Macaranga.] cxxvm. euphorbiace^e. 3°5 
densely glandular outside with 2 or 3 long bristles. Stamens 10 
to 12. Female flowers and fruit unknown. Hab. Johor, Sungei 
Ulu Sembrong (Lake and Kelsall). 
Near M. Lowii, but the petioles, midrib and edges are strigose. 
56 . ENDOSPERMUM, Benth. 
Trees. Leaves alternate coriaceous round-ovate. Flowers small in 
long simple spikes or racemes, apetalous. Males clustered subsessile. 
Calyx globose, shortly 4-toothed. Stamens 6 to 10, on a cylindric 
convex receptacle, filaments short ; anthers 4~cnlled. Females 
solitary in the bracts. Calyx 5-toothed. Ovary 2- to 3-celled, 
cells i-ovuled; styles connate, forming a flat entire or 3-lobed disc. 
Fruit globose or 2- or 3-lobed indehiscent. Seeds globose. Species 
4 or 5, Indo-Malayan, China. 
Leaves thinly coriaceous pubescent beneath. 
Leaves or bicular, base rounded grey beneath; 
nervules closely parallel numerous . . . (1) E. malaccense 
Leaves ovate narrowed at base, scurfy beneath . (2) E. ovalifolium 
Leaves stiffly coriaceous shining ovate cordate . . (3) E. perakense 
(1) E. malaccense Mull. Arg. in Flora xlvii. 469; in DC. 
Prod. xv. (2), 1132; Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 458. 
A big stout tree 80 ft. tall, stem 2 ft. through, bark smooth, 
grey; branchlets stout, young parts mealy pubescent. Leaves 
orbicular-ovate, base broad, slightly cordate and peltate, with a 
pair of glands at the insertion of the petiole, above glabrous when 
adult, beneath puberulous; nerves about 4 pairs, elevate beneath, 
nervules and reticulations prominent; 4-5 to 5 in. long, 3*5 to 4-5 in. 
wide; petioles 2 in. long. Male racemes 3-5 to 6 in. long, slender, 
pubescent, often shortly branched at the base. Flowers yellow 
very fragrant sessile, 1 to 3 together. Bracts shorter ovate pubescent. 
Calyx turbinate, 3-lobed. Stamens 9 to 12. Female flowers 
larger. Calyx tubular pubescent. Ovary longer oblong, -i in. 
long. Fruit globose green, -2 in. through, hoary. Hab. Common in 
low country forests. Malacca (Griffith, Maingay); Sungei Hudang 
(all collectors); Ayer Panas (Derry). Negri Sembilan, Bukit 
Talan (Cantley). Selangor, Kwala Lumpur. Dindings, Pangkor. 
Perak, Batang Padang and Larut (Kunstler); B’landa Mabok and 
Thaiping (Wray). Penang, Penara Bukit. Native names : Bebaru 
Bukit; Sendok-Sendok; Sesundo. Use : The soft white wood is 
used for making clogs. 
The leaves are commonly stated to have no glands at the insertion of 
the petiole on the underside; they are, however, not uncommonly present, 
but by no means always so. In the tree from Kwala Lumpur, Damansara 
Hill, the nerves beneath are distinctly hairy. 
(2) E. ovalifolium Pax, Pflanzenreich, l.c. 34. 
Big tree. Leaves slightly thinner than in E. malaccense , ovate 
narrowed to the base, sub-acute, base minutely cordate, glabrous 
FI.M.P., 3 - X 
