450 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Macaranffa. 



A tree, 30-40 ft. ; branches stout, glabrous to the tips. Leaves 8-12 in. across 

 the lateral lobes, dark brown above, eglandular at the concave cordate base, beneath 

 paler with strong nerves and slender cross-nervules which bear long spreading straight 

 hairs, glands invisible ; lobes very broad, distantly minutely toothed; petiole 3-5 in. ; 

 stipules very large, reniform, glabrous, reflexed but not revolute. Male panicle 12 

 14 in. ; bracts at the axils glabrous, floral in. long, 5-6-fld. ; flowers ^ in. ; sepals 

 membranous, pubescent, eglandular. Fern panicle much shorter, with shorter stouter 

 brandies; flowers shortly pedicelled ; calyx 3-4-lobed; ovary clothed with yellow 

 waxy glands. 



ftf Leaves not pelf ate, triple-nerved, deltoid -ovate, not loked. 



14. HI. minutiflora, Muell. Arg. in Flora (1864) 466, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 1012; brancblets leaves "beneath and panicles finely torn entose, 

 leaves deltoid-ovate from a broadly cuneate base caudate-acuminate denticu- 

 late, male panicles sessile shorter than the petioles, bracts ovate pectinately 

 toothed villous eglandular, flowers villous, stamens 2. Jurz For. FL ii. 

 388. M. Helferi, Muell. Arg. in DC. I c. 1004. 



TENASSERIM, Heifer. 



A shrub (Jwrz) ; branches slender, terete ; pubescence fulvous. Leaves 4-6 by 

 3-4 in., rather membranous, above greyish and minutely stellately pubescent, witn 

 pubescent nerves and eglandular base ; beneath glandular, with 4-5 pair of slender 

 nerves above the basal and slender cross-nervules and reticulations ; petiole 1^-2 in. ; 

 stipules lanceolate, tomentose. Male panicles with very slender rachis and branches ; 

 floral bracts - in., eglandular; flowers -^ in.; sepals villons, cuneate. The leaves 

 of Mueller's M. Helferi are rather more tomentose beneath than of M. minutiflora, 

 but I find no other difference. Perhaps this is only a state of the following ; the 

 fruit is unknown. 



15. UK. trichocarpa, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1003; 

 branchlets leaves beneath and panicles finely tomentose, leaves ovate or 

 deltoid-ovate acuminate denticulate scaberulous above, panicles very short, 

 bracls large ovate pectinately toothed glandular and villous within, fern, 

 panicles few- fid., capsule 2-lobed clothed with soft bristly white prickles. 

 Ma.ppa trichocarpa, JReicJib. fy Zoll. Bottler. 8 ; Zolling. in Linncea xxviii. 

 307 : Miguel FL Ind. Sat. i. ii. 402. M. Zollinaeri, Miguel I. c. Suppl. 457. 

 M. borneensis, Muell. Arg. in DC. L c. Wall. Cat. 7831. 



PEBAK, Scortechini. SINGAPOBE, Walli<h, Hullctt, King's Collector. MALACCA, 

 Seemnnn. - DISTRIB. Sumatra, Malay Islands, Cochin China. 



Branches rather slender, terete ; tips and young leaves villous. Leaves 4-6 by 

 2-3 in., rather rigid, above greyish, puberulous on the norves and stellately scaberu- 

 lous between them and sometimes 2-glandular at the petiole, beneath yellowish or brown, 

 glandular and simply pubescent ; petiole velvety, 1-2| in. ; stipules lanceolate, 

 villous. Male panicles 1-1 -5 in., subsessile, rachis and short branches sessile; floral 

 bracts \ in. long, membranous, veined, gland-dotted, with a villous pad at the base 

 within in my specimen. Fern. fl. 2-3, eubsrssile at the top of a short peduncle; 

 calyx elongate urceolate, acutely 4-5-fid ; stvles small. Capsule % in. across the 

 corci, which are thinly crustaceous. Seeds globose, black, rugose. 1 have seen no 

 flowers. Mueller describes the stipules as broad and obtuse. The simple fern, 

 inflorescence is that of the following section. 



tfft Leaves not peltate, ovate or oblong. 



16. m. populifolia, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1006; nearly 

 glabrous, leaves long-petioled ovate or ovate-oblong acuminate quite entire 

 brown and glaucous beneath, male panicles very short and shortly pednncled, 

 bracts small very broad toothed acuminate glandular, flowers glabrous, 



