CXV. EUPHORBIACEJ5. 619 



2-celled and 4-valved, or 3-celled and 3-valved. Pistillode 0. Pemale 

 FLOWEKS : Calyx 2-4-lobed. Petals 0. Disk 0. Ovary 2-6 (rarely by 

 abortion l)-celled ; ovule 1 iu each cell ; styles entire, short or loug. 

 Fruit a small capsule of 1-5 naked or echinate 2-valved cocci, often 

 glandular or with a waxy coat. Seeds globose ; testa crustaceous or 

 bony ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. — Distrib. Tropics of the 

 Old World ; species about 80. 



1. Macaranga tomentosa, Wi.;/ht, Icon. v. 5, part 2 (1852) p. 23 

 & iu V. 6, t. 1949, fig. 1. A small or middle-sized tree ; bark dark- 

 grey ; bi'auclilets stout ; young shoots tomentose. Leaves 5-8 by 

 3^-5 J in., ovate or deltoid-ovate, or orbicular, cuspidate, broadly peltate, 

 entire or minutely toothed, glabrous or nearly so above, more or less 

 pubescent and closely gland-dotted beneath, base rounded; basal nerves 

 numerous and with 6-8 pairs of strong nerves above the basal ones, 

 with reticulate venation between; petioles 3-6 in. long ; stipules ovate, 

 acuminate, reflexed, caducous. Male flowers minute, gL in. in diam., 

 numerous, iu interrupted dense sessile heads, enveloped in bracts and 

 bracteoles, arranged in numerous much-branched axillai-y rusty-tomentose 

 panicles shorter or longer than the leaves ; bracts broader than long, 

 toothed, veined ; bracteoles concave. Sepals 3, minute, obovate, cuneate. 

 Stamens 2-3. Female flowers : Panicles simpler than in the male, 

 the branches racenios<; with larger bracts. Calyx-limb obsolete. Ovary 

 densely glandular, 1-celled ; stigma sessile, often embracing one side of 

 the ovary, thickly papillose. Capsules |-g in. in diam., globose, hairy 

 and glandular. Seed globose ; testa brown, crustaceous, rough. Bedd. 

 Flor. Svlvat. t. 287 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 70. Macaranga Rox- 

 burghii,' Wight, Icon. v. 5, part 2 (1852) p. 23 & in v. 6, t. 1949, fig. 4 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 228; Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 448; Talb. Trees, 

 Bomb. ed. 2, p. 317; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 372 ; Watt, Diet. Ecou. Prod. v. 5, p. 103. 31. peltata, Muell. Arg. 

 in DC. Prodr. v. 15 (1865) p. 1010 ; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. 

 p. ccxi ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 951. Osyris peltata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 3 

 (1832) p. 755 ; Grrah. Cat. p. 177. — Flowers : Jan. -Mar. Vern. 

 Chdnda ; Chancldda. 



KoNKAN : Bahc/l tf Gihsuii ; moist forests, Talbot ; Matheran, Cooke !, H. M. Bird- 

 wood, Woodrow ! Deccan : Kbaudala, Graham, C'ooJce ! ; Parghat, Graham ; Thai 

 Ghat, Graham. — Distrib. India (hills of Orissa and the Circars, W. Peninsula) ; 

 Oeylon. 



Excluded Species. 



MACATlANGA INDICA, Wight, Icon. v. 5, part 2 (1852) p. 23, t. 1883 & t. 1949, 

 fig. 2. A large tree ; branohlets very robust, glaucous ; young shoots tawny-tonientose. 

 Leaves 5-10 in. in diaiu., orbicular-ovate, acuminate, broadly peltate ; petioles 

 longer than the leaves. Male flowers in narrow fulvous-pubescent panicles ; bracts 

 minute, with a large glandular appendage. Sepals 2-3. Stamens 3-10. Female 

 FLOWEUS : Panicles hairy. Sepals usually 4. Ovary 1-2-celIed. Capsules small, 

 \ in. in diam. Fl. B. 1. v. 5, p. 446; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 70; Talb. Trees, 

 Bomb. ed. 2, p. 317. 



This is given in the 'Flora of British India' as occurring on the Western Ghats, but 

 it has not been found in the Bombay Presidency though occurring on the Nilghiris 

 and other hills in the southern portion of the Peninsula. Talbot (/. c.) says that it 

 does not to his knowledge occur in N. Kanara. 



