486 EUPiiouBiACE.E (Praia). [Macaranga, 



tootlieclj ultimately wide cupular or obliquely spatliaceous, rarely 

 splitting into 2-3 lobes. Ovary 2-3- (rarely 4-6-) celled, sometimes 

 by abortion 1 -celled ; ovules solitary in each cell ; styles short, stout, 

 entire, free or slightly connate at the base. Capsule 2- to several- 

 (rarely 1-) coccous; cocci 2-valved. Seeds globose; testa crusta- 

 ceous ; albumen flesliy ; cotyledons broad, flat. 



Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate, petioled, simple or lobod, usually 3-7-nerved 

 from the base, often glandular-punctate beneath ; racemes or spikes lateral or 

 forming a terminal thjTSoid panicle ; male flowers glonierulate, several to a bract ; 

 females solitary to their bracts ; bracts entire or toothed or fimbriated, 



DrsTRiB. Species about 100, sj^read throughout the tropics of the Old World. 



!• M. capensis (Benth, in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, iii. 320); 

 a dio3cious tree 20-30 ft, high ; trunk 1-2 ft. thick ; twigs rusty- 

 toruentosc; leaves long-petioled, coriaceous, orbicular-ovate, rather 

 abruptly acuminate, base rounded with a minute notch at the point 

 of junction with the petiole, or sometimes there narrowly peltate, 

 margin entire or very shortly denticulate, 3-6 (rarely in young' 

 plants up to 12) in. long, 3-4 (rarely in young plants up to 8) in. 

 wide, 3~5-nerved from the base, pinnately nerved with 7-9 secondary^ 

 nerves on each side of the median nerve beyond the base, the nerves 

 all raised beneath, dark green, glabrous above or when young rusty- 

 puberulous on the nerves only, beneath rusty-puberulous, but soon 

 glabrescent and copiously gland-dotted throughout, with the lower 

 two-thirds of the median nerves and the lower portion of the 

 secondary nerves rather copiously pubescent with spreading long 

 hairs; petiole glabrous, 2-5 in. long; stipules oblong-lanceolate,, 

 copiously rusty-puberulous, | in. loiig, soon deciduous • flowers in 

 lax axillary panicles, male up to 3 in. long, 2 in. across, female up 

 to 2 in. long, 1^ in. across; bracts in both sexes lanceolate, reflexed, 

 entire or sparingly toothed, densely rusty pubescent ; male flowers 

 sessile, several to each bract ; calyx 2-3-lobed, rusty-pubescent ; 

 stamens 2-3, at first 4-celled, \vhen fully developed 2-celled ; female 

 flow^ers very shortly pedicelled, solitary to their bracts ; calyx 

 distinctly 2-3-fid ; lobes ovate, acute, rusty-pubescent ; ovary 

 glabrous, with a resinous or waxy covering, 2-ceIIed wnth 2 bhort 

 free styles or as frequently by abortion 1 -celled with a slightly 

 excentric apical style and sometimes a minute rudimentary lateral 

 style lower down ; capsule small, viscous, globose, \ in. across ; 

 valves coriaceous, very tardily dehiscent ; seed globose. Sim, For, 

 FL Cape Col. 314, t. 139. M. Bachuanni, Pax in Emjl Jahrh 



xxiii. 525. 3Iappa capensis, Baill, tud. Gen. Euphorh, 430 {sphalm^ 

 Adenoceras), and Adansonia, iii. 155 ; E. Meyer ex Harv, Gen. 5. 



A/r, PL ed, 2, 338, 3Iallotas capensis, MiilL Arg, in Linnsea^ 



189, and in DC, Prodr, xv. ii. 966. Urticacea, 4612, Dregc, Ztcei 



Pjl. Documented 155. 



Eastern Region : Pondoland ; between Uratentu River find Umzimkulu River, 

 Drhfft, 4612 ! Port St. John, Devils Peak, 800 ft., and banks of St. Johns Ri^■er, 

 20 ft., Galpin, 3444 1 St. Jokns up to 1500 ft., Btm, 2417! Bachmann, 774 1 



