Macaranga.] cxxii. euphorbiace^ (prain). 945 



apical glands ; stipules small, rigid, recurved. Male flowers in axillary 

 peduncled spikes ; bracts closely imbricating, strongly keeled, entire, 

 rather thick, subtending several flowers. Female flowers unknown. 



South Central. Belj^iau Congo: Ituri district; between Mawambi ami 

 Awakubi, Mildhraed, 3118 ! 



25. M. xnellifera, Prain in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 201. A tree of 

 medium size with wide branching crown ; twigs rather stout, sparingly 

 puberulous, soon becoming glabrous. Leaves long-petioled, ovate or 

 oblong, sharply acuminate, base widely and abruptly euneate or rounded^ 

 margin entire, 4-4J in. long, 2J-3 in. wide, aubcoriaceous, glabroun 

 above, copiously gland-dotted beneath and glabrous except on the lower 

 third to one-half of the 3 basal nerves, which are densely hirsute with 

 spreading hairs ; petiole 2 in. long ; stipules rather wide-lanceolate, 

 caducous, puberulous. Male flowers in axillary panicles towards the 

 end of the branches, honey-scented ; bracts small, ovate, acute, entire, 

 subtending several flowers. Stamens 15; filaments inserted on a long 

 narrow receptacle, so that the androecium simulates a central column. 

 Female flowers in axillary racemes ; bracts as in the males ; pedicels 

 solitary or in few-flowered clusters. Ovary 1-celled by abortion, crowned 

 by a single stout style-arm spreading at the base, erect at the tip, and 

 with the rudimentary style-arm adnate to the opposite side of the coccus 

 lower down, densely lepidote. Fruit unknown. 



Mozamb. Slstr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Buchanan, 1483^! 

 Rhodesia ; Cliirinda outskirts, 3700-4000 ft., Swynnerton, 5 ! 2120 ! 



2G. M. gabunica, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 104. A climbing 

 shrub with long, spreading or pendulous branches at first sparingly rusty- 

 puberulous, soon glabrous, unarmed. Leaves long-petioled, triangulai- 

 ovate, abruptly long-acuminate, base wide-truncate, margin entire, 

 4-4J in. long, 3J-4 in. wide, coriaceous, pale green and glabrous above, 

 slightly rusty-puberulous on the nerves only and gland-dotted beneath ; 

 petiole 2-2| in. long ; stipules caducous. Male flowers in small axillary 

 panicles ; their branches very short ; bracts small, densely rusty-puberu- 

 lous, subtending several flowers ; stamens 2-3. Female flowers in small 

 axillary panicles ; bracts as in the males. Calyx urceolate, margin very 

 slightly undulate. Capsule 1-coccous, 1-seeded, subglobose, densely 

 rusty-puberulous, 2-valved, tipped by the remains of the slightly 

 eccentric style, J in. in diam. 



]Lower Guinea. Gaboon: near Libreville, Klaine, 642! 643! 1152! 

 1153 ! French Congo : Niounerou, Lecomte, C9 ! 



27. M. klaineana, Pierre ex Prain in Kew Bulletin^ 1912, 104. 

 A climbing shrub ; branches sparingly armed with minute spines, 

 rusty-puberulous. Leaves petioled, ovate or elliptic, very long-acumi- 

 nate with acute tips, base rounded, margin entire, l|-3 in. long, 

 glabrous above, sparingly rusty-puberulous on the nerves and glaml- 

 dotted beneath ; petiole rusty-puberulous, J-1 in. long ; stipules linear, 

 rusty-puberulous, persistent, \-\ in. long. Male flowers in axillary 



