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CXXVIII. EUPHORBIACEiE. 
[Macaranga. 
and published the name on in his Etudes Gen. Euphorb. p. 430. It is not 
the plant so labelled by Heyne in Wallich’s Catalogue. Pax, following Baillon, 
gave the name montana to this conspicuously lowland Malay Peninsula plant 
under the description of M. montana (Heyne), Pax and Hoffmann, l.c., but 
this name is anticipated by Merrill, and cannot stand in any case, so I have 
had to give it a new name. 
(18) M. populifolia Mull. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. (2), 1008; 
Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 450. 
A fairly large tree about 40 to 60 ft. tall with grey bark, nearly 
quite glabrous. Leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, base round, tip 
acuminate entire, coriaceous shining bright green, pale or glaucescent 
beneath; nerves 7 pairs; 3 to 4 in. long, 1*5 to 3 in. wide; petioles 
1 to 4 in. long. Male panicles axillary, -5 to *25 in. long. Bracts 
very small, ovate toothed glandular. Sepals rounded 3. Stamens 
1 or 2. Female racemes short, lengthening to 2-5 in. long in fruit. 
Capsule smooth, glandular bilobed, 2-5 in. across. Hab. Lowland 
woods and secondary jungle. Singapore, Chan Chu Kang; Gardens; 
Changi; Bukit Timah. Malacca (Griffith); Ayer Panas (Derry); 
Rellau. Selangor, Kwala Lumpur. Penang Hill (Wallich). 
Distrib. Sumatra, Borneo. Native name : Pulau Pipi. 
(19) M. Lowii King in Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 453. 
Small tree 15 to 20 ft. tall, stem 3 to 4 in. through. Leaves 
thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate; 
nerves 8 pairs; 4 to 7 in. long, 1 to 2 in. wide; petioles 2’5 in. long. 
Male racemes 3*5 in. long, tomentose. Flowers minute in distant 
clusters. Bracts triangular acuminate. Sepals orbicular. Stamens 
15 to 20; anthers 4-celled. Female peduncles 2 in. long, hairy. 
Bracts broad orbicular toothed strongly nerved. Flowers 1 to 9 
at the end of the peduncle. Sepals 6 lanceolate. Ovary spiny; 
styles long filiform. Capsules *5 to *6 in. wide, puberulous covered 
with short sharp spines. Hab. Open country, edges of forests, 
Singapore, Jurong; Tanglin; Chan Chu Kang. Malacca (Griffith); 
Hulu Chembong (Derry); Batu Tiga (Holmberg), Pahang, Gunong 
Tahan (Robinson). Perak, Larut (Kunstler). Penang Hill (Curtis 
and Wallich); Telok Bahang (Curtis). Native names: Gasseh 
Lalat; Ramin betina. 
A monstrosity in which the flowers (male) are reduced to bracts is common. 
(20) M. setosa Gage, Rec. Bot. Surv. hid. l.c. 244. 
Tree. Branchlets sparsely strigose. Leaves alternate ovate or 
oblong-ovate acuminate, base round cordate, edge shortly undulate 
glandular-dentate strigose, coriaceous glabrous above except midrib, 
beneath glaucescent strigose on the midrib; nerves 10 to 12 pairs 
with nervules prominent; 4*1 to 7 in. long, 1-75 to 3*75 in. wide; 
petioles slender strigose, 1*5 to 3-25 in. long. Stipules subulate 
aculeate, -I to 2 in. long, strigose. Male spikes solitary axillary 
slender, 1*25 to 475 in. long, puberulous and glandular. Flowers in 
heads of 10 to 12. Bracts widely lanceolate more or less pubescent 
and strigose. Calyx sub-turbinate. Sepals 3 ovate concave, 
