Macaranga.] cxxir. EUPHORBiACEiE (praix). 93:9 



11. M. Staudtiiy Pax in EngL Jahrh, xxiii. 52&:— A tree or shrub ; 

 branches stout, glabrous. Leaves long-petioled, wide-oblong, acute, 

 narrowed gradually to the small rounded base, margin shallowly repand | 

 6-7 in. long, 4-5 in. wide, subcoriaceous, glabrous above, slightly pubes- 

 cent and gland-dotted beneath, with a pair of marginal glandular pro- 

 cesses at the junction with the petiole; petiole 2-3 in. long; stipules 

 caducous. Male flowers in axillary panicles ; bracts large, suborbicular, 

 entire ; buds small, globose, tomentose. Female flowers \mknown. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Yaunde, Zenker ^' Standi, 324 ! 

 Xiower Crulnea. Gaboon : Libreville, Klaine, 692 ! 



Though very difeerent in shape of leaf, the natural position of this species is in tlie 

 vicinity of M. rosea and M. Schtveinfurthii. 



12. M. Beilleiy Prain in Keiu Bulletin, 1910, 239. A shrub or 

 small tree ; branches glabrous. Leaves long-petioled, ovate, acuminate, 

 base rounded or faintly subcordate, margin slightly toothed, 4-G in. long, 

 3-4 in. wide, membranous, glabrous or nearly so ; petiole 3-4 in. long ; 

 stipules lanceolate, 1 in. long, persisting. Male flowers in rather lax 

 lateral panicles; bracts ovate, deeply laciniate, subtending several 

 flowers; buds globose, minute, puberulous. Stamens 2, Female 

 flowers unknown. 



Upper Guinea. Ivory Coast: Bingerville district; between Abidjean ar.d 

 Dabou, Chevalier, 15551 ! 



Xiower Guinea. French Congo : Kitobi, iecow^e, A 89 ! 



13. M. Paxiiy Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 127. A shrub or 

 small tree ; branches sparingly armed with spines, glabrous. Leaves 

 long-petioled, ovate, long-acuminate, base rounded, margin deeply and 

 distantly toothed, 4-8 in. long, 3-4 in. wide, membranous, pubescent 

 on the nerves when young especially beneath, ultimately glabrous 

 except for a few long white hairs on the nerves beneath ; petiole 3-4 in. 

 long ; stipules ovate, acute, with ciliate margins, over 1 in. long. Male 

 flowers in rather lax lateral panicles ; bracts suborbicular, obtuse, deep 

 crenate, subtending several flowers ; buds globose, minute, puberulous. 

 Stamens 2, occasionally 1. Female flowers unknown. 



Upper Guinea. Southern Nio^eria: Oban, Talbot, 610! Cameroons: Yaunde, 

 Zenker ^ Standi, 106 ! Zenker, 648 ! 



14. M. togoensis. Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xliii. 221. A tree or shrub, 

 sometimes subscandent ; branches armed with spines, at first white- 

 pubescent, at length glabrous. Leaves long-petioled, ovate-oblong, 

 shortly acuminate ; base truncate, margin irregularly and undulately 

 or erosely toothed, 5-7 in. long, nearly as wide, firmly membranous, 

 dull, nearly glabrous above, with more persistent rather long white 

 hairs on the nerves and gland-dotted beneath ; petiole 3-7 in. long ; 

 stipules lanceolate, under \ in. long, caducous. Male flowers in shore 

 axillary fascicled racemes or panicles; bracts subeoncave, orbicular, 

 laciniate, subtending numerous flowers. Stamens 2, exserted. Female 

 flowers in rather lax lateral panicles. Capsule pisiform, clothed with 



