Macaranga.] cxxii, euphorbiace^ (prain). 941 



17. M. Daweiy Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 232. A small tree ; 

 branches puberulous. Leaves short-petioled, lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, base wide-cuneate or rounded, margin shortly but 

 distinctly and irregularly toothed or occasionally subentire, 2^-4 in. 

 long, f-1 in. wide, chartaceous, glabrous, glandular-lepidote beneath ; 

 petiole J-J in. long, puberulous ; stipules lanceolate, J in. long or less, 

 rusty-puberulous, caducous. Male flowers in small lateral spikes J-J in. 

 long; bracts small, ovate, acute, entire, subtending several flowers; 

 buds globose, minute, pubescent. Stamens 5-12 ; filaments united 

 irregularly below, free above. Female flowers unknown. 



Wile Iiand. Uganda : by the Mubuka River, on the lower slopes of Ruwen- 

 zori, Dawe, 595 ! 



A very distinct species; in all other respects a Macaranga, but with stamens 

 resembling those of a Homonoia. 



18. M. pierreana, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 105. A shrub or 

 tree ; branches quite glabrous. Leaves long-petioled, ovate, shortly 

 acuminate, base rounded, margin entire, G in. long, 4 in. wide, glabrous 

 except on the nerves, gland-dotted beneath ; petiole 5-6 in. long ; 

 stipules caducous. Male flowers in small ovate strobilitorm heads termi- 

 nating the branches of a long lax axillary panicle ; bracts obovate, sub- 

 acute, entire, subtending several flowers ; buds globose. Female flowers 

 in large axillary panicles. Capsule globose, 1-coccous ; pedicels long. 



]Lower Guinea. Gaboon : Siena del Crystal, Klaine I near Libreville, 

 Klaine, 1151 ! 



19. M. Poggeiy Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 94. A tree or shrub ; 

 branches at first fulvous-pubescent. Leaves long-petioled, ovate, shortly 

 acuminate, base rounded or subtruncate, margin entire, 4-6 in. long, 

 2-3 in. wide, glabrous except on the nerv^es beneath, gland-dotted 

 beneath ; petiole 3-4 in. long ; stipules caducous. Male flowers in 

 short axillary panicles ; bracts ovate-oblong, acuminate, incised-toothed, 

 subtending several flowers ; buds globose. Female flowers in axillary 

 corymbose simple or sparingly branched racemes ; bracts as in the 

 males. Calyx minute, lobed. Capsule globose or subdidymous ; 

 pedicels very long. — Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 246 ; Th. & 

 Hel. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 496. 



Soutb Central. Belgian Congo : Mukenge, Po^^e, 1387 ! 

 Var. Chevalieri, Prain. Leaf-base siibcordate. — M. Chevalieri, Beille in BolL 

 Soc. Bot. France, Ivii. Mem. viii. 125. 



Xower Guinea. French Congo : Brazzaville, Chevalier, 11100 ! 



20. M. Gilletii, De Wild. Etudes FL Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 276, 

 t. 73. A tree or perhaps a shrub ; branches armed with spines, at first 

 pubescent, at length glabrous. Leaves petioled, elliptic-ovate, rather 

 long-acuminate, base rounded or faintly subcordate, margin entire, 

 3-4J in. long, nearly as wide, glabrous except on the nerves on both 

 surfaces ; petiole J-lf in. long ; stipules lanceolate, caducous. Male 

 flowers in rather lax fascicled axillary panicles ; bracts concave, wide- 



