Macaranga.] 
CXXVIII. EUPHORBIACE^E. 
297 
55. MACARANGA, Thouars 
Trees of no great size or shrubs. Leaves alternate usually 
large and often peltate entire or lobed. Flowers in axillary racemes 
or branched; panicles apetalous. Male flowers many in clusters, 
minute. Calyx globose or obovoid; sepals 3 or 4 valvate. Stamens 
few, 1 or more; filaments flexuous; anthers 3- or 4-celled, cells 
more or less bivalved. No pistillode. Female flowers one or few 
in a large or small often toothed bract. Calyx 2- to 4-lobed or 
toothed. Ovary 1- to 6-celled, cells i-ovuled. Styles entire. 
Capsules small of 1 to 5 bivalved cocci, naked or spiny, usually 
glandular or viscid waxy. Seeds globose. Species 160, Old World. 
Native name for the genus : Mahang. 
i. Gigante^. Leaves peltate deeply lobed, palmate-nerved. Stipules 
lanceolate erect, caducous. Bracts toothed. Stamens 1 to 3, rarely 4; 
anthers 4-celled. Ovary 2-celled. Capsule smooth. 
Leaves very large; shoots not glaucous; stamens 1 to 3 (1) M. megalophylla 
Leaves moderate; shoots glaucous; stamens 2 . (2) M. Maingayi 
ii. PruinosjE. Leaves peltate, palmate-nerved, coriaceous. Stipules 
broad, reniform reflexed persistent. Bracts toothed. Stamens 1 to 3, 
rarely 4; anthers 4-celled. Ovary 2- to 5-celled. Capsule smooth. 
Leaves trilobed coriaceous. 
Leaves not white beneath, trilobed nearly to base ; 
to base; stamens 2 . 
Leaves not white beneath, shortly trilobed; 
stamen 1 . 
Leaves glaucescent beneath, trilobed half way; 
stamens 4 ..... 
Leaves white beneath, trilobed nearly to base; 
stamen 1 ..... 
Leaves 3- to 5-lobed shortly, not coriaceous. 
Leaves 5-lobed; fruit rounded not homed 
Leaves trilobed denticulate peltate; fruit homed 
Leaves trilobed sinuate and incised, not peltate . 
Leaves entire coriaceous; stamens 2 or 3. 
Leaves denticulate ...... 
Leaves very stiff quite entire .... 
Leaves entire thin. 
Fruit shortly homed ..... 
Fruit quite smooth ..... 
Leaves entire peltate, not coriaceous. 
Stamens 4 to 6; floral bracts large toothed 
Stamens 10 to 12; panicles spreading; bracts 
minute ...... 
Leaves entire not peltate, ovate, base broad. 
Scandent shrub; capsules covered with stinging 
hairs ...... 
Trees; capsules glabrous. 
Leaves red beneath; floral bracts large toothed 
Leaves grey or green beneath; floral bracts small 
Leaves lanceolate narrowed to base, coriaceous; 
capsule with long processes. 
Leaves entirely glabrous .... 
Petiole, edge and midrib strigose 
(3) M. Hosei 
(4) M, triloba 
(5) M Griffithiana 
(6) M. hypoleuca 
(7) M. Kingii 
(8) M. quadricomis 
(9) M. incisa 
(10) M. Curtisii 
(11) M. recurvata 
{12) M. Hullettii 
(13) M. puncticulata 
(14) M. tanaria 
(15) M. denticulata 
(16) M. trichocarpa 
(17) M. robiginosa 
(18) M. populifolia 
(19) M. Lowii 
(20) M. setosa 
