Mncamnga,'] 



80. EUPIIOKBIACEiB. 



817 



Sikkim Himalaya to Burma, Penaiig and tlio Andamans, Western 

 PcninBula from the Konkan to Travancore. Everfp:'een forests of the 

 Koukau and North Kanara, common in the Ainshi ghat forests. FI, 

 Oct. -Dec. Fr. Jan. -Feb. A moderate sized tree. Bark grey, rough 

 with a powdery surface of small raised corky cells ; inner bark thick, 

 yellowish, hard. Wood white or yellowish, rather heavy, close-grained, 

 hbrous, soft, not durable. Used in Madras for building purposes. Gamble. 



27. MACARANGA, Thouars. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, large, peltate, entire or lobed, 

 more or less glandular beneath, 3-5-basal nerved ; stipules large, deci- 

 duous. Flowers dioicious, in panicles, racemes or sp)ikes. Males 

 many, clustered ; females 1 or few under each bract j bracts large, 

 entire or toothed. Male fl. Calyx globose, sepals 3-4, valvate. 

 Petals and disk wanting. Stamens 1 or more, central, on a convex 

 receptacle ; anthers peltately attached, 3-4-celled. Fern. fl. Calyx 

 2-4-lobed or toothed ; styles entire. Ovary 2-6-celled, cells 1-ovuled. 

 Fruit a small l~5-celled, often waxy-glandular capsule. Seeds 

 globose j albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. 



Male bracts with a glandular appendage ; female 



bracts without glands. Stamens 6-8 ... 3. indica, 



Male bracts broad, toothed, tomentose ; smaller 



in the female. Stamens 2-3 ... 2, M, EoxhurgMu 



1. M. indica, Wight, Ic. t. 1883 and 1949, f. 2 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 446 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 287. 



From the Konkan southwards. Fl. Br. I. ; very common in the 

 western forests of the Madras Presidency," Beddome. Not seen by me m 

 Korth Kanara, probably not a species of the Bombay Presidency. 



A small evergreen tree. Bark^grey, thin, smooth. Wood grey, moder- 

 ately hard (Gamble). 



2. M. Roxburghii, Wight Ic. t. 1949, f. 4; Fl. Br. I. 5. 448 ; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 228. M. tomentosa, Beddome. Fl. Sylv. t. 287. 

 Chanda, Vern. ; Chandorh Kon. ; Chandkal, K. ; Chandoda, M. 



Deccan peninsula ; in the Circars and on the ghats from the Konkan 

 southwards to Travancore, Ceylon. Throughout the moist forests of the 

 Konkan and North Kanara, very common. Fl. Feb.-March. Fr. April- 

 May. 



A large tree, bark dark grey, nearly smooth with scattered corky masses 

 of cells ; inner bark bright red with white patches of tissue. Wood grey 

 or reddish, smooth, soft, close-grained. Pores moderate-sized or small, 

 often divided. Medullary rays very fine, numerous, indistinct. Weighs 

 42 lbs. to the cub. ft. A light crimson-coloured gum exudes from cuts 

 and wounds in the stem, used for taking impressions of coins, &c. 

 ' Wood rejected as firewood by the Southern Mahratta Railway Company. 



