Acalypha.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE, (J. D. Hooker.) 415 
species, of which there are fem. specimens and a good drawing in Dalzell’s Herbarium, 
but without locality. In the drawing two specimens are represented, one with an- 
drogynous spikes, each consisting of one female bract, and a very slender rachis with 
minute male flowers; the other is wholly female, and bears solitary axillary long- 
peduncled fem. bracts. 
** Fem. spikes with many bracts. 
2. A. paniculata, Miguel FI. Ind. Bat. i.i. 406 ; leaves long-petioled 
ovate acuminate, male fl. in axillary filiform long spikes, fem. fl. in axillary 
and ierminal racemes or panicles, bracts minute not enlarged in fruit. 
Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 802. A. racemosa, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 
7784; Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 449. A. Wallichiana, Thwaites Enum, 
271. A. filiformis, Heyne mss.—Rheede Hort. Mal. x. t. 83. 
DECCAN PENINSULA; from Malabar southward. CEYLON ; ascending to 3000 ft. 
—Disrrip. Java, Trop. Africa. 
An undershrub or herb, finely pubescent. Leaves 2-6 in., coarsely unequally 
crenate-serrate ; petiole 1-4 in. Male spikes solitary, 2-6 in., dense-fld.; fem. 
racemes or panicles capillary ; bracts scattered, 3-fld., ovate, obtuse, shorter than the 
pedicels, Sepals of fem. gland-ciliate, ovate-lanceolate, at length reflexed. Capsule 
vz in. diam., 3-lobed, glandular; styles 3-7-partite, Seeds reticulately pitted.— 
Mueller points out that Heyne’s unpublished name of racemosa, as taken up by 
Baillon, is the oldest, but not applicable.— Mueller has described as forma depauperata 
(Linnæa xxxiv. 8) a starved state from the Nilghiries with weak reduced axillary 
male and female inflorescence. 
3. A. fruticosa, Forsk. Fl. Æg. Arab. 161; shrubby, stem glabrous, 
leaves ovate acute or subacute crenate glabrous and glandular beneath, 
spikes axillary short, bracts of fem. few lax 1-fld. many-toothed, enlarged in 
fruit. Muell Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 822; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 397. A. 
betulina, Retz. Obs. v. 30; Thwaites Enum. 271. A. amentacea, Roxb. Fl. 
Ind. iii. 676. A. capitata, Wall. Cat. 7783 B. 
DECCAN PENINSULA, Heyne, &e. Peau, MARTABAN and Ava, Kurz. CEYLON, 
waites, &e.—DIsTRIB. Arabia, Trop. Africa. 
A strong-smelling shrub, more or less covered with yellow waxy glands; shoots 
and spikes pubescent. Leaves 1-3 in., crenate, obtuse or subacute, base usually 
acute ; petiole much shorter than the limb. Spikes 3-1 in., solitary, bracteate and 
2-bracteolate, usually male with a few fem. fl. at the base. Sepals of male pubescent. 
Ovary hairy and glandular ; styles with filiform arms. Capsules tomentose. Seeds 
smootb.— Habit of 4. alnifolia, but the stems and leaves beneath are glabrous, and 
the latter more or less glandular. I have seen no Burmese specimens. Large 
Specimens apparently of this species in male flower only, from the sea coast, Tinnevelly, 
Wight (Kew Distrib, 2619), have leayes 3 in. long, deeply crenate, the young only 
glandular beneath. 
4. A. alnifolia, Klein mss.; Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 525; shrubby, stems 
pubescent and often ciliate with long deciduous hairs, leaves ovate acute 
serrate pubescent above and usually tomentose beneath, male spikes axillary 
slender dense-fld. fem. terminal sessile capitate, bracts 1-Ad. 6-9-toothed 
longer than the Howers, styles very long fimbriate or plumose with short 
capillary branches. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 843; Baill. Etudes 
Gen. Huphorb. 442; Wall. Cat. 7782; Wight in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 
31.1.29. A. capitata, Willd. & Muell. ll. c. Wall. Cat. 7783 A. 
The DECCAN PENIN ; Heyne, &c. . 
A small shrub, eglandulan, Leaves 12 in., sometimes almost orbicular, base 
Tounded or subcordate variable in hairiness; petiole rarely half the length of the 
blade. Male spikes 1-3 in.; fem. of few obtusely lobed imbricating bracts. Sepals 
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