EUPHORBIACEAE 295 



ovate to broadly ovate, 5 to 16 cm long, base broad, rounded or slightly 

 cordate, 3-nerved, apex somewhat acuminate, margins entire or somewhat' 

 repand, the lower surface with numerous, small, pale-yellow, waxy glands. 

 Male inflorescence axillary, racemose, solitary, fi to 18 cm long, the flowers 

 fascicled, ebracteolate, pale-yellow. Capsules depressed-globose, about 

 1.2 cm in diameter, densely pale-stellate-puberulent, and with scattered, 

 soft, pubescent, spine-like processes or papillae which do not form a con- 

 tinuous covering. (Fl. Filip. pi. Ssl, Adelia papillaris.) 



In dry thickets, Guadalupe and opposite San Pedro Macati. fl. May 

 and probably in other months; of local occurrence in Luzon. Endemic. 



17. MACARANGA Thouars 



Trees or shrubs with ample, alternate, entire or lobed, often peltate 

 leaves which are glandular beneath, 3- to 5-nerved from the base. Flowers 

 apetalous, small, usually dioecious, in axillary racemes or in panicles, 

 the males many, clustered, the females one or few to each bract; bracts 

 often large, entire or toothed. Male flowers: Calyx globose, «dth 3 or 

 4 valvate sepals. Stamens usually many, central; anthers^- or 4-celled. 

 Female flowers: Calyx 2- to 4-lobed or toothed. Ovary 1- to 6-celled; 

 styles entire; ovules 1 in each eell. Capsules of 1 to 6, 2-valved, naked 

 or armed cocci, often waxy-glandular. (From the Madagascar name of 

 one species.) 



Species more than 100, in the tropics of the Old World, 10 or more in 

 the Philippines. 



Leaves less than 25 cm long; capsules waxy-glandular^ 1. M. tanarius 



Leaves up to 1 m in length; capsules glabrous 2. M.- grandifolia 



1. M. tanarius (L.) Muell.-Arg. Binonga (Tag.). 



A small dioecious tree 4 to 8 m high, nearly glabrous or in the var. 

 tomentoaa Muell.-Arg. softly pubescent,' the leaves peltate, ovate to oblong- 

 ovate, 10 to 26 cm long, entire or denticulate, base rounded, apex slenderly 

 acuihinate. Male flowers peduncled, slender, brjinched, shorter than the 

 I«aves, the bracts ovate, toothed or pectinate, 6 to 10 mm long, the flowers 

 small, fascicled in the axils of the bracts. , Female flowers in usually 

 simple panicled spikes or racemes. Capsules 10 to 12 mm in diameter, 

 of 2 or 3 cocci, covered with pale waxy glands, and with soft, scattered, 

 elongated, spine-like processes. 



In thickets, Pasay, San Juan del Monte, etc., fl. Jan.-Apr.; common 

 and widely distributed in the Philippines. Malay Peninsula and Archi- 

 pelago. 



2. M. grandifolia (Blanco) Merr. (M. porteana E. Andre). Bingabing 



(Tag.). 



An erect, nearly glabrous or somewhat pubescent tree 5 to 10 m high 

 with very large, peltate, orbicular-ovate to broadly-ovate, long-petioled 

 leaves which are often reddish when young, 60 to 100 cm in diameter; 

 stipules 6 to 10 cm long. Male flowers panicled, the bracts oblong to 

 lanceolate, 3 to 6 cm long, the bracteoles entire, ovate to lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 3 to 7 mm long, each subtending several small flowers. Cap* 

 sules long-pedicelled, in dense globose mass.es, glabrous, 8 to 10 mm long, 

 of 2 dehiscent, coriaceous cocci, each valve armed with 2 spine-like processes 

 at the apex. 



Occasionally cultivated, Singalon, fl. Feb., and probably in other months; 

 widely distributed in Luzon. Endemic. 



