944 CXXII, EUPHORBIACE (PRAIN). | Macaranga. 
panicles; bracts at the base of the branches small, those subtending 
clusters of flowers rather larger, ovate, entire; stamens 2-3. Female 
flowers in axillary panicles with branches shorter than the males; 
bracts as in the males, but the floral subtending solitary flowers. 
Ovary 1-celled, incurved; style lateral, ascending, incurved, echinate 
below. Capsule 1-coccous, 1-seeded, subglobose, bearing the more or 
less persistent lateral style, } in. in diam. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Libreville, Klaine, 239! 347! 1118! 6436! 
28. M. Pynezerti, De Wild. Htudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 283. 
A shrub or tree; branches armed with spines, at first pubescent with 
spreading hairs, at length glabrous. Leaves petioled, elliptic-ovate, 
rather long-acuminate with rounded apiculate tip, base rounded or 
slightly subcordate, margin entire, over 2 in. long, glabrous above, 
slightly pubescent on the nerves and gland-dotted beneath; petiole 
pubescent, 3-14 in. long; stipules caducous. Male flowers in axillary 
panicles; bracts at the base of the branches small, these subtending 
clusters of flowers very minute. Female flowers unknown.—Th. & 
Heél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 496. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Equatorial district; Eala, Pynaert. 
29. ME. spinosa, Mull. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 466. A shrub or 
tree, reaching +0 ft. in height; branches long, spreading or pendulous, 
armed with spines, sparsely pubescent. ‘Leaves long-petioled, oblong, 
acute, base rounded or slightly cordate, margin entire, 4—5 in. long, 
2-24 in. wide, subcoriaceous, slightly pubescent on both surfaces, 
copiously gland-dotted beneath; petiole 1-1? in. long; stipules linear- 
lanceolate. Male flowers in small axillary panicles; bracts minute, 
ovate, subtending several flowers; stamens 2-3. Female flowers in 
small axillary panicles; bracts as in males. Calyx urceolate, truncate. 
Stigmas densely papillose—DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1013; Hiern in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. i. 982. MM. ledermanniana, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii, 222. 
Tanarius spinosus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 620. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Yaunde, Zenker, 1407! Nkolebunde, 650 ft., 
Ledermann, 807! Fernando Po, Mann, 1160! 
Lower Guinea. French Congo: Kitobi, Lecomte, B13! Spanish Guinea : 
Fang district, Z’essmann, 5, partly! Angola: Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 447! 448! 
Cazengo; near Monte Bello, Gossweiler, 690! 
30. M. inopinata, Prain. A tree; branches rusty-pubescent. 
Leaves petioled, elliptic-ovate, somewhat acuminate, base truncate, 
margin entire, 23-4 in. long, 13-22 in. wide, glabrous and somewhat 
shining above, glabrous, dull and closely gland-dotted beneath ; petiole 
1}-2 in, long; stipules large, ovate-lanceolate, rusty-pubescent on both 
sides, $ in. long. Male flowers in large lateral panicles 4-5 in. long, 
their branches up to 2 in. Jong, rhachis and branches glabrous ; bracts 
rather small, ovate or spathulate, obtuse, entire, finely pubescent. 
Stamens 3. Female flowers and fruit unknown. 
Mozamb, Distr. German East Africa: Western Usambara, Kumba, Holst, 
3739! 
