- EUPHORBIACER. [ Alchornea, 
3-coccous, the cocci of the size of a small pea, minutely appressed- 
pubescent, glabrescent. 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim ; tropical forests of the Andamans.—Fl. Apr. 
2. A. tiliefolia, Muell. Arg.—An evergreen shrub, the young 
shoots puberulous ; leaves broadly ovate to ovate-rhomboid, acute or 
almost truncate, and spuriously 2-stipuled at the 3- or almost 5- 
nerved base, bearing | to 3 large flat glands in the lowest nerve- 
axils, shortly acuminate, on a puberulous glabrescent petiole 1-3 in. 
long, repand-toothed, 4-6 in. long, thin-chartaceous, while young 
puberulous, soon glabrescent, except on the nerves beneath ; flowers 
small, the males clustered, in slender, puberulous, interrupted spikes 
arising by 2-3 from the axils of the leaves or from above the scars’ 
of the fallen ones, the females on very short, thick, densely puber- 
ulous pedicels or almost sessile, forming simple terminal spikes or 
the lower flowers often collected into short, lateral, involucred spike- 
lets; ovary shortly tomentose and minutely muricate, the styles 
long, simple, connate at the base; capsules oblong, 8-coccous, 
almost sessile, or the lower ones spuriously peduncled, lenticellate- 
muricate and indistinctly puberulous, about 4 in. long, crowned 
with the long styles. ; 
Has.—Tenasserim or Andamans. 
MACARANGA, Pet. Thouars. 
_ _Flowers dioecious. Calyx in males valvate, in females imbricate 
in bud. Petals and disk wanting. Stamens usually fewer than 15, 
rarely 1-3 only, inserted on a central, convex or plano-convex re- 
ceptacle; anthers almost peltately dorsifix, $-4-celled, the connec- 
tive incomplete, shorter than the cells. Ovary-rudiment none. 
Ovary 6-2-celled, with a single ovule ineach cell. Capsule dry or 
coriaceous, 6-2-coccous, armed or unarmed. Seeds albuminous, 
without a spermaphore ; cotyledons broad, much longer than the 
radicle.—Trees or shrubs, with alternate, often peltate, simple leaves. 
Flowers in panicles, racemes or spikes, rarely in involucred long- 
peduncled heads. 
Leaves ample, broadi ; 
x Female flowers veer ae oe png in 
icelled. Inflorescence a panicle. 
. M. denticulata. 
- wanting : oe -coccous M, Indica. 
