are densely hirsute with 
spreading hairs; petiole 2 in. long; stipules rather wide-lanceolate, 
caducous, puberulous. Male flowers in axillary panicles towards the 
end of the branches, honey-scented ; bracts small, ovate, acute, entire, 
subtending several flowers. Stamens 15; filaments inserted on a long 
narrow receptacle, so that the andreecium simulates a central column. 
Female flowers in axillary racemes; bracts as in the males; pedicels 
solitary or in few-flowered clusters. Ovary 1-celled by abortion, crowned 
by a single stout style-arm spreading at the base, erect at the tip, and 
with the rudimentary style-arm adnate to the opposite side of the coccus 
lower down, densely lepidote. Fruit unknown. 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Buchanan, 1483! 
Rhodesia ; Chirinda outskirts, 3700-4000 ft., Swynnerton, 5! 2120! 
26. M. gabunica, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 104. A climbing 
shrub with long, spreading or pendulous branches at first sparingly rusty- 
puberulous, soon glabrous, unarmed. Leaves long-petioled, triangulay- 
ovate, abruptly long-acuminate, base wide-truncate, margin entire, 
4-43 in. long, 34~4 in. wide, coriaceous, pale green and glabrous above, 
slightly rusty-puberulous on the nerves only and gland-dotted beneath ; 
petiole 2-23 in. long; stipules caducous. Male flowers in small axillary 
panicles ; their branches very short ; bracts small, densely rusty-puberu- 
lous, subtending several flowers; stamens 2-3. Female flowers in smal] 
axillary panicles; bracts as inthe males. Calyx urceolate, margin very 
slightly undulate. Capsule 1-coccous, 1-seeded, subglobose, densely 
Trusty-puberulous, 2-valved, tipped by the remains of the slightly 
eccentric style, } in. in diam. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: near Libreville, Klaine, 642! 643! 1152! 
1153! French Congo: Niounerou, Lecomte, C9! 
27. M. klaineana, Pierre ex Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 104. 
climbing shrub; branches sparingly armed with minute spines, 
tusty-puberulous. Leaves petioled, ovate or elliptic, very long-acumi- 
nate with acute tips, base rounded, margin entire, 13-3 in. long, 
glabrous above, sparingly rusty-puberulous on the nerves and gland- 
dotted beneath ; petiole rusty-puberulous, 4-1 in. long; stipules linear, 
Tusty-puberulous, persistent, 4-} in. long. Male flowers in axillary 
