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in Safford’s work, but simply appears under Rumpf’s name Arbor excoecans 
with the additional statement: “Dioica triandra tricocca.” 
GLOCH I DION Forster 
GLOCH I DION MARIANUM Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 32 (1863) 65; Salford 
283. 
Phyllan.thus gaudichaudii Muell.-Arg. var marianus Muell.-Arg. in DC. 
Prodr. 15 2 (1866) 300. 
McGregor 459, 447, G. E. S. 35, 480, locally known as chosga. 
Originally described from specimens collected in Guam by Gaudichaud, 
reported also from Tonga by Mueller, with a variety from Samoa. 
JATROPHA Linnaeus 
JATROPHA CURCAS Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1006; Safford 301, pi. 55. 
McGregor 531. 
A native of tropical America, now in all tropical countries. 
JATROPHA MULTIFiDA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1006; Salford 301. 
G. E. S. 282, locally known as Santa Ana. 
Distribution of the preceding. 
MACARANGA Thouars 
MACARANGA THOMPSONIi sp. nov. § Dimorphanthera. 
Frutex vel arbor, partibus vetustioribus glabra vel subglabra; 
ramulis teretibus, laevis, circiter 1 cm diametro, partibus ju- 
nioribus adpresse villosis ; foliis alternis, late rotundato-ob- 
ovatis ad suborbicularibus, usque ad 20 cm diametro, integris, 
apice brevissime abrupte acuminatis, basi late rotundatis vel 
subtruncatis, alte peltatis, palmatim 9- vel 10-nerviis, supra 
glabris, nitidis, subtus pallidioribus, glandulosis; inflorescentiis 
S axillaribus, paniculatis, usque ad 16 cm longis, ebracteatis, 
pubescentibus ; floribus numerosis, glomeratis, sessilibus vel 
subsessilibus, staminibus circiter 5. 
A shrub or small tree, in age nearly glabrous. Branchlets 
terete, smooth, glabrous, reddish-brown, about 1 cm in diameter, 
marked with prominent petiolar scars and the scars of fallen 
stipules, about 5 mm apart, the tips rather densely appressed- 
pubescent. Leaves more or less crowded at the ends of the 
branchlets, alternate, broadly peltate, subcoriaceous, broadly 
obovate to suborbicular, 15 to 20 cm in diameter, entire, the 
apex shortly and abruptly acuminate, the base broadly rounded 
to subtruncate, palmately 9- or 10-nerved, the nerves prominent, 
the lateral nerves above the basal pair about 6 on each side of 
the midrib, the primary reticulations prominent, subparallel, 
the upper surface smooth, glabrous, shining, somewhat oliva- 
ceous-brown when dry, the lower surface much paler, with 
