7P EnpJlorbiacecr. \Macaranga. 



Lower montane zone ; rare. Deltota ; Knuckles Mts. Fl. May and 

 September. 



Also in Andaman Is. 



Dries a dark brown. The Ceylon materials for this species are 

 imperfect. 



36. »ZACARANCA,^ Thoiiars. 



Large or small trees; 1. alt., peltate, glandular beneath; 



fl. usually dioecious, apetalous, in axillary racemes or branched 



panicles, male many, minute, fern, one or few under each 



bract ; bracts entire or toothed ; male fl. : — sep. 3-4, valvate in 



bud; stam. 2-14, fil. distinct, anth. 3-4-locellate; pistillodeo; 



fl. fem.: — cal. 2-4-lobed or toothed or spathaceous; ov. 1-6- 



celled, cells with one ovule, styles entire ; capsule small, of 



1-5 2-valved cocci, often glandular or with a waxy coat ; 



seeds globose, testa crustaceous, endosperm fleshy, cotyledons 



broad. — Sp. 80; 24 in FL B. Ind. 



Bracts minute, stam. 3-8 i. M. INDICA. 



Bracts broad, toothed, stam. 2-5 . . . .2. M. tomentOSA. 

 Bracts minute, stam. 10-14 3- M. digyna. 



1. M. indica, Wight, Ic. v. 2, 23 (1852). Vattakannl, T. 



Thw. Enum. 428. C. P. 3795. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 446. Wight, Ic. t. 1883 and 1949, f. 2. 



A large tree; branchlets stout, glaucous, marked with leaf- 

 scars; young parts with rusty deciduous tomentum ; 1. 7-10 in., 

 peltate, ovate-orbicular, acute, glabrous above, pubescent and 

 thickly covered with minute dark glands beneath; petiole 

 longer than 1., cylindrical, glaucous ; stip. ovate, acuminate, 

 caducous ; male panicles narrow, fulvous-pubescent ; bracts 

 minute, with a large glandular appendage ; fem. panicles 

 larger, fl. on long divaricate ped. ; male fl. : — stam. 3-8; fem. 

 fl. : — ov. usually 2-celled, styles 2, subulate, recurved; fr. very 

 small, under \ in., of 2 globose glandular cocci. 



Low country, and up to 4000 ft.; common. Fl. April. 

 S. India, E. Bengal, Andaman Is. 



2. Bf . tomentosa, Wight, Ic. v. 2, 23 (1852). Kenda, Pat- 

 kenda, S. 



Riciiius Mappa, Moon, Cat. 65 (non L.) Thw. Enum. 274. Muell. 

 Arg. in DC. 1. c. 1010. M. Roxbinghii, Wight, Ic. C. P. 2 171. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 448 {M. Roxbur^hii). Wight Ic. t. 817 {Mappa peltaia), 

 and 1949, f. I. Bcdd. Fl. Sylv. t. 287. 



A small tree ; branchlets very stout, green with glaucous 

 bloom, when young marked with large leaf- and stip.-scars; 



■* Madagascar name (.''). 



