EUPHORBIACEAE 995 
ovate to broadly ovate, 5 to, 16 cm long, base broad, rounded or slightly 
cordate, 3-nerved, apex somewhat acuminate, margins entire or somewhat 
repand, the lower surface with numerous, small, pale-yellow, waxy glands. 
Male inflorescence axillary, racemose, solitary, 6 to 18 cm long, the flowers 
fascicled, ebracteolate, pale-yellow. Capsules depressed-globose, about 
1.2 cm in diameter, densely pale-stellate-puberulent, and with scattered, 
soft, pubescent, spine-like processes or papillae which do not form a con- 
tinuous covering. (Fl. Filip. pl. 381, Adelia papillaris.) 
In dry thickets, Guadalupe and opposite San Pedro Macati. fl. May 
and probably in other months; of local occurrence in Luzon. Endemic. 
17. MACARANGA Thouars | 
Trees or shrubs with ample, alternate, entire or lobed, often peltate 
leaves which are glandular beneath, 3- to 5-nerved from the base. Flowers 
apetalous, small, usually dioecious, in axillary racemes or in panicles, 
the males many, clustered, the females one or few to each bract; bracts 
often large, entire or toothed. Male flowers: Calyx globose, with 3 or 
4 valvate sepals. Stamens usually many, central; anthers 3- or 4-celled. 
Female flowers: Calyx 2- to 4-lobed or toothed. Ovary 1- to 6-celled; 
styles entire; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsules ‘of 1 to 5, 2-valved, naked 
or armed cocci, often waxy-glandular. (From the Madagascar name of 
one species.) _ 
Species more than 100, in the tropics of the Old World, 10 or more in 
the Philippines. 
Leaves less than 25 cm long; capsules waxy-glandulav........ 1. M. tanarius 
Leaves up to 1 m in length; capsules glabrous...................- 2. M. grandifolia 
1. M. tanarius (L.) Muell.-Arg. Binonga (Tag.). 
A small dioecious tree 4 to 8 m high, nearly glabrous or in the var. 
tomentosa Muell.-Arg. softly pubescent, the leaves peltate, ovate to oblong- 
ovate, 10 to 25 em long, entire or denticulate, base rounded, apex slenderly 
acuminate. Male flowers peduncled, slender, branched, shorter than the 
leaves, the bracts ovate, toothed or pectinate, 5 to 10 mm long, the flowers 
small, fascicled in the axils of the bracts. Female flowers in usually 
simple panicled spikes or racemes. Capsules 10 to 12 mm in diameter, 
of 2 or 8 cocci, covered with pale waxy glands, and with soft, scattered, 
elongated, spine-like processes. 
In thickets, Pasay, San Juan del Monte, etc., fl. Jan-—Apr.; common 
and widely distributed in the ak a Malay Peninsula and Archi- 
pelago. 
2. M. grandifolia (Blanco) Merr. (M. porteana E. André). Bingabing 
(Tag.). 
An erect, nearly glabrous or somewhat pubescent tree 5 to 10 m high 
with very large, peltate, orbicular-ovate to broadly-ovate, long-petioled 
leaves which are often reddish when young, 60 to 100 cm in diameter; 
stipules 6 to 10 cm long. Male flowers panicled, the bracts oblong to 
lanceolate, 3 to 5 cm long, the bracteoles entire, ovate to lanceolate, 
acuminate, 3 to 7 mm long, each subtending several small flowers. Cap- 
sules long-pedicelled, in dense globose masses, glabrous, 8 to 10 mm long, 
of 2 dehiscent, coriaceous cocci, each valve armed with 2 spine-like processes 
at the apex. 
Occasionally cultivated, Singalon, fl. Feb., and probably in other months; 
widely distributed in Luzon. Endemic. 
