Tas. 7407. 
MACARANGA Porreana. 
Native of the Philippine Islands. 
Nat. Ord. EvpHorprackzZ.—Tribe Crotoneas, — 
Genus Macaranea, Thou. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 320.) 
Macaranea (Eumacaranga) Porteana; caule erecto cylindraceo cicatricato, 
foliis amplis longe petiolatis peltatis orbiculari-ovatis acutis calloso- 
crenulatis ciliolatis supra lete viridibus nervis aureis, immaturis supra 
araneosis, subtus rufescentibus puberulis costa nervisque validis viridi- 
bus, nervulis transversis perplurimis elevatis rubris, stipulis maximis 
oblongis erectis cymbiformibus pallide flavo-virescentibus, paniculis 
axillaribus petiolo brevioribus breviter pedunculatis roseis hic illic folii- 
feris, bracteis primariis (basi ramorum inferiorum) pollicaribus ovato- 
lanceolatis acutis, superioribus linearibus, floralibus parvis cymbiformibus 
incurvis, bracteolis linearibus incurvis obtusis, floribus minutis sessilibus, 
masculis perplurimis polyandris, femineis hermaphroditisve ad apices 
ramulorum raris, perianthii segmentis ovatis, staminibus confertis, 
antheris 4-lobis, ovario oblongo, stylis 2 elongatis subulatis stigmatosis. 
M. Porteana, #. Andr? in Rev. Hortic. (1888), p. 176, fig. 36. 
Mappa Porteana, Hort. ex W. Wats. in Gard. Chron, (1894), vol. ii. p. 284, 
cum Ic. et Suppl. (1894) Sept, 8th. 
As grown in a large pot standing in the tank of the 
Victoria House at Kew, this forms one of the most 
stately attractions of the many noble plants that sur- 
round it. From a stout erect stem four-and-a-half feet 
high, clothed above with the large erect, pale stipules, 
are given off long bold, bright green petioles, two to three 
feet long, supporting peltate leaves, nearly three feet 
broad, of a lustrous dark satin green colour above, traversed 
by golden nerves ; beneath the young leaves are of a rusty- 
red hue, beautifully reticulate, with strong green nerves, 
and innumerable transverse parallel red nervules; the 
older leaves are uniformly pale green beneath. The in- 
florescence, consisting of axillary panicles, is of pale red, 
insignificant flowers. ae 
Macaranga is a large tropical genus, consisting of — 
upwards of eighty species, confined to the old world, 
and chiefly Malayan. M. Porteana was discovered in the 
Philippine Islands by M. Marius Porté, a French Botanist, 
APRIL Ist, 1895. : 
