388 EUPHORBIACES, { Macaranga. 
cular-ovate or ovate, peltate at the rounded or rarely slightly truncate 
many-nerved base, on a glabrescent petiole 3 to 6 in. long, shortly 
acuminate, almost coriaceous, $-1 ft. long and nearly as broad, 
entire or slightly repand-toothed, glabrous above, shortly but 
softly pubescent and brown-gland-dotted beneath ; flowers minute, 
the males sessile in dense clusters, supported by a linear bract 
bearing a large disk-shaped gland (looking like a lichen-apothecium) 
and subulately appendaged, the female fl on rather long pedicels, 
supported by similar linear bracts with a terminal gland, but with- 
out the appendage, both sexes forming rusty or tawny-puberulous, 
more or less glabrescent, short-peduncled panicles in the axils of 
the leaves and above the scars of the fallen ones; stamens 8-5; 
ovary usually l-celled, glandular, the style subulate, flexuose ; 
capsules 1-coccous, reniform-globular, the size of a pepper-kernel or 
somewhat larger, unarmed, fugaceously glandular 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the Andaman Islands.—Fl. 
May.—s.—SS, = SiS. Metam. 
Remarxs.—Exudes a red resin similar to that of M. denticulata. 
appressedly hispid, 2-3-celled; styles 2, subulate; capsules 3-2- 
coccous, the size of alarge pea, yellowish-resinous-glanded, sparingly 
beset with long, subulate, soft prickles. ae 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the Andamans.— Fl. Apr-— 
s.—SS. = Metam. SiS. 
. Remarxs.—Exudes a reddish resin. - 
4 M. minutiflora, Muell. Arg—A shrub, all softer parts more 
or less shortly pubescent; leaves more or less ovate, not peltatey 
