Macaranga.'] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 447 



beneath puberulous or softly tomentose and gland-dotted, with 6-8 pairs of nerves 

 above the basal, and cross- nervules ; petiole 6-12 in., glabrous, glaucous; stipules 

 broadly ovate, acuminate, recurved. Male panicles with a glaucous peduncle and 

 rusty-tomentose branches ; clusters of flowers remote ; floral bracts very broad, 

 concave, or broader and flat, not concealing the flowers ; glandular appendages ^ in. 

 long ; flowers -^ in. diam. ; sepals obovate, membranous, pubescent. Fern, panicle* 

 smaller, bracts glandular ; flowers pedicelled ; calyx 4-cleft ; styles equalling the globose 

 glabrous waxy ovary. Capsule very small, rarely didymous. Ceylon specimens have 

 normally didymous very small capsules, with the central axis often persistent as an 

 elliptic disk. Wight's M. flexuosa, of which no specimen exists, is, I think, only 

 M. indica with larger bracts of the male fl. than usual. 



6. BX. perakensis, Hook.f.\ leaves 3-4 in. diam. deltoid-ovate cuspi- 

 date base rounded peltate palmately 7-9-nerved minutely hoary beneath, 

 male panicles very slender subtomentose, stamens 10-12, styles short recurved, 

 capsules small didymous clothed with waxy glands. 



PERAK, Scortechini. 



JBranchlets woody, puberulous, not glaucous, tips and young leaves rnsty-tomentose. 

 Leaves much smaller than in M. indica, membranous, glabrous and brown above with 

 2-3 glands at the base above, pale beneath, with 8-10 pair of nerves above the basal ; 

 petiole 2-3 in. hoary ; stipules small, subulate, rusty-tomentose. Male paniclet 

 like those of M. denticulata, but smaller ; bracts at the base of the branches lanceolate, 

 floral very minute, rounded; flowers -^ in. diam.; sepals 3-4, pubescent, hardly 

 glandular. Fruiting racemes 1-1^ in. Capsule % in. diam. 



** Floral bracts of male large, often toothed, concealing clusters of 

 flowers. 



t Leaves peltate entire. (See also M. megalophylla.} 



7. M. Tanarius, MuelL Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 997; leaves 

 broadly peltate ovate or deltoid or orbicular-ovate acuminate or cuspidate 

 sinuate- toothed, base rounded or cordate palmately nerved glabrous pubes- 

 cent or tomentose beneath, bracts small toothed or pectinate, stamens 5-6, 

 fern. fl. loosely panicled or racemed, styles slender subulate, capsules 2-3- 

 lobed sparingly softly prickly. Kurz For. FL ii. 388. M. molliuscula, 

 Kurz mss. Mappa Tanarius & tomentosa, Blume Bijd. 624 ; Zolling. in 

 Linnaa xxviii. 307. M. Tanaria, Spreng. Syst. iii. 878; MiquelFl. Ind. Bat. 

 i. ii. 401 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 304. M. glabra, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. t. 14, 

 f. 44. M molnccana, Wight Ic. t. 816 (excl. syn.)\ Benth. in Hook. Journ 

 Bot. ii. (1843) 233 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 456. Eottlera Tanaria & 

 tomentosa, Hassk. Cat. Hart. Bogor. 238. E. integrifolia, Herb. Ham. Ei- 

 cinus Tanarius, Linn. Sp. PI. Ed. ii. 1430. E. Mappa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 690. 

 Croton lacciferus, Blanco Flor. Filip. Ed. ii. 517 (not of Linn.). Wall 

 Cat. 7810, E, F. 



ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. PEBAK, Wray. MALACCA, Maingay. DISTBIB. 

 Malay Archipelago. 



A small tree; branch lets stout, glaucous, tips and young leaves softly pubescent. 

 Leaves 6-24 in. long, sometimes as broad, membranous, glabrous or puberulous above 

 or on both surfaces, glandular or not above at the insertion of the petiole ; nerves 6-8 

 pair above the basal, strong beneath; petiole 4-8 in., glaucous; stipules i in. long, 

 broadly ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, back pubescent. Male panicles long- 

 peduncled, slender, branched; bracts - in., acute, eglandular, rarely entire- 

 flowers -Jjy in. diam.; sepals 3-4, membranous, glabrous. Fem.jl. in usually simply 

 panicled spikes or racemes. Ovary hispid ; styles larger than the carpels. Cap- 

 sule size of a large pi a, clothed with waxy glands. Seeds globose, rough. Roxburgh 

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