592 XCVIII. EUPHORBIACEiG [Macaranga 



almost continuous on the ramifications of panicle, bracts minute. Sepals 2-3 r 

 stamens 6-30. $ panicles short, fl. on short thick pedicels, bracts minute. 

 Sepals 3-4, ovary 2-celled, styles short. Capsule didymous, \ in. diani., black,, 

 glabrous with minute orbicular glands. 



Subbimalayan tract from Sikkiin eastwards, ascending occasionally to 5,000 ft., in 

 inixed forest and on grass lands. Assam. Khasi hills. Chittagong. Burma, Upper 

 and Lower." Fl. March, April, in the hills later. Exudes a clear red gum resin. 2. M.. 

 indica, Wight Ic. 1. 1883 and 1949 f . 2 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 287a. Vern. Papri, Dehra Dun. 

 Malkot hills, Dehra Dun 4-5,000 ft. Bakraich forests, on the Nepal frontier. Sikkim r 

 outer hills. Singbhuni, in damp valleys, rare. Assam. Khasi hills. Andamans. Nilgiris- 

 and other hills in the southern portion of the Peninsula. — Ceylon. A small evergreen 

 tree, often gregarious, hranchlets stout, glaucous, young shoots and young 1. tawny- 

 tomentose. L. orbicular-ovate, acuminate, usually entire, broadly peltate, glabrous- 

 above, minutely hairy or softly tomentose beneath, with numerous orbicular shining 

 scales, blade 5-12 in. diam., pet. 3-8 in. long, basal n. numerous, sec. n. from midrib- 

 6-8 pair. £ panicle branches zigzag, fl. clusters sessile, distant, usually pubescent,, 

 in the axils of a thick fleshy bract, which terminates in a quadrangular or elliptic 

 shining glandular blade, sepals 2-3, stamens 6-10. 9 panicle hairy, bracts small,, 

 sepals usually 4, ovary mostly 1-celled, densely covered with round resinous yellow 

 glands, capsule as a rule globose, J in. diam. 



(b) L. not peltate. 



3. M. pustulata, King. Vern. Mallata, Nepal. Himalaya from Kumaon eastwards,, 

 3-6,000 ft., chiefly on old clearings. A small often gregarious tree, youngest shoots- 

 rusty tomentose. L. entire, broad-ovate, base truncate, blade 4-7 in. long and often 

 broader than long, pet. as long as blade, underside pale, with numerous minute- 

 orbicular glands. 6 panicles glandular. Capsule didymous, J in. diam., densely tomen- 

 tose, each coccus with a large glabrous glandular patch on the back. 4. A sp. nearly 

 allied to 3, collected at Bernardmyo, Upper Burma 5-6,000 ft., by J. W. Oliver, £ only,, 

 has branchlets, underside of 1. and inflorescence softly tomentose. 1. ovate, slightly 

 lobed, base truncate or broadly cuneate, blade 4-8, pet. 2-4 in. long, fl. in dense clusters 

 on long interrupted racemes, pedicels short, sepals 5, J in. long, hairy on both sides, 

 stamens oo, glabrous. 5. M. gmelinsefolia, King. Kurseong 4-5,000 ft. Similar to- 

 3, base of 1. broadly cuneate, £ panicles with minute deciduous stellate hairs. 6. M. 

 Gamblei, Hook. f. Dulkajhar forest, Darjeeling terai. A small tree, 1. lanceolate,, 

 blade 3-5, pet. J-f in., orbicular glands on underside of 1. few, scattered, c5 panicles 

 pubescent. 



B. Bracts of <? fl. large, concealing the fl. clusters. 



(a) L. peltate, entire. 



7. M. Roxtrargnii, Wight Ic. t. 1949 fig. 4. — Syn. M. tomentosa, Wight Ic. 1. 1949 fig. 1; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 287 ; M. peUata, Muell. Arg. ; Pram Bengal Plants 951. Vern. Chanda,. 

 Mar. ; Upaligi, Kan. ; Vatta, Tarn. Western Ghats from the Konkan southwards, 

 common in evergreen forest. Hills of Orissa and the Oircars. — Ceylon, moist region,, 

 very common. A small or middle-sized tree, branchlets stout, youngest shoots stellate- 

 tomentose, 1. deltoid or orbicular, broadly peltate, entire or minutely toothed, basal n. 

 numerous, blade 5-10, pet. 3-8 in. long. Panicles rusty tomentose, bracts tomentose,. 

 large, dentate, veined, bracteoles concave. £ clusters enveloped in bracts and 

 bracteoles, sepals 3, stamens 2-3. 9 ovary 1-celled, style lateral. Capsule J-J in. 

 diam., covered with hairs and glands. 8. M. Tanarius, Muell. Arg. — Syn. M. mohtccana,. 

 Wight Ic. t. 816. Andamans. Nicobars. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. China. 

 Branchlets stout, young shoots and young 1. softly pubescent, bracts J-J in. long,, 

 tomentose, acute, toothed or pectinate, capsules 2-3-lobed J-i in. diam., densely covered 

 with orbicular scales, with 6-12 subulate soft bristles £ in. long. 



(6) L. not peltate. 



9. M. mimitiflora, Muell. Arg. Tenasserim. Branchlets, underside of 1. and inflor- 

 escence softly tomentose, 1. ovate, caudate-acuminate, denticulate, blade 4-6, pet. 1-2 in. 

 long, basal n. 3. Male panicles sessile, flaccid, shorter than petiole, bracts villous,, 

 ovate, pectinately toothed, J-J in. long, stamens 2. 



II. 2 fl. in few-fid. racemes, styles long and slender, 1. not peltate. 



10. M. Brandisil, King. Muleyit, Tenasserim, 2-5,000 ft. Quite glabrous, 1. lanceo- 

 late, penninerved, blade 4-5, pet. J-l in. long. Capsules didymous, with a few soft 

 bristles, in long-pedunculate 1-3-ffd. racemes, in the axils of large ovate-lanceolate- 

 leafy bracts. 



Cleidion javanicum, Blume ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 272. Vern. Vellarei, Tarn. Western Ghats; 

 from the Konkan southwards in evergreen forests. Outer hills of the eastern Himalaya 

 from Sikkim eastwards. Chittagong. Manipur. Burma, Upper and Lower. Ceylon. 



